Re: The dirty little secret about Miller\'s book for players with PT
Nice Post, but to answer your subject line, SSHE was written for mostly low limit 2/4 to 5/10 live. The kind of skill level in those games translates to only online 2/4 and some loose 3/6 games, and only when you get to 3/6 does blind play matter significantly. Therefore blind play is only significant at levels beyond the scope of the book.
I think to write good advice about blind play would have made SSHE a lot thicker than it is now. It's also a complicated subject matter that an inexperienced player might take the advice and lose more with it than if he hadn't read anything at all about it. This might even decrease book sales and just isn't worth all the extra pages.
What Ed does in SSHE is show the low limit player all of the tools to fix their biggest leaks and improve dramatically into a winning player. Teaching someone pot equity, not to fold a decent hand in a monstrous pot, and raising ATs on the button after many limpers will improve someone much more than blind play at the low limits.
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