[David Sklansky]

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scientize,

There isn't much of anything in poker books that will help you beat high stakes games. There are books that will help you on your way to that road, by helping you at the beginning and intermediate level.

I am the only poker book author who plays in and beats the high stakes games. (Doyle had collaborators.)

Your post reminds me of when Michael Konik suggested that all of the players in Poker Superstars 2 had read The Theory of Poker by Sklansky. In actuality, half of the field were born in other countries and had probably never read a book in English.

And to the person who thinks that there are teams in the biggest game, there aren't. Not all the players are as good as you might think. And it often depends on which games are played. Lately, I have decided to only play when we play at least 6 games. I don't want to fight the specialists, because my edge is too small or nonexistent playing other good players' best games.

Barry

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I take that as an admission that I was right when I stated a few years ago that the mega stakes players would not gladly admit "tag teams" composed of 300-600 specialists.

As to your comment about teams, do you think you could catch it if the top players did nothing but tell each other their hole cards but did NOT play the same money?

As for the fact that perhaps only half of the most successful 500 players have not read TOP I will reiterate what I said before. Which in a nutshell is that since less than 5% of ALL aspiring poker players have read it you are ten times as likely to succeed if you have.