Some top players dislike NLHTAP: Why?

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The "theory" of NL poker boils down to "do that which results in the highest EV".

Thank you very much, I think I already knew that. Granted, sometimes we milk, but it's not because we don't understand EV, it's because we might misjudge how much our opponents would call and how often. The book does not help very much at all with the judging part.


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Jeff, this is spot on.

At this point the cookbook haterz will make accusations of needing to be spoon fed recipes rather than thinking through things for ourselves. But anyone reading NLTAP is going to have a hard time making +EV decisions without some cookbook help or context with the judging part.

The other big problem with the book is that it takes too long discussing those things that can be most easily reduced to math calcs (eg shoving the nuts), and ignores more common real money making stuff that can't be so easily modelled.

In other words the book ignores the NL forest, but provides good analytic discussion of some of the lesser known trees...

And of course, the book has no structure whatsoever.