Professional No-Limit Hold 'em Volume 1 Review Thread

[APatterson]

Am I the only one disappointed with this book?

The discussion of REM, for what it covers, is good, but it is hardly used again through out the rest of the book.
When I heard about REM in the book I kind of expected a discussion of hand ranges for your opponents and for yourself. So for every action you are representing a range of hands yourself to which your opponent is trying to maximise his equity against. I was expecting a discussion of how to make your own strategy hard to exploit, while maximising profit.

How many players following this book are going to be raising big with TPTK type hands, raising medium amounts with drawing hands and keeping the pot small otherwise? Surely that can't be a good strategy, as it is exploitable. The book basically promotes a preflop bet that is proportional to hand strength. I don't think a passing comment to mix it up or bluff sometimes cuts it. How to mix it up and when to bluff are critical parts of good strategy that are hardly covered at all.

It seems to me that the discussion of stack to pot ratios is just implied odds, whether you are giving them or receiving them. Why use different terminology to that we already use to?