[BarronVangorToth]

The subtitle is poor - especially for what the book is.

When you set that aside and, as you said, examine whether it does what it is trying to do well, I think it does.

ESPECIALLY when you consider in the last few years the number of good non-2+2 poker-related books and list The Professor Banker and Suicide King, and King Yao's Weighing the Odds, and now Barry's Ace on the River.

I'm guessing some (incorrectly) thought that this would magically turn $20-$40 players into people who could hang with Barry and Phil Ivey and whomever else at the $4K-$8K game.

Considering how bad most non-2+2 poker books by name professionals turn out to be, this book could have been so much worse but not really a whole lot better, when you look at what Barry was trying to do with the text.

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