Neil Myers Books

I have a copy of Neil Myers's book Myers and Neighbors of Jeffries Creek, SC. A number of genealogical discoveries are published for the first time in this book, each well-documented. The history begins with the earliest known land grants to Myerses in South Carolina in the 1730s, continues in South Carolina through the Revolution in Darlington and Marion Counties, and follows later generations as they move in the early 1800s into Georgia, Alabama, and some of them on westward.

I saw this book in a store decided to order it on Amazon. It has a wonderful presentation of the drinks and easy to follow instructions. Most of the drinks at those that are very trendy right now. It is the ultimate book to have if you are entertaining. Beautiful pictures are exactly what the drink will look like! It is the one book that I have bought in the past year that I use all the time. It also makes an excellent conversation piece. Everyone picks it up and takes a recipe from it. I have bought several as gifts and usually give it with a bottle of my favorite alcohol. Makes a really nice gift.

I found this book to be a great addition to my poker library. Not only does it go over important situations that you run into every day in NL hold'em but it gives you specific in game situations and then grades you on your responses. Highly recommended.

I have read many, many books on poker. I think Neil's book on no limit is one of the best. I have read Sklansky and all the others who go way beyond most people's comprehension of material. Usually I just ended up more confused with a whole lot more info than I needed to play competitive poker. Let's face it, most people are not playing at these guys level and don't need all the confusion. Neil shows how to play everyday poker with real everyday players, most of which will know less than you after reading his books. Practical,down to earth playing advice that will get you a lot more wins. I also highly reccommend his book on tournament play that has already got me further in most fast structured tourneys that I play online. Looking forward to more from him.

The book covers some basic hands. There is nothing earth shattering in Neil Myers' commentary on the hands. The DVD is mind numbingly boring and unwatchable. It seems to cover the same hands he goes over in the book.

Hi,

I have read almost 12 books on Texas Hold'em and I believe this is one of the best. If you play five to ten hours a month and have less then one year under your belt, this book is for you. It's easy reading and has many real hand examples that will have you saying wow! I never thought about that. It will give you more confidence at the table then you had before reading this book.

The video disc that comes with this book is another great idea by Neil Myers. It shows and talks about many items in the book and gives you a different mode of learning other then straight reading.

I fully recommend this book.


Michael Shasho

p.s if you google my name you will see that I am an active Hold'em player

I have many MANY limit books and a good number of NL books so this is certainly not the first OR last NL book I will purchase.

What I like is that this explains hands and how to play in certain situations that other books miss. The price tag is perfect as a fill in book between many of the higher prices books that are loaded with info but somethings get to technical.

I guess you could call this a beer and pretzel book. You don't have to sit down in a quite room and study it, you can pick it up and look at hands and see how OTHERS play.

From a limit player that has played over 1 million hands of limit and am switching - it's a perfect fill in book.

Neil Myers book Tourney Holdem Hand by Hand helped me fill in the blanks that I was missing when it comes to this type of game. Being an avid and profitable low stakes S&G player for years, I never did well with multi table tourneys and I never understood why. Now I do.

The importance of position, stack size, and card value take on a whole new set of rules. You can be the best Cash or S&G player in the world, but unless you read this book and comprehend it, you will not do well in a Tourney. Learn from the best to become the best.

Neil explains the different strategies necessary to come out on top and continues by bringing out the reality of winning these type of games as well as how they can and will be profitable. In a sense, you need to be able to think and act much faster than before if you have never played in a Multi Table game successfully. He points out when and how you should act and against whom based on all the factors of the game at that time.

The flow of the book is consistent and even, making is a great read. You can tell that much thought and logic was put into the layout and format design as he doesn't jump from subject to subject randomly. I would suggest this book for ANYONE who wants to shift gears in their game play from other forms of Holdem.

This book is a must read if you play fast tourneys online. The blinds raise so fast you have to have the aggressive style that Neil Myers suggests in this excellent book. I highly reccommend all his books.

This is my second Neil Myers book. I bought his first poker book a few years ago.

I like this book. In fact, I tend to reread this book (which is easy to do because it is so short) fairly often. I think Neil does a pretty good job of emphasizing a different approach to fast paced MTTs.

I bought Arnold Snyder's book first...and their ideas are fairly similiar. Arnold's book...The Poker Tournament Formula is very good. And I appreciate Neil acknowledging Arnold's book in his own.

