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Over a year in the making, the book is finally ready. You can preorder Professional No-Limit Hold ‘em: Volume I
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Ed,
Congratulations!
Finishing one’s work shall be joy&celebration time, best wishes!
Well done Ed, I just pre-ordered my copy.
Now you can start work on Volume two 
Ed said> You can preorder Professional No-Limit Hold ‘em: Volume I by Matt Flynn, Sunny Mehta, and Yours Truly
Hmmm, is Yours Truly a poker author we haven’t heard of yet?
Just Kidding…
At that wasn’t any worse than the “I never knew that Matt, Sunny and Ed all looked so much alike” comment in the 2+2 thread.
Congrats Ed I will definitely be buying this book!
I dont know anything about NL, is this a good book to start?
Ed, I’d like to second Wouter’s comment: could you give us a short heads-up who that book is targeted at (newby/experienced; online/b&m; cash/tourney; micro limit/high roller; heads-up/full ring; etc.)?
Would you regard any of your other books as a prerequisite to the new one (answer “ALL” and everybody will buy them as a bundle :))?
Are there any quizzes in the book?
By the way: with so many books out by now I expect you to provide us with decent NPA-bookends SOON!
If you can follow the discussion on this site, then the book is at a fine level for you. We assume you know some basic poker terms and are familiar with stuff like odds and counting outs. But we don’t assume you’re good at no-limit already or anything… I think the book would be good for a limit hold’em player who’s never played a hand of no-limit yet, for example. Definitely if you’ve read the odds and board-reading/interpretation sections of SSHE you’re ready to jump right in.
The book is a bit different from your “standard” poker manual. It focuses largely on planning - thinking through a hand from beginning to end - to keep you out of tough situations and put your opponents in them. It’s about making sure your play is cohesive and your decisions work together to help you out. A ton of players, for instance, will do something preflop and on the flop that actually walks them right into a difficult situation on the turn. We think that if you plan things out from the start, you’ll avoid a lot of the, “Oh crap, what do I do now?” situations.
So, as such, it’s not really targeted for 6max vs. ring or online vs. b&m, as the planning process we teach works equally well in both. Likewise for stakes… the process works at $0.50-$1 and $25-$50. Naturally, the assumptions are different in those games, so you’ll probably actually play hands differently in different games, but the process we teach stays the same.
It’s targeted for cash games, but what we talk about could also be useful for tournament players, particularly when the stacks are deep.
There are a ton of examples throughout the book and some sections of quizzes to help you digest the material. I think, overall, a lot of players .. even some who already do well in pretty big games.. will have a couple serious light bulb moments when they read it.
Ed,
thanks for this intro. To me this sounds really interesting, because what I try to learn is knowing how to THINK (opposed to “knowing” how to PLAY by using starting hand charts etc.).
Looks like a definite buy to me (once I figure out how to keep all of your books from falling over since you failed on the bookends… :)).
I preordered today. I really enjoyed NLHTAP and GSIH and I’m sure this one will be great too.
I pre-ordered a few days ago.
Ed,
Do you recommend that this new book be read before or after NLHE:TAP?
Tony82,
I think either order is fine, but if I had to pick one, I’d say read the new book first, then NLHTAP. But it’s definitely not a progression from easier to harder… it’s different content.
[...] Hold ‘em , written with Matt Flynn and Sunny Mehta, is due out soon. He’s discussed Professional No Limit on his poker blog a few times and an excerpt has been published at Two Plus Two: “The most [...]
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I got this today:
“Hello from Amazon.com.
We’re writing about the order you placed on June 20 2007 04:10 PDT.
Unfortunately, we are unable to ship the item(s) as soon as we expected and need to provide you with a new estimate of when the item(s) may be delivered:
Matt Flynn (Author), et al “Professional No-Limit Hold ‘em: Volume I” [Paperback]
Estimated arrival date: 08/22/2007 - 09/14/2007
We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this delay.”
What’s going on here??? Are you trying to torture us???
Or are you trying to turn us into Harry Potter fans in order to kill our time until the arrival of your book??
Don’t take it too seriously. I don’t think Amazon knows what they’re talking about.
Nothing’s been delayed on the production side. Mason has books and is shipping them out already. It’s probably some automated script they have that sends notices like that out.
What’s happening with Prof. Holden Vol 1? I received an e-mail this morning from Amazon about my preordered copy, & they said it wouldn’t be available until Aug.7-14.
Thanks,
Bill
Hey, it’s also at Barne’s & Noble: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=188068540X&itm=2