Kill Everyone: Advanced Strategies for No-Limit Hold 'em Poker Tournaments and Sit-n-Go's Paperback – June 1, 2009

This book is a great insight into the modern poker game. The author (Lee Nelson) and his team have put together a truly remarkable work that even seasoned players can benefit from. The commentary from Betrand Grospellier isn't simply a bunch of "I agree" he actually does disagree with Nelson on some points and always provides details on why he either agrees or disagrees.This book will show you how and more importantly WHEN to up your aggression, widen your hand range, or even lighten up. More geared towards tournament players, even cash gamers can benefit from the knowledge.While the book shows you loose-aggressive play, even players uncomfortable with this style should still read this book to gain insight into how OTHERS are playing.There is also a section towards the end on conditioning and fitness (who woulda thought you needed to be fit to sit on your butt all day) for long tourneys (some events last for 4-5 days playing 8-10 hours a day). Diet and exercise are important for long term mental function and the author lays out a basic guideline to get you started.All in all, definitely worth it to read, you'll make your money back on it.

This is a well written, informative book with excellent strategy tips. It is for the more advanced player so if you're just starting out, I would recommend chosing a more basic strategy book first.

I bought this book because I had trouble understanding how many people are playing in the big MTTs nowadays. I had read the first two Harrington books on tournament play, but I felt like the game had changed a lot since the days those books came out. I was puzzled about the way many players were winning lots of chips with mediocre holdigs. This book helped me to understand better what was going on in the tables. I can't say that I've become a better player, but I hope that when these concepts sink in I can start to gain some success in the tables.The book has lots of interesting topics like stealing from UTG, calling early raises in position with suited connectors and pushing short stacked with seemingly bad cards. Theories are backed with mathematical equations. In the first reading these things were a little too hard to get a grip, but more studying is required and hopefully these things fall into place too. It's also good idea to read about the tournament play after several years of Harrington's books, because those techniques are so common and everyone knows them so they are losing their power. It doesn't mean they're obsolete but just a little too common and well known that something else might work better at the moment.To me the last part of the book, which is about short handed cash games, is unnecessary. I don't understand why the authors have added that obviously too short section on complex matter which deserves its own book.So if you're playing tournaments and want to develop your skills to more advanced levels you need to know these things. After reading the Harrington books this is a good supplement, because this is newer and goes beyound the basics. I recommed this to everyone playing NLHE tournaments. However, in order to better understand these ideas, it would be good to have some kind of basic understanding of tournament play. Maybe not the first book you should read about MTTs.

This is one of the best books I've found for playing multi-table tournaments. I learned the game with Harrington's books on NLHE, but this is the one I needed to starting winning against today's hyper-aggressive player. A lot of the nuggets you get from this you will have to distill from the number of example hands provided, but it fills a big void for today's MTT play. Should be on the shelf of any serious player. Mine is already full of highlights and book marks.

I dont know what the big hoopla is where everyone says its a must book etc etc. Its just a ton of Math which is tough to follow. I'm an engineering graduate so I was able to follow it but its pretty much usless in real live applications. Ok so I must consider my bubble factor vs stack size and calculate of shove with this stack size vs villians range than cross reference anpother chart etc. Yeah right. How is that helpful in real life? I'm not going to get my 500 charts out in a game and knowing this math didn't bring any insights. All you can get from this book are things like big stacks shouldn't be battling with each other when the other guy is short which is common sense. I guess if you want to know why this is true based on bubble factors and see the math behind it read this book but WHY? You could be spending your time learning things much more valuable than being a math geek for the sake of enjoying math. At the end of the book it mentions things not based on math but nothing enlightening if you've played a few tournies before. If you want to base your decisions on ICM calculations and have a calculator going while playing online I guess you could but why? You should be thinking about the opponents range and what he'll do - not what some table tells you which assumes everyone plays the same. Just seems like to must brain work for no reason.

Kill Everyone is not a book for everyone. It is a book for the SERIOUS tournament poker player who has some experience. I find the book very informative; haven't finished it yet, but it is definitely worth the purchase price. Useful are concepts like CSI (how many times you can go around the table at current blind and ante levels, similar to Harrington's concept of M), and bubble factors (related to strategies when on or near the "bubble"). Although I have a PhD (in psychology), and know more than most about statistics, much of the presentation is so technical that I'll have to re-read the book when time permits. Some of the calculations are too complex for the above average reader, such as myself, and the myriad tables aren't all that helpful in practical play.That said, anyone serious about tournament poker should read this book.