Which Book Should I Write Next?

[bestbluff]

In "about this forum" you write that if anybody has a question for you they can sneak it in as a reply. I hope it is ok that i do it here.

The question is concerning your book No Limit Hold'em - Theory and Pratice page 216.

You write the following EV equation:
0=(0.935)($3)+(0.0645)[(0.433)($X+$3)+(0.567)(-$X)]

Shouldn't the part [(0.433)($X+$3)+(0.567)(-$X)] have been [(0.433)($X-$1+$3)+(0.567)(-$X)]?

Your opponent has already put a $2 big blind while you have only put the $1 small blind. When you push he therefore only has to call $X-$1.

For hands with high Sklansky-Chubukov numbers, like the AK hand in the example, this difference in the EV equation is of little practical importance, but i would guess that the difference in the Sklansky-Chubukov number for a hand like Q4 would be significantly affected by the extra $1.