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Mzone Report - The Poker Tournament Strategy

Arnold Snyder Brings a new process to Tournament Strategy

Last year, a new poker tournament book was released by Arnold Snyder called "The Poker Tournament Formula". It is a well written book from a seasoned gambling professional that brings insight into fast poker tournaments with an aggressive betting and bluffing strategy.

For low entry fee online tournament players I saw this book as a glimmer of hope in that someone may have put forth some thought in to how to actually win tournaments consistently at that level. It seemed to me though that playing "small ball" poker with clusters of players who have little regard for position and the real value of hole cards might be an interesting experience, but not profitable.

Regardless, this book had a lot of positive reviews upon it's release because it presented new ideas that were contrary to the 2+2 writing clan of Sklansky, Harrington, and Malmuth. In fact that forum got into heated debates with Snyder's forum as a result of Snyder's book poking holes in a Sklansky's drone game. And yes, it is still going on.

I contacted Arnold Snyder and chatted with him about how his strategy could be adapted for online play, especially in the lower range. He thought it was a great thing to pursue and I mentioned some tournaments that I frequently play. We decided to give Arnold some time to play in these tournaments and test his theories. Our plan was to compare research and present that in some articles to help promote his book even more and offer some tips on my websites.

I waited.

I waited for Arnold while rereading his book and trying to use his strategies myself in online tournaments. The short of it was - it wasn't working for me. So I reverted back to my own mzone based tournament strategy and began winning again.

I tried to get a hold of Arnold again. I waited. No response, no results, and no further contact. It could be that Arnold Snyder may feel he has bigger fish to fry and didn't want to follow through on this research, which I know would have boosted sales of his book. I mean isn't winning a tournament what thousands and thousands of online players want to do? Of course they do. I even went to Snyder's forum and virtually pleaded with players using his system online to come forth and show me you are doing better than me. I got a few select nibbles, but not one had a better record in tournaments that I did.

So was it an opportunity lost? I don't think so. What I think happened is that Arnold Snyder found the exact same thing as I did. His strategy is simply not profitable in online poker tournaments.