chrozzo 19 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 anyone know anything about the book "52 Tips for Texas Holdem" by Barry Schulman? I was just wondering what your thoughts are, Ive been seeing a lot about this book and didnt know if it was worth a read or not. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites
MyPlayIsRAB 0 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 it has 52 tips in it, thats all i kknow..lolactually the tips ive seen listen on cardplayer have been good from the book, its probably worth getting Link to post Share on other sites
econ_tim 0 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 tip#1 don't buy it Link to post Share on other sites
Bill_Brasky 0 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Bill Brasky Presents: 52 Tips for Life and Poker (A Bill Brasky Production)52. Always leave the toilet seat up. Always.51. Porcupines are quite tasty once you get past the quills. 50. Jackets made with goose down will almost invariably make you look stupid.49. Card protectors are for stupid people. Use a chip.48. Recycling is for suckers. You'll be dead before you see any of the benefits.47. Mustard is for quitters.46. If the sound system in your car costs more than the car itself you should probably kill yourself.45. Pork is the most disgusting of all meats and will give you cancer.44. Never make lists that are more than seven numbers long. Nobody will read them.43. If you don't bet a medium strength hand on the river when there is a dangerous board and you are last to act you are a pansy and should be the object of ridicule at the table. 42. Coke is better than Pepsi. Anyone who says they can't taste the difference is a liar. (That one was for Norm even though he doesn't know who I am.)41. Pennies are useless and should be taken out of circulation. Round up or down. I don't care.40. At the grocery store, if you are given the option of either paper or plastic bags always choose plastic. 39. People like it when you are condescending.38. Just remember, everyone you meet is stupider than you.37. Gutshots are always money.36. Fold aces preflop.37. Coffee is an acceptable substitute for milk in a bowl of cereal.36. If life hands you lemons; quit.35. Softball is never cool. 34. Slow playing aces works 60% of the time every time.33. Roller blades are much cooler than roller skates, but they still make you look like a douchebag.32. Chip shuffling makes you a better player.31. Always make stacks of nineteen chips instead of twenty. This will confuse and disorient your opponents. +EV.30. Protein shakes will give you gas.29. Girls don't poop.28. The raccoon is the greatest mammal of all time.27. I can see the flop before it comes out, and for only three low payments of $29.99 you can too!26. Barry Bonds has a huge head. Seriously, it's quite grotesque.25. Edgar A. Poe could whip Eminem's ass in a freestyle rap battle.24. Vienna Sausages are repugnant. Don't eat them.23. Bathe before you enter a casino. This is a serious one. Some of you guys smell awful. 22. Flathead screwdrivers are much more useful than Phillips head screwdrivers because a small flathead can still be used on a Phillips head screw. The reverse is not true.21. If you had $10 million you would dominate Andy Beal heads up. Variance shmariance.20. If you don't play outside your bankroll you aren't a real man. 19. Almost all girls find it highly arousing if you scream an obscenity at the top of your lungs when you ejaculate. 18. If you buy into a poker game with one dollar bills you shouldn't be playing.17. For her science project, a high school girl recently took samples from the water in the toilets of fast food restaurants and compared it with the ice from coke machine. Invariably, the toilet water was cleaner. Fast food for thought.16. Cell phones are just a fad; like the internet.15. The higher the limit you play the better the person you are. The same is true of post counts. 14. Most fat people don't have a glandular problem. They're just lazy.13. A stranger is just someone you haven't met. Tell your children this every time you leave them unsupervised.12. Better players get better cards.11. Before sex the vagina looks like a beautiful rose before it has blossomed. After sex it looks like a pit bull chewing on a marshmallow. (I didn't make that one up, but it's damn funny.)10. $3-$6 limit holdem at your local casino is the sport of kings.9. You shouldn't still be reading this.8. Watching the winter Olympics will take one month off the end of your life.7. Wearing sunglasses in a poorly lighted card room makes you look like a badass.6. If your post doesn't go through when you first hit the Submit button, keep hitting it until it works. 5. Most of the time a bad beat is the result of you misplaying the hand.4. Never buy single ply toilet paper. It's just not worth it no matter how much cheaper it is. 3. Folding preflop under the gun and then announcing to the entire table that nobody else could have made that laydown is +EV.2. You're always as good at poker as you think you are.1. Don't suck Link to post Share on other sites
