Poker mania is sweeping the globe. Thanks to TV and the Internet, suddenly poker is the new Hollywood. Top players are earning superstar salaries, while movie stars like Ben Affleck and Jennifer Tilley are more about the green felt than the silver screen. The main event at the 2005 World Series of Poker, with a staggering $10,000 entry fee, had nearly 6,000 participants from around the world and a prize pool of more than $50 million. The poker market is now enormous and everyone wants to play. There's only one problem: No-limit hold 'em is a difficult and complex game. That's where KILL PHIL comes in. Despite its complexities, the structure of no-limit tournaments opens the door for even absolute novices to compete against the world's best players. In fact, the KILL PHIL strategy is most effective when employed against the experts. By illustrating how novice players can make simple moves that nullify the advantage of the pros, KILL PHIL targets the massive audience of beginners taking up this game. KILL PHIL is a tournament-strategy book designed to beat the pros?several named "Phil"?at their own game. Written by two seasoned professionals who've collectively won hundreds of thousands at the tournament tables, it's endorsed?with some trepidation?by the biggest baddest "Phil" of them all, nine-time World Series of Poker champion "Poker Brat" Phil Hellmuth, Jr.