Book Review: Daniel Negreanu - Hold'em Wisdom For All Players

Daniel Negreanu's Hold'em Wisdom For All Players is NOT a book for beginners but it is not that good of a book for advanced players either. This is a book for experienced beginners. This book expects the reader to have a pretty good working knowledge of Texas Hold'em. The expectation is that you will have read other material and played enough Texas Hold'em to know what pot odds are, what 'outs' are, what starting hands to play and many other basic Texas Hold'em strategies.

This book is not a book for advanced players wanting advanced strategy plays or more in depth concepts like how to play from Under the Gun or how to play the blinds, etc. This is a book for the fairly new Texas Holdem player that is trying to steadily improve his game and move up from microstakes play to higher buy-in poker. This is a good book for that type of player and I am one of them. I am trying to hone my game and improve my knowledge so as to be able to move up to higher stakes Hold'em and I really enjoyed reading this book.

Hold'em Wisdom For All Players is what I understand to be a collection of articles that Daniel Negreanu did for various websites and magazines. 50 of these articles have been compiled into this book and each one is presented as a chapter. Chapter 1 - Top Ten Rookie Mistakes, chapter 2 - Top 5 reasons why your losing at Poker, Chapter 10 - The Five Times Rule are just a few of the 50 topics presented in this book that are worth reading and rereading. Each chapter is written with Daniel's folksy style. What is unique is that it is done with Daniel's unique teaching approach, easy going manner and common sense.

This is a very easy book to read and when you are reading this book you can almost hear Daniel Negreanu talking to you. Before you know it you have reached the end of the book and not once have you come across a concept or strategy that was boring or drawn out enough to make you check to see how much longer you had to go before you reached the end of the chapter.

Daniel presents his strategies towards the novice player but will include his thoughts on how the advanced player would play or what advice he would give to an advanced player. This allows you to get an understanding of how your poker insight will change with increased experience.