[dirty banana2007]

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I confess that I did not read the whole book. I just couldn't continue.
I got to page 53 of Professional No Limit Hold'em, Volume One. I would (generously) estimate the TOTAL amount of substantive content through page 53 at one and a half pages. I have never before read a book, of any kind, on any subject, with less content 50 pages in.


I would be surprised if you have ever read a book all the way through that is larger than 50 pages.


In addition to the "content" itself, everything about the book is designed to add as many pages as possible. I'm talking about a typeface that's too large, line spacing (the spaces between the individual lines of type) that is so huge it actually makes the book harder to read, idiotic and unnecessarily huge card illustrations (a two plus two tradition), silly mathematical equations that take up a third of a page and which aren't necessary to make a point (were a point being made in the first place), an absolutely first grade chart (that occupies a third of a page) that says nothing more than how many big blinds a small and large stack are (and this has already been fully addressed in the text, to the tune at least a page of filler), filler pages that "introduce" each "section" of the book, (the book is replete with hyperbolic prose that promises the reader everything that the book is about to, but does not, deliver).

the layout reminds me of the Harrington series, did you not like those either?


A godawful book that severely insults the reader. I am taking all wagers on whether Two Plus Two releases a "Volume Two" to Professional No Limit Holdem. My money's on the under.

Cool!! ....easy money , [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

if you make wagers as bad as these, i am surprised you have money to play poker [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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