Rules of Poker According to Roy Cooke

Rules are present in any aspect of our lives. Obviously, even in the poker world, rules must also be followed. There are several books that teach readers the rules for playing poker and one of these poker books is written by Roy Cooke in collaboration with John Bond. The title of their poker book is "Cooke's Rules of Real Poker."

Roy Cooke has collaborated with John Bond several times already in order to write poker books that successfully educate novice, intermediate, and advanced poker players. Roy Cooke is one of the very popular professional poker players and although he has not yet handled a live action poker room in his life, he has already gained a lot of live poker experiences. As a matter of fact, Roy Cooke has already established his reputation of being a thoughtful poker player. Indeed, Roy Cooke is one credible author of a book that discusses the rules of poker.

"Cooke's Rules of Real Poker" obviously tackles rules of poker and there are guiding principles wherein Roy Cooke bases such rules. These guiding principles include tradition, simplicity, efficiency, and fairness.

In "Cooke's Rules of Real Poker," Roy Cooke emphasizes the significance of standardizing poker rules because of the fact that standardization has the capability of improving efficiency. Readers might have the notion that "Cooke's Rules of Real Poker" is a poker book that is difficult to understand mainly because Roy Cooke might have incorporated technical terms that readers might find difficult to grasp. Well, we guarantee you that "Cooke's Rules of Real Poker" is not that kind of poker book. Roy Cooke has made it a point that "Cooke's Rules of Real Poker" is easy to comprehend. However, we believe that readers should know that in most cases, the type of poker game mentioned by Roy Cooke in his poker book is limit cash games. This only means that the rules that Roy Cooke discusses in "Cooke's Rules of Real Poker" are mostly applicable in limit cash games only.

As readers turn every page of "Cooke's Rules of Real Poker," they might notice some flaws like, for example, there are some rules that should not have been discussed anymore because they lack importance and there are some important rules that have not been mentioned in the book. One of the rules that should not have been included but have been included in "Cooke's Rules of Real Poker" anyway is the need for telephone calls to be limited when poker players are at the poker table or in the middle of a game. We believe that this rule is not significant because a dealer or an opponent or anybody else should not be obliged to track or monitor the length of phone calls of poker players.

Perhaps, readers will also not agree with some of the rules mentioned in "Cooke's Rules of Real Poker." Nonetheless, we recommend this poker book because such rules have reasonable basis anyway.