[benfranklin]

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Mason's correct in that the book was marketed as an advanced strategy guide, but turned out to primarily be a meta-meta-game guide.

I was disappointed.

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Mason did not say that the book was marketed as a strategy guide. What he said was:

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the problem has to do with exactly what you, the reader, were expecting from this book as opposed to what this book is.

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In fact, the book had very little marketing, which may have added to the confusion. The only hard information on the book, prepublication, was the table of contents posted on Barry's site. It was fairly obvious from that TOC that the book was not a strategy text.

Mason also says that the subtitle can be misleading. I agree, but that is as a result of what people infer from it, as opposed to what Barry implies by it. The subtitle is "An Advanced Poker Guide". Too many people read that as "An Advanced Poker Strategy Guide".

I haven't read the book yet, but I intend to. I am not discouraged by all the negative reviews in the many different threads here, because most of them say essentially the same thing: the book is not what I wanted it to be.