The intent of Winning Blue-Collar Hold'em is not to put you at the final table at the WSOP or WPT. Instead, the intention of the author is to improve the play of the average low-limit/low buy-in Texas Hold'em player. Televised tournament final tables or high-stakes games distort the way average players approach the game. On TV you see only 10% of the action. The successful bluff or an improbable two out all-in is exciting, and thus will make the program, while you rarely see the player making the solid play, except when they lose to the two-outer. The other aspect players viewing televised poker fail to understand is that the style of play seen at the final table is not the same style of play that it takes to make the final table. This book takes you beyond the "What" of poker and provides you with the "How" and "Why" you need to become a winning low-stakes player. The use of poker aphorisms (pokerisms) throughout the book separates it from all of the other books on the market.
About the Author: Daniel L. Cox began playing poker at age eight. His father Carl taught him poker around the dining room table for pennies. At 13 he entered his first "adult" game and learned the heartbreak of losing his entire bankroll on a bad beat when he lost his last $20.00 with Trip Aces in the hole. By age 17, he was playing in the poker rooms in Gardena. A year later, he made his first trip to Las Vegas and found out the competition was a lot fiercer than the home games he grew up playing. After joining the Army in 1974, he made the payments on his first sports car with the winnings from the payday poker games in the barracks. Over the next thirty-five years, he has been playing poker in home games, back rooms, Officer's Clubs and casinos around the world. In 1980, Dan obtained a B.A. in Economics and Literature from Claremont McKenna College and became a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He had assignments as a Chemical Officer in California and General Staff Officer in Virginia, as well as a tour as an Intelligence Officer in Korea. Injuries suffered in a parachute jump in 1980 forced an early medical retirement from the Army in 1988. In 1999, he obtained an M.S. in Management of Technology from the University of Alabama - Huntsville and became CIO of a start-up endeavor in Huntsville. In 2002 he retired, bought a motor home and began a two year odyssey around America and Canada, visiting casinos from coast to coast. Near the end of his travels, he met his eventual wife, Aleda. The following year, they celebrated a Las Vegas wedding and now live on a five acre spread in the Southern California desert. For his Senior Thesis he penned "Diary in Grey: Memoirs of a West Point Plebe." It is the 175-page fictionalized autobiographical novella about the first year experiences of a West Point Cadet. For the last five years, Dan has been the Writer/Editor of first, Gaming Review Online (www.gamingreview.org) and now, Poker Insider Magazine (www.pokerinsider.org). Besides reviewing casino poker rooms, he publishes articles on poker events, strategy and tutorials for several online poker sites. Taking his decades o knowledge as a serious amateur player and his experience as a writer for just as long, he began writing his first book on poker strategy, "Winning Blue-Collar Hold'em." He is currently co-authoring a tournament strategy book with a top professional player, as well an additional poker strategy book based on poker aphorisms (Pokerisms) and quotes.