Professional No Limit Hold ‘em: Volume 1

You’re such a tease, Ed.

Is there no way forum members can get advance copies?
It would be great if we could hit the tables with the knowledge within first.

Peter L

PS I meant buy advance copies by the way

PeterL

Peter - While I agree it would be nice to get advance copies, I really don’t think it’s necessary. Even though I be but a humble poker newbie, I have experience in other fields which allows me to predict what will happen when this new book hits the stands.

First, the majority of players will not even buy it. They will either not hear of it, or will smugly think that they know better, or that all poker books are “scams” because no one would ever publish anything useful, etc. (I know one poker player who says this BTW)

Of the minority that do buy it, about 90% of them will either skim it lightly or will not read it at all. Then they will put it on the shelf next to all the other books in their ineffectual poker “libaray”, which exists only for the sole purpose of impressing their friends.

Of the 10% that read it carefully, about 90% of those will lack some characteristic they need to make effective use of the information. Discipline, or persistence, or plain ol’ common sense, etc. will be missing and they won’t get there.

So in the end this book will have very little, if any, effect on the way poker is actually played.

Just call me an optimist.

I Think you are probably right, I am just keen to get it as soon as possible.

Peter

April is a long wait.I’m sure it will be worth it
that’s all i have to say

[Quote]Of the 10% that read it carefully, about 90% of those will lack some characteristic they need to make effective use of the information. Discipline, or persistence, or plain ol’ common sense, etc. will be missing and they won’t get there.[/Quote]

Or read it and apply the concepts incorrectly and pour even more money into the table

I witnessed this one with SSHE. People fresh off their first reading were raising wildly with middle pair. They didn’t understand the concept Ed was explaining in his Q7s postflop concept example and the reason why the raise was correct.

I think The Q7s Hand in SSHE did more to change my game than anything else I have read. But I do see what you mean.

A lot of people don’t read to learn but to validate there already bad play as good, that is they take out of it what they wish and ignore the rest.

For example a lot of people would see this as justification to call woth Q7s under the gun as it is obviously a powerful hand lol.

Long live books that teach some and validate bad play in others.

PeterL

My Poker Blog

Just rewatched Rounders the other night. Will there be a chapter on the use of Oreo cookies to narrow your opponent’s hand range?

Will the new book be published by 2+2, given what a certain member of your household has to say about one of their principals?

While I think this sounds like a great book, and I will no doubt buy it, I think every specific corner of the world deserves a bit of light - when someone makes a specific book about Micro NL, it will be a big hit.

I’ve been playing limit for the past 18 months and just started playing no-limit trying the short stack approach outlined in GSIH.
I can’t wait for the new book but will it be too advanced for newbies like me?
Regards Paul.

I cant wait for the book to come out now after reading that it will contain answers to the sort of questions similar to what I posed here.

Shouldnt this book be out soon?

i read the book. very interesting