Professional No Limit Hold’em: Volume II Update

Hand reading (I’d say most of the book is about hand reading to some extent or another)

Fantastic! Hand reading has to be one of the weakest parts of my game and one of the most difficult things for me to get right. PNL1 was of great help with all the discussion about commitment but I welcome eagerly any text that will help me with hand reading.

Looking forward to another great book! I for one will be insta-purchasing my copy.

– dubiousdrift

Excellent! I heartily concur on hand-reading. The NLH topics most neglected in existing literature (IMHO) are:

1. Hand-reading
2. Play in the blinds
3. Dealing with aggression. Existing literature all seem to assume that your opponents are loose-passives. This may be true in many live games but there are many more TAGs and LAGs online.

Cool will definitely be buying this one.

And make sure you include a topic on playing while completely drunk, i think this is probably the biggest form of leakage for most players

Cool!!

Can’t wait. Gonna buy this as soon as it comes out.

Those topics are awesome! Keep up the good work !

Just discovered your site…frankly, I’ve been playing lots of razz poker. Have you taken up the frustration/winning habit of Razz yet?

Ed,
Looking forward to the book. My record is similar to yours, I’ve purchased 4 Ed Miller books in the last 4 years. =)

At this time I am still playing full-ring only. Can you briefly state adjustments when incorporating 6-max examples for someone like myself.

I know solid poker is solid poker regardless, and you mentally adjust your position for missing players. But also, from everything I’ve watched and read from you guys at Stox, they do play differently(aggession?etc.)

I know a lot of this would come from experience playing both, but since I don’t have that I was hoping you could give me somewhat of a nutshell response? thanks. JC

Hi Ed,

Great video on Stox about hand reading. Just downloaded it and watched the first half. The combinatronics (?) stuff is *exactly* the sort of information I’ve been wanting to wrap my head around.

I appreciate the fact that it’s geared to the microstakes, too. (Although, as you mention, it applies to higher stakes as well.)

Many thanks. I look forward to the next vids in this particular series.

I’m drooling (more than I usually do).

Good, good, good hard working guy!
BTW, I logged in and for the coment I had to type myself in

OH! That’s how it works…
My comment didn’t turn up, so I pressed ‘refresh’ button and: now my comment is up AND I’m logged in.
Good!
BTW, my coffee hobby keeps me up at that late hour and dreaming on a lever machine… I’m childish.

Pawel,

there appear to be times when a little milk in your coffee might be appropriate…

Hi Ed –

One thing I might mention — or add to my post above: I liked the new hand reading/combo vid a lot — but I’d like to see more info on how the specific values are derived.

In other words, the (52*51)/2 type math (for pf, for example).

For us non-math folks — or for me, at least — the idea of combos is strangely counterintuitive. Not sure why counting is so difficult — but it took me a lot of fiddling with paper and a deck of cards to even wrap my head around the idea of 6 combos with the four aces. Now I understand it’s the idea of (4*3)/2 — but it took me a while to figure that out and to see the underlying concept (even more important, I take it, than the result itself).

Still, a great vid — and the only stox vid I watched three times to get it down.

ditto on the hand-reading accolades!!!

How about an update on the ETA for Volume 2? I bought and read Vol 1. I would like to do the same with volume 2.

Please provide and updated status for Volume 2.

Thank you!!