The first 15 pp or so...is useful...but you can easily skim through these rather quickly...although I did appreciate him sharing his poker playing history...which led him to develop his approach to fast structure MTTs. The idea he seems to convey is...you have to figure out what works for you...even if this means you disagree with the conventional wisdom offered by poker legends like Sklansky or Malmuth (which he obviously does). Frankly, I found this kind of attitude inspiring and refreshing.

I tend to focus on the various hand samples...which he divides into stack, position and card problems. I reread them to absorb the thought process behind the decisions he advocates. For example, I usually review the stack size section...in particular...to understand and remember the stack size situations that he suggests puts you into an all-in-mode. You may or may not agree with some of his examples such as A-Qo, middle position and 22 BBs...all-in push.

Bottom line...I think this book...if you're dissatisfied with your tournament results...provides you with another approach/strategy to playing fast MTTs...which may help you if you're looking to change your game.

disclaimer: Neil Myers is a very casual business acquaintenance of mine.



standtall

Hello i thought i would write a review on this book after all it has helped me make over $15k in online tournaments.
I have a very big poker book collection i have every thing on cash games and tournament play and i must say THIS BOOK is the best i have!!!

The book will guide you in every part of the tournament from start to finish and deals with what hands to play and what position to play them in and how to deal with all the situations and stack size.

This book is for fast structured Mtt's like the ones online with 15 min blinds but truth be told you can apply the tools you will learn to tournaments with as low as 10 min blinds.
At first i thought the starting hands were a bit loose but i have to admit now after applying them they work and work well.

Since reading this book i have made 11 final tables and cashed in 28 other tournaments and cashing in over 15k in prize money.

If you want to be a winner in these tournaments then this book is a 100% must lay down your Dan Harrington books lay down your David Sklansky books THIS BOOK is the real deal.

if i could give it more stars i would.

This book was written by a fan of Arnold Snyder's Poker Tournament Formula. Skip this book and just buy Arnold's which is excellent.

I'm glad to have had it and read it, but if I were picking an initial book on limit poker, I would look elsewhere. There are a few sloppy mistakes, and the level of sophistication is fairly simple. However, it is an excellent choice for someone who wants to play limit at a casino or at certain on-line sites, that wants a fairly quick easy read.

6-14-07 Apparently 2 of 3 readers "don't get it" so I'll try to be more explicit and succinct.

You'll benefit from reading - no studying - this book if:
(1a) You sometimes find yourself holding a hand that you have no idea how to play.
(2a) You frequently figure out how you should have played the hand after it is over.
(3a) You are a losing or marginal player.
(4a) Your game would benefit from some careful analysis and thought about how to play hands.

You'll hate the book if:
(1b) You are a "hands-on" type of person and think the best way to learn is "by doing" because experience is the best teacher.
(2b) You are looking for a formula that will magically turn you into a winner.
(3b) You would rather be "at the table" than to spend part of your poker time thinking about and learning from your experiences.
(4b) You think it would be a waste of time to record key hands in a journal along with notes on both how they were played and how, after careful analysis, you think they should have been played.


My observations indicate that the majority of new players are probably doomed to forever remain weak because of 3b.


--- Original Review ---
I wanted to give this book 4 1/5 stars but half stars aren't allowed. My reason for wanting to give less than the maximum is that I disagree with some of the analysis. The reason I gave the maximum is that the book does for the reader what the reader should be doing for himself/herself.

Under pressure at the table a player should have a ready plan for any hand that comes up. Most of us are far too lazy or too addicted to the action at the table to think through and write up our own analysis of key hands. But Myers has done it for us with 52 hands chosen from Pre-Flop, Flop, Turn, River, and Shorthanded play.

The reader who approaches each of these 52 example hands thoughtfully and analytically cannot help but emerge a better player.

Today it is often said that Internet players learn more quickly than the old pros because they can see so many hands in such a short time. I think this thinking is horribly wrong. In the "good old days" players such as the trio of Doyle Brunson, Sailor Roberts, and Amarillo Slim saw many fewer hands. But they THOUGHT about those hands, and on the long drive from one game to the next they discussed how hands should be played. One can hardly imagine the benefit of those discussions on Brunson's career. The thing missing in too many players today is precisely that thought and discussion. Myers does some of that for us.

It is apparent that too many players - primarily young players who "learned" on the Internet - have spent far too little time THINKING about how/why to play a particular hand. If this book were required reading before setting down at the table poker might again become a game of knowledge and strategy rather than the game of luck it so often becomes.

A reader who desires to improve his/her play will certainly benefit from reading Myers' analysis of these hands. Players who aspire to greatness might use Myers' work as a takeoff point for thinking through hand play themselves and actually writing up their own analysis.

