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The Badass Girl's Guide to Poker
Toby Leah Bochan
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"I can't say I chose The Badass Girl's Guide to Poker as much as it chose me. I'm part of a poker group that plays once a month, it's my aunt that hosts it, and one of the guests brought that book for all the ladies who play. So it was actually my wife's book, and I decided I'd read it when she was done with it and enjoyed it a great deal.
The book really is sort of an introduction to poker. It has everything from the very fundamental basics of hands, how they work, how betting strategies work, all the way up to things that are sort of reflective of what would be called a "woman's sensibility" those aren't my words; those are words that are in the book, the intention being of how you can use your gender to maybe have an advantage, how you can throw people off of their game. I got an insight into how I may be played when other people are playing, when women are playing, and what ways may be used to keep me off of my game in playing poker.
One of the examples of ways to get you off of your game that are suggested in the book are the dumb blonde who doesn't know how to play and really does know how to play and plays cards to win but will slow the game pace down, ask for help, and do things that basically let men fawn over them and stay off of their game and not concentrate.
I very much enjoyed the book, aside from sort of the stereotypical genders there, which were kind of a little off-putting. It dealt more with emotion, and being in control of not going on tilt, and betting on emotion, and really sort of focusing on your game, and breathing, and it was sort of a Zen poker guide.
I think this book would be good for anybody that is getting an entry into poker and wants to just sort of learn the basics. It was very straight talk, very easy to read, it's funny; I think it's a good entre book to poker.
I would give it five stars out of five for a poker book. In the canon of text, three out of five."
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