David Apostolico Teaches Readers How to Play Tournament Poker

In most cases, people who are novice participants of poker tournaments, especially those who literally participate for the very first time, can not help but feel intimidated. This is true especially if these novice players compete against experienced poker players. Intimidation gets even worse as soon as these novice poker players get face to face with the biggest names in the world of professional poker. Intimidation also occurs at times when novice players of professional poker feel that they are being discriminated. Discrimination sometimes happens unintentionally because there are times when the staff of poker tournament assumes that all participants are knowledgeable of what goes on during tournaments.

We believe that David Apostolico has done the right thing of writing a poker book that focuses on helping first-time players be familiar with the things that transpire in poker tournaments. David Apostolico attempts to guide readers with his book "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Tournament Poker."

Before David Apostolico discusses any other topic, he begins by discussing what poker tournament is in the first chapter of "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Tournament Poker." David Apostolico then talks about the flow of every poker tournament and he also discusses the basic concepts of the game of no-limit holdem. "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Tournament Poker" is an appropriate introductory material. However, readers might be disappointed because this poker book only lengthily discusses no-limit holdem, when it should be discussing the entire poker tournament. We somehow feel that the title is not very appropriate to the contents of this poker book.

However, the other parts of "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Tournament Poker" tackle various types of poker tournaments, including online tournaments, bounties, shoot outs, satellites, add-ons, and rebuys.

The other chapters of "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Tournament Poker" tackle poker etiquette and poker strategy. It is good that David Apostolico has decided to incorporate the topic of poker strategy in his poker book. Nonetheless, a poker book of one hundred ninety four pages does not seem like to have adequate information on such subject. Despite such fact, the incorporation by David Apostolico of such topic is proper.

With regard to the inclusion by David Apostolico of the subject of poker etiquette in "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Tournament Poker," readers will surely find such information excellent. This part of "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Tournament Poker" seems to be the best of all parts of this poker book.

David Apostolico might have written a book with no more than two hundred pages, nonetheless, the contents of this book is important for poker players who might be participating in poker tournaments for the first time.