Myers also has planned books featuring hand analysis from No-Limit and Tournament Hold'em.

I consider myself an upper-intermediate or low-advanced limit player, and I found myself constantly disagreeing with this book. While particular hands may be debatable, the author's explanations did not strike me as authoritative, and usually did not change my mind.

But some of the suggestions are clearly, expensively, wrong. On page 56, the author recommends folding top pair 77 on the flop after being reraised, because we are probably behind. But pot odds are 8:1, with 9 strong outs (to a high inside straight, trips, or two pair) and in position to boot! That's a call even if they are ahead with a low set, and we could still be ahead with top pair -- they may be stealing with overcards, second pair, or a draw. I've shared the hand with others, who agree this is clearly a large mistake, especially in a big pot, last to act.

The author strikes me as a winning, intermediate level player, who understands important concepts, but applies them inexpertly, and wanted to write a book anyway.

For advanced players, the book could serve as useful practice in thinking hands through and deciding where and why to agree or disagree. The less advanced will get a lot of exposure to the thinking that goes into playing a hand, but may get misled.

Superb alternatives include _Middle Limit Hold'em_ by Ciaffone, _Advanced Limit Hold'em Strategy_ by Tanenbaum, _Small Stakes Hold'em_ by Miller et al, and _Winning in Tough Hold'em Games_ by Grudzien and Herzog.

If you're a beginning to intermediate limit hold'em limit hold'em player, then this book will get you thinking about the poker playing process. It'll teach you how to think through a hand of limit hold'em, and it stresses the importance of taking time to think about the game intelligently away from the table.

Some might complain because this book doesn't contain a lot of theory, but a few great theory books already exist. The poker literature has needed a book that strips the hand playing process in limit hold'em down to its fundamentals, and this book does just that. During the process, some important theoretical concepts do come out from under the woodworks, like evaluating when to raise draws for value or free cards versus calling with draws. By using lots of example hands and talking through each of them, Neil Myers shows readers how to think when they're at the tables. Others might raise concerns about some of the analysis. I don't wholeheartedly agree with 100% of the analysis that Myers does. However, the differences in opinion I have regarding some of the analysis is the result of Myers's attempt to keep things simple. The decisions in poker can be extremely complicated, but the audience Myers addresses isn't ready for overwhelmingly complicated analysis. The level of analysis is quite appropriate for the target audience, and this book will be a huge help for that audience.

As an example of Myers's attempts to keep things simple, on p. 56, Myers talks about a hand in which you have 78 on the button in an unraised pot against four opponents and the pot comes 467. Action checks to you, you bet, and an early position opponent raises you. Myers strongly advocates folding, but depending on the check-raiser, calling might be the correct play given the 8:1 pot odds you're getting and the possibilities of either being ahead or having a 6-outer (gutshot straight draw and 2 sevens). The decision to be made here is borderline and highly opponent-dependent. I disagree with Myers for strongly advocating folding, but I would also disagree with anyone who would strongly advocate calling.

This book isn't targeting advanced players, but as a poker coach and the author of a few poker books, I found it really interesting because it's quite educational to consider such points of analytical departure. Though this book is targeted at beginning-intermediate players, it's really a rewarding read for anyone who is an active, inquisitive reader. The point of reading is to achieve mental growth; therefore, I give Limit Hold'em Hand By Hand five stars.

May Your EV Always Be Positive!

Tony Guerrera
Author of Killer Poker By The Numbers

After playing for a year in home games and doing fairly well, I decided to read up a bit more. Neil Myers book was then handed to be by a friend.

Simply put, the book is an asset to understanding Hold'em and giving you a foundation to grow your skills on. He doesn't throw all kinds of unnecessary terms, ideas, or all the concepts at you in one swoop. The book was meant to give you a good idea of what to do in common play scenarios and a bit beyond. It won't make you an pro, as the book was not designed to do. It is designed to help you play smart poker.

After absorbing a lot of the concepts, I used them at the table and at online games. In instances where I would of normally called or raised, his book enlightened me to fold. It has saved me a lot of time, money, and taught me to be patient with the game. The bottom line is if you don't have a good hand, toss the cards. His book explains why.

Quick and Easy Texas Hold'em is an asset to anyone who wants to study it and use it to play better poker at any entry level player.

Myers delivers by providing a solid book for beginners. The premise is that you are given a simple method to take to the casino or Internet card room.

The method is easy to follow and put into practice.

Myers writes in an entertaining, straightforward style and (thankfullY) keeps the math to the minimum. It also comes with a DVD

Given the choice of poker books for new players, I liked this one best for its clarity and user-friendliness.

