Ken Warren

[TEKEE]

Please give me some feedback of your opinions on KEN WARREN.

[TwoShedsJackson]

HIS OMAHA BOOK IS RUBBISH. I FEAR I HAVE NEVER MET HIM SO CAN OFFER NO PERSONAL OPINION.

[Voltron87]

HIS HOLD'EM BOOK WAS THE FIRST POKER BOOK I READ, GOT ME OFF ON THE RIGHT TRACK.

[KeyToTheMint]

Ken Warren is to poker writers, what tattooed players are to
poker, (see his book for a fuller treatment of this subject).

[Andy B]

His original how-to book on hold'em is one of the worst books I have ever read. I can't imagine he has written anything decent since.

[TheShootah]

My favorite part is that somewhere on one of his books is written that some casinos pay him to not play in tournaments there...what a joke.

[PotatoStew]

I've heard it mentioned many times around here that his book is pretty bad. I haven't read it -- can anyone be more specific as to what makes it so terrible? Just curious.

[Reef]

if you had to choose never reading a poker book in your life and playing ... or only getting to read "Ken warren teaching texas Hold 'em" , I'd have to go with reading the book.

[Piers]

His section on stereotypes is the highlight of the book. I am still looking for that table of young black female oriental lesbians with tattoos at which to make my fortune.

[Andy B]

Now there's a ringing endorsement.

[Reef]

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His section on stereotypes is the highlight of the book. I am still looking for that table of young black female oriental lesbians with tattoos at which to make my fortune.

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lol

[deacsoft]

Skip them all.

[ToneLoc]

One of the worst poker writer. Ever. 'Nuff said.

[thirddan]

i met him playing 3/6 at morongo one day about a year and a half ago...he was drunk and had bad breath when he talked to me, he also told me a story about how if a tiger is chasing you and your friend you only have to be faster than your friend...i wasn't too impressed with his play, but he probably wasn't playing seriously cuz the stakes were so low...and his book is not good IMO...

[KeyToTheMint]

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I've heard it mentioned many times around here that his book is pretty bad. I haven't read it -- can anyone be more specific as to what makes it so terrible? Just curious.

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His writings are clearly wrong in spots. I'll give one example from WINNERS GUIDE TO TEXAS HOLD'EM POKER from 1996 first edition pg 87:

"Cards can and do run in cycles. The theory of large numbers says so. If you experience a period where it seems like nothing but the low cards are winning the pots, then it is a perfectly legitimate strategy change to start playing low cards."

Nonsense, the cards do not have memory.

[KeyToTheMint]

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My favorite part is that somewhere on one of his books is written that some casinos pay him to not play in tournaments there...what a joke.

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Inside the front cover of WINNERS GUIDE TO TEXAS HOLD'EM POKER about the author:

"An excellent tournament player, several Las Vegas poker rooms have asked Warren to skip their tournaments in order to give other players a chance to win as well."

He sounds like some kind of grifter.

[jedi]

I read his Omaha book. It's a decent first quarter to an Omaha book, but as a whole book, it's terrible. While he correctly states that hand selection is the most important thing about low limit Omaha, he goes through too many pages of examples on it and how to read the board. There's nothing there about post-flop play in there at all. Decent first part of a book for beginners, that's all. I think I wrote a review about it on Amazon.com

[johnc]

His book "Ken Warren Teaches Texas Holdem" is absolute crap. It was my 1st book and had to "unlearn" alot of weak-tight style. Thank the poker gods I stumbled upon SSHE by luck at a bookstore!

[poker-penguin]

Read the book, and Idid get some useful stuff from it. BUT, I've alot of experience digging nuggets outof crap.

[blingice]

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Ken Warren is to poker writers, what tattooed players are to
poker, (see his book for a fuller treatment of this subject).

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/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I've won SOOOOOOOO much money off of people with tattoos.

Bling.

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black female oriental

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Bling.

[highfidelity]

in his omaha book he decides that, instead of teaching you how to play high or high/low, he'll give the barest description of both of them without any extremely useful information.

[jayboo]

his holdem book was the first poker book i ever baught and read. I basically got (play any hand that equals 21 under any circomstance). Horrible book IMO

[jimymat]

I played with Ken in Kansas City at Ameristar for a while. He's a nice enough guy. His book on hold em came out right when poker took off a couple of years ago. It has bad advice and a lot of mis-calculations concerning odds. I think he made pretty good money off the book deal but made himself look bad by all the information or lack of. I know for a fact that Ameristar never paid him to not participate in any tournaments. Cant comment on his breath. If I had the oppurtunity to write a book I would have researched a little better. Either way he's raking it in on book sales.