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Linda Laporte

Quick read

Reviewed in Canada on March 25, 2015

Annie offers some good food for thought. This is a short book, well worth the time it takes to read.

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binpoet

Definatly worth a read. This is a booklet, not a book so dont be expecting hundreds of pages!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2013

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I have read over 20 poker books, and a lot of them cover the same ground. This covers a particular area and i haven't seen it covered in any other book I have read.
The middle zone tackles middle strength hands ( I got this thinking it referred to medium stack sizes in tournament poker, I am glad it doesn't as this has been covered in other books).
Poker isn't all about maximizing your winnings, minimizing your losings is just as important. You can't win everyhand and a £100 saved on a losing hands is the same as an extra £100 won on a winning hand.
This booklet regards hands that may or may not be best, and advocates very different lines then conventional thinking. If you have a hand such as top pair weak kicker (strength of hand is obviously player dependent) you would normally try and keep the pot small,(also may need to protect hand against overs and drawers) not wanting to build a big pot with an ok holding whether that be smaller value bets, blocker bets whatever, your goal is to get to showdown and release your showdown equity. This books concentrates on the money you can lose with having the second best hands and you sacrifice the showdown value of your hand not to lose an inflated pot. So you could for example treat hand as a bluff and bet and fold to reraise you could get called an improve or they could fold. Basically mucking your hand if the waters seam to murky.
Hope this review makes sense im not great at explaining myself, luckily for the buyers of this booklet these authors are!!!!

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_Mr_G_

Concise and practical advice that you can instantly put into your game

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 5, 2012

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A very nice concept of offering advice on an individual area of poker in one concise 'bookette', rather than being part of a huge volume, that may get under read or overlooked amongst all teh other information. This is the first one, which covered an area I have struggled consistently with in my game and despite trying different strategies, none seemed to work well. The advice presented is very readable, easy to take in, makes sense and as i have already done, can quickly be put into practise and allow you to make clear decisions on plays rather than go on guesswork. Well done Annie and co-writer John Vorhaus, look forward to teh next one.

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Hal

The Middle Zone

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2012

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I really enjoyed the shorter format written, it is well written for beginners and experienced poker players, you learn alot in a short space of time which for me makes it even better. The insight in to a modern poker player like Annie Duke is great, its well written and easy to understand, i recommend it to anybody that simply enjoys poker, bonus is you cant go wrong for the price, bargain, loved it.

joe reid.

excellent game theory.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 26, 2014

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The only thing i disliked about this book was it's lack of length. But that was down to the fact it covered the topic of the " middle zone " accurately and objectively .

Michael

One idea

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 30, 2013

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The idea of a middle zone is good and potentially useful, but not worth more than a chapter, and that's all you get here, one idea

Darren Parker

Cheap and very short

Reviewed in Australia on July 13, 2015

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very short, no wonder it was cheap! Has a couple of good tidbits of advice.

Anyis Francis

very Strong

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2022

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Powerful Teaching of middle zone.. I didn’t realize that a lot of situations I found myself in was the middle zone and I have paid the cost more by playing those middle zone cards.. It’s cost me the 500k Card house tournament on day 2 .. AQ running into. AA on a bad all in Call.. But KQ is the most damaging cause I hits either card and can’t tell where I’m at and end up losing to AK or AQ.. pocket 10’s as well .. flopping a set only to face a straight draw or flush draw.. Annie Duke is a Pro and Legend in her own rights and amongst female players.. So I know this Book is a Must have for players looking to up their game.. Cause mines definitely improved greatly from this book👍🏾

MMC

a fair analysis on a concept

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2014

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This is a long article discussing the 'Middle Zone' which is a spot in poker where you don't really know if you have the best hand like one pair.
The article is essentially telling you to tread carefully unless you have the nuts. I felt this book is geared towards beginner players to avoid sticky situations where you can be faced with a big decision. Extract the most amount of money when you have the nuts and when you know you have the worst hand, you can play it as a bluff or fold. While I can see some value in understanding this concept, the danger is that you will never extract value from your middle to strong hands that are likely good and better than your opponents range. I know this is a very short book or long article depending on how you look at it but I feel I need a bit more examples to understand how to play certain spots in the middle zone. As we all know, having the nuts is very rare.

Amazon Customer

Well Done!!! Except...

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2013

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Except it left me wanting more. Cleverly written as it plainly explained concepts in a somewhat funny way. At one point I was actually laughing out loud.
Although the concepts covered are in other books...such as Harrington on cash games, (the trouble hand section) which I believe he stated he got from Brunson. They were still covered well and made you think. Such a short read I was wondering what the heck happened until the end when it was explained that it was a "single" and I at that point also checked the cover ...where I must point out that the words "poker single" are fairly blurry. At any rate, I ain't mad. Actually happy, as I also ordered the book, "decide to play great poker." I hope it's as interesting and clever as this one.

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