[Albert Moulton]

I just finished your book. Fantastic!

I can't wait for Volume 2. Hopefully that will have a bunch of tactical examples that flesh out the concepts in Volume 1.

Things I hope to see in Volume 2:

1. The detailed effect of reraising OOP and in position preflop at different blind levels. 100bb 6-max games are full of wide-ranging re-raises preflop. It's like a game of super chicken sometimes... "Oh, so you have a big pair? Sure you do, but mines bigger than yours..." while both are holding KQs and JJ. Nevertheless, that kind of preflop aggression seems to pay off for some, and not for others. Why, and what does their hyper SPR inflation do to that game?

2. Stealing lines and examples when the SPR is 13 and you have position on the raiser in heads up and 3-way pots. Float/steal? Raise the cb? call/raise a 2nd barrel? call/call/push the river? You talk a lot about stealing, but some detailed examples based on REM and SPR + position would be useful.

3. The book Holdem for Advanced Players has a big section on how to exploit various tendencies of other players in limit hold em: calls too much, bluffs too much, folds too much, etc. While NL has many of the same exploitable weaknesses in the players, the details on how to spot them and exploit them must be different from limit to NL. So, what are the common exploitable weaknesses, and how do you use SPR, REM and position to maximize your exploitation of those weaknesses in a NL game.

4. How does short-handed play change the nature of the game, and why? And how does SPR and REM change from full ring to 6-max to heads up, and why?

5. At the river in position, when do you value bet and when do you check behind with a good, but not great hand based on REM. How much is the right amount and why?

6. How do you plan bluffs using SPR and REM. For example, when you "plan your hand," do you plan a 3rd barrel when semi-bluffing (either in position or OOP) if you miss every street even before you make the first bet? In other words, is there a commitment threshold for a bluff just as their is for a made hand? I suspect there is. Once 1/3 of you stack goes in, you usually don't want to fold without a good reason - even when you're bluffing. So, do you need a commitment plan when bluffing when you make that 10% bet so you know whether and when to fire the 2nd and final all-in barrels based on REM? What makes a good bluff vs a bad bluff?

7. Tactics for LAGGy small-ball poker at a table full of nits. When you're playing with a bunch of set farmers and tight aggressives, is there a way to loosen up and make money with lots of small pots and a few monsters where you end up with a straight vs a TAG with a set, etc.

8. Changing gears. When, why, and how? When do you tighten or loosen up and why? How does SPR and REM change when changing gears, or considering a change of gear?

Well, that's all at the moment.

I really can't wait for the next one.

I'm trying to work committment threshold, REM, max and target SPR into my strat posts in the FR forum. We'll see how it goes.