Winning Texas Hold'em

[uDevil]

A while ago, I promised I would buy Matt Maroon's book, Winning Texas Hold'em, which I have. I was partly motivated by some posts in this forum saying that the short-handed section of the book was quite good. So when I got the book I read that section first. On the positive side, I like his writing style, which is conversational and direct. However, I found the content of the SH section a little disappointing, so I'm putting off reading the rest of the book for a while.

The biggest problem I saw was his reasoning for playing more hands in SH games. He says you should play more hands because the of the increased cost of the blinds per hand. This (incorrect) perspective has him recommending what seems to me to be overly loose play before the flop. Though for an expert these extra hands may be slightly +EV, I worry they might be -EV for most of his readers.

I found most of the rest of the advice in this short section to be pretty standard: don't open limp, play big cards and pairs, raise weak limpers, reraise or fold, play aggressively on the flop, defend your blinds more, and so on.

Since I did find a couple of nuggets of advice that I think will help my game, I wouldn't withhold a recommendation at this point; I was just expecting a bit more. Sorry, Matt.