Nick Wealthall’s No Limit Tournaments Review

February 21, 2009 by Nick Wealthall

Nick Wealthall Wow what a weird coincidence – a poker DVD with the same name as mine. To be fair this product was always going to find it’s way on here wasn’t it. You can rest assured I’ll be asking myself some pretty searching questions on it during the review. When I started to write these DVDs the challenge was what could we do that was different to what was already out there. My view is that despite the wealth of information on playing tournaments there wasn’t anything like enough on how to accumulate chips quickly in tournaments and win the things, so that is the focus of the series.

What’s in them?
There are 3 disks.

Disk 1 looks at the fundamentals of tournament play. It covers some basic concepts, such as pre flop play, playing short stacks, playing big stacks, semi-bluffing and targeting weak players.

Disk 2 contains 10 plays and bluffs to make you chips in tournaments. This is one of the few resources in poker that gives you some specific plays you can make to gain chips and bully tighter players.

Disk 3 is all about getting paid. It looks at the tournament from the bubble, through the final table and to winning the whole thing. There’s also a decent length section on heads up play and some of the techniques you should be using to take 1st place.

What’s good about them?
The DVDs do a good job of getting you into the right mindset for tournament play. The central idea is that people fold too much in tournaments to preserve their ‘tournament life’ and you should be taking advantage of that. They focus on looking for opportunities to accumulate chips and win more than your fair share of pots. There’s also a vaguely amusing joke about Carol Vorderman on disk 2.

What would I change about the DVDs?
One of my shirts is a bit dodgy to be fair. It’s tough because you can always add more and there’s so much ground to cover. I think there should more in the DVDs about preflop aggression. Re-raising preflop with or without a hand has become very common in tournaments these days – especially when you get to the medium buy in levels and above. How to do this and combat it isn’t covered as much as I’d like in the DVDs. However this is related to aggression in tournaments which is the theme of the discs so hopefully viewers will get the mindset you need to win tournaments.

In summary then…
It’s hard to give a verdict on your own product apart from ‘ruddy brilliant’ obviously! Joking aside I think the DVDs do give you a slightly different message to a lot of other sources of tournament information. They give you concrete ways to be aggressive and bluff which are hard to find elsewhere. If you’re looking to get an edge in tournaments – especially up to $100 buy ins – they’ll be plenty here to help you out. Though feel free to fast forward through my many dodgy gags.

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