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You are way off base here. This is a great book and must reading for big bet players. Mason gave it a very positive review as well in the past. I don't mean to imply it is perfect, and Mason indeed commented that he wished that they has divulged more "secrets". WRT NL in particular, reading the archives here and all that Ray Zee has posted about big bet in the past would reveal a lot of stuff that they either didn't talk about explicitly, or just made a passing reference to. However its strongest points are those dealing with the mathematics of big bet poker and the impact on betting on a current street in regards to the sizes of bets on later streets, stack size adjustments, and what types of hands should be played in what positions and situations. There is a lot of deeper advice that can be missed in just one reading, when you should reread it and think carefully about smaller chunks of it. Also the hand examples you refer to, do in fact give explanations, albeit brief ones, for why you should or should not take a certain action. In fact if you didn't get much from the hand examples, then it is likely you didn't study the texts preceding them thoroughly enough.

As I said it is not perfect in that it is both not a complete course on big bet regarding NL especially, and in that it is densely packed with information that requires serious thought to unlock all the meaning from. But I guarantee that you will never be successful in big bet poker if you can't extract a lot of value from it.