It’s easy to get started in poker.  Learn the rules, read a few poker books, play a few hands, and in no time you’ll figure out the basics enough to get hooked.  Then you start playing for real stakes, and get a feel of how much the adrenaline affects and the real costs of success and failure affect the way you play.  Advanced play means learning how to control your mood and mask your emotions so as to prevent telegraphing your tells to your opponents.  It’s at this point that many amateur poker players run into a brick wall.  They’ve been playing enough to know how to break more than even but they want to make the big money, the kind where you end up living a whole year or so off the winnings without working.  Such tournaments are not easy to get into and almost always require preliminary elimination rounds to weed out the wheat from the chaff.  Fortunately, with Win Your Way Into Big Money Holdem Tournaments by Tom McElvoy, you’ll learn what it takes to get in and succeed.  Tom McElvoy shows you how to enter mini-tournaments, called satellites, and turn a small chunk of winnings into a million dollar prize with winning strategies that will get you into higher brackets and on the road to a fortune.  McElvoy turned a $39 winning hand into a $2.5 million dollar prize with his strategies and you can do.  This book is an indispensible guide to your reading library, integral to any player’s poker supplies, and should be referred to almost religiously if you’re tired of playing for small change here and there.