Above all else, no-limit demands an ability to understand your opponents. Largay articulates the primary object of no-limit hold'em: 'to bust or double through your opponent.' No-limit is not about picking up or saving an extra bet (keys to limit success), and it requires a very different set of strategic skills. The book is nothing more than a tool to get you started, but it will give you plenty of knowledge to become a competent player in low-limit no-limit games, the capped buy-in games that are spread everywhere these days. What does he mean? He means that you have to do the work to transform knowledge into skill, insight into execution.
No-Limit Texas Hold'em 'won't make you a great player-or even a good one,' he writes in his conclusion. Good strategy book reviewed for Card Player.Īt the end of this fine book on no-limit hold'em cash games, Angel Largay, a former dealer and creator of a poker 'boot camp,' articulates exactly what every poker strategy author should acknowledge and what every reader should understand.
