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2009 WPT Player of the Year, ElkY, with Lee Nelson, Tysen Streib, and Tony Dunst, shows you how to adapt to loose-aggressive poker play.<\/p>\n

Poker phenomenon\u00a0Bertrand \u201cElkY\u201d Grospellier teamed up with poker authors Lee Nelson and Tysen Streib\u00a0(Kill Everyone<\/i>), plus poker star Tony Dunst, to pen this groundbreaking title that shows you how to adapt to the current trends in tournament-poker\u00a0play, analyzing how and why the loose-aggressive\u00a0and hyper-loose aggressive styles work, and instructing on how to apply and defend against them.<\/p>\n

About The Author(s)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Bertrand \u201cElkY\u201d Grospellier<\/strong>\u00a0is a French tournament-poker phenomenon. He was the first player ever to reach \u201cSupernova\u201d and \u201cSupernova Elite\u201d status on PokerStars. In 2008, he won the European Poker Tour\u2019s Caribbean Poker Adventure and the World Poker Tour\u2019s Festa al Lago Tournament at Bellagio. In 2009, he won the Caribbean Poker Adventure\u2019s $25,000-buy-in High Roller side event and was named World Poker Tour Player of the Year. In 2011 at the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Madrid, ElkY won the $10,000-buy-in High Roller Turbo, $25,000-buy-in High-Roller, and $25,000-buy-in Scoop Heads-Up, cashing more than a US$1 million. As of that date, his total live tournament winnings exceeded US$7.5 million. ElkY\u00a0also wrote the commentary for\u00a0the best-selling tournament poker book, Kill Everyone<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the height of his career, Lee Nelson<\/strong> was the top-rated poker tournament player in Australia and New Zealand. In 2006, he won the main event at the Aussie Millions and its US$1 million prize. Lee also won the 2005 Party Poker World Open ($400,000) prize and the pot-limit Omaha event at the 2009 Aussie Millions. An original member of the Australian Poker Hall of Fame, Lee is also the author of Let’s Play Poker<\/em>,\u00a0Flop Turn River<\/em><\/a>, and co-author of the highly acclaimed Kill Everyone<\/em><\/a> and Kill Phil<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tysen Streib<\/strong> is a superb poker-math modeler and an expert in applying this math to specific situations that you will encounter, especially when you get short-stacked. Tysen co-authored with Lee Nelson the best-selling tournament poker books Kill Everyone<\/em><\/a> and Flop Turn River<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tony Dunst<\/strong>, a WPT television moderator, is a new-school adept who is up to date with current trends, as he monitors thousands of hands for the WPT and is a great player himself. Tony made a major contribution to The Raiser\u2019s Edge<\/em><\/a>, which he co-authored with Bertrand \u201cElkY\u201d Grospellier, Lee, and Tysen.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International poker phenomenon\u00a0Bertrand \u201cElkY\u201d Grospellier teams up with Lee Nelson and Tysen Streib, plus poker star Tony Dunst, to pen this groundbreaking book. The Raiser\u2019s Edge<\/em> addresses adapting to the current trends in tournament-poker\u00a0play, analyzing how and why the loose-aggressive\u00a0and hyper-loose aggressive styles work, and instructing on how to apply and defend against them.<\/p>\n

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