[schroedy]

If you want to attack the terminology, fine.

Just don't state that the strategy is not optimal, when according to the careful definitions offered by the authors, it is.

The complaint is not that the strategy is not what the authors explain it be -- the complaint is that the terminology is confusing.

I am not done yet, but so far, the book does not purport to offer a strategy for HE that a robot could play (btw -- if this is what you want, Blair Rodman has a pretty good system in Kill Phil, and Blair told me that Sanford Wong looked it over on the math front and gave it his blessing, using inputs from Blair and Lee as to what kind of hands people tend to call all-ins with).

I have found that the Chen-Ankeman book is extremely helpful in examining the mathematics behind some of the conventional wisdom surrounding the game of Hold Em.