This book is a great place to start for beginning players.
Some reviewers complain that his starting hand guide is much too tight, and it is for an "advanced players", but not at all for a real beginners, the whole point of the book is to give new players a good solid place to start and then work up and out from there. Myers doesn't say to the reader, "play these tight starting hands for the rest of your poker life", he says START here!
I've read every Poker book out there, and this is among the best of it type for the reader because it plainly focuses on the subject explained in the title.
"LEARN TO PLAY POKER!"
If you are just starting out or still have leaks and wholes in your game, or just want to go back over the basics once in a while, get this excellent book!
This is the book I would start anyone with and after you master the point in this book, then go on to other great books.
This book is not a waste of money as some reviewer said, because the money you'll save NOT making bug mistakes covered in this book will save you a hundred times as much money as you spent on this useful and constructive book on Hold'em Low Limit Poker.

I read this book with hope that it would be better than the other beginner level poker books I read but it wasn't. The DVD was not helpful either. I enjoy playing Texas Holdem and I want to boost my winnings and this book isn't helping me enough.

I agree that the author is conservative. Maybe TOO conservative in fact. I found that following his tips made the game tedious. It is supposed to be about fun, and I got bored fast. In a friendly game, the pace should be brisk and taking some risks adds to the excitement.

This is an OK book but too expensive for what it is. I learned a lot from the book. The excercises are good but the wording is sometimes confusing. You have the answers for "odd" exercises in the back of the book, but it looks like that the authors added new exercises in this edition and the answers are in the back of the book, therefore, you don't know if you got the right answer.
You better read some other Basic Statistic book, before you using this book. Good for people that study Science or Engineering.

I am very disappointed with this book, especially considering how much I paid for it... In particular, the book lacks good example problems (it lacks enough examples, period), and is somewhat unorganized. The authors do not explain how to use formulas very well, and they often skip steps and leave the reader bewildered. I also wish there were more answered problems for each chapter in order to test your knowledge more adequately.

In combination with a poorly taught class, I have found the book to be ultimately unhelpful in my efforts to learn and apply statistics. If you're looking for independent study, or just a good stats book, this is definitely NOT the way to go.

This is one of the better undergrad-level books on the subject, and the fact that it's now in it's 7th edition (as of this writing) shows that it's still in use in the halls of academia. My copy, if I remember correctly, is either a first or second edition.

Unfortunately for me, I had a sub-par instructor (and a different text book) the first time I studied the material, and even though I got high marks in the class, I re-audited the class again, on my own time, with a different instructor, the following semester. The different instructor, and text book (this one), made a big difference, and really helped bring the material to life for me ... even though it cost me half of a perfectly good summer vacation to do it.

Let's face it ... probability computations, permutations, and confidence intervals, can be a bit dry (and a hot classroom with no air conditioning didn't help matters), but Wadpole does a decent job of not only covering the material well. There are plenty of worse books on the material out there, trust me. This one's better than others I've seen.

The problem with this book is that it can not decide whether it is a proper mathematics book, spending time on formal proofs and on mathematical intuition, or a "recipes" book simply providing the reader with a list of statistical techniques.

The author spends some time going though the sequential building blocks of statistical theory, presenting key theorems, but only to leave more than 1/2 of them as "exercises". This leads to a number of problems such as:

1) Uncertainty regarding the applicability of techniques without a proper derivation from first principles
2) The need to constantly fall back to the detailed wording of past Theorems and Corrolaries to compensate the lack of clear intuitive understanding of the material presented
3) The inability of the author to differentiate between BIG ideas and little details (and the links between them...)

The book is therefore an OK framework to get a quick overview of the topic, for quick browsing and quick fixes, but in order to really cover the material properly, one needs to constantly refer back to more thorough and formal works.

Remember the Calculus books that try to compensate a sharp presentation of ideas and concepts by encyclopedic integration techniques??? This is the statistical equivalent...

With an exception of Chapter 1, this book is well written, well organized with logical flow of subjects, and having practical example for every chapter's sub-topics. I found most of these examples are simple and very supportive for the understanding of mathematical expressions and that link the underline subject with real-world application. This book, in my opinion, is an excellent text for science and engineering students as well as for scientist or professional engineer who wants to achieve his or her self-study of the fundamentals of probability and statistics.

If Chapter 1 had provided a right level of abstract for an introduction of book's chapters and eliminated trivial / obvious errors (e.g. on pp. 9 and 10) in this chapter then, I believe, the reader's impression of the book would increase significantly.