chester97 0 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 dude are you freaking serious? i used to think you were just casually on and thats why you were posting so much. leaving it open at work or something. now i can see, you just have no life whatsoever. Link to post Share on other sites
Johnny_Utah 0 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Bill Brasky Presents: 52 Tips for Life and Poker (A Bill Brasky Production)46. If the sound system in your car costs more than the car itself you should probably kill yourself.39. People like it when you are condescending.36. If life hands you lemons; quit.33. Roller blades are much cooler than roller skates, but they still make you look like a douchebag.22. Flathead screwdrivers are much more useful than Phillips head screwdrivers because a small flathead can still be used on a Phillips head screw. The reverse is not true.11. Before sex the vagina looks like a beautiful rose before it has blossomed. After sex it looks like a pit bull chewing on a marshmallow. (I didn't make that one up, but it's damn funny.)Wow, I really laughed hard at that. People at my work thought I was retarded. Here are my favorites. Link to post Share on other sites
chrozzo 19 Posted February 17, 2006 Author Share Posted February 17, 2006 Bill Brasky Presents: 52 Tips for Life and Poker (A Bill Brasky Production)52. Always leave the toilet seat up. Always.51. Porcupines are quite tasty once you get past the quills. 50. Jackets made with goose down will almost invariably make you look stupid.49. Card protectors are for stupid people. Use a chip.48. Recycling is for suckers. You'll be dead before you see any of the benefits.47. Mustard is for quitters.46. If the sound system in your car costs more than the car itself you should probably kill yourself.etc................Well done. I was having a crappy day and you just made it better, laughter is the best medicine. Link to post Share on other sites
Bill_Brasky 0 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Well done. I was having a crappy day and you just made it better, laughter is the best medicine. Wow, I really laughed hard at that. People at my work thought I was retarded. Here are my favorites.Thanks guys. I was hoping to amuse a couple people. Apparently chester didn't find it very funny. Meh. Too bad this got moved out of General. It's not going to get much run. Maybe I'll make a thread for it. What do you think? Link to post Share on other sites
Mercury69 3 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 47. Mustard is for quitters.'Nuff said. Link to post Share on other sites
ShakeZuma 585 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 make a thread for it. Link to post Share on other sites
Bill_Brasky 0 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 make a thread for it.Are you sure? I don't want to come off as an attention whore. Link to post Share on other sites
ShakeZuma 585 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Do it. Do it.I liked it. And it was fifty times better that most of the crap people post in off topic.Be prepared for retarded picture posting though. Link to post Share on other sites
Bill_Brasky 0 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Do it. Do it.I liked it. And it was fifty times better that most of the crap people post in off topic.Be prepared for retarded picture posting though.Ok. I'm going for it.Some of those guys in the Hideout get really annoying. I like some of them, but some need to calm down. Link to post Share on other sites
ShakeZuma 585 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 definately agreed on that Link to post Share on other sites
cubbybri 0 Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Being sent a free copy of the book for making the final table of the CardPlayer.com freeroll. I'll make a post once it arrives. I am pretty sure that the book is helpful but they list a tip of the day on the CardPlayer.com website everyday. They recycle the 52 tips over and over. I hope the book has a little bit extra than that but I am assuming it will not. So my recommendation right now is go the website for a couple of months and you'll get all the info for free and save some cash for a Skalansky or Harrington book. Link to post Share on other sites
cubbybri 0 Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Just confirming my previous post. 52 tips is a good book. It is centered to limit hold'em but puts in some standard tips to help you out. I would say it is based to the just over beginner group. All tips helpful, some very basic but a few had things I have never thought about.Again, each day the website shows one of these tips so you could get all information for free. I am glad that I have it on paper now. If you are a beginner, grab it but I think a Skalansky book for ring games or Harrington for NLHE TOurneys may be a better value for your $ Link to post Share on other sites
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