I just ordered Angel Largay's book, What parts are bad?

[player]

IMO the book is crap! But... check the hand rankings at the back... Many many mistakes. So many in fact it should be taken off the shelve.

[fraac]

Examples? I have a pencil to correct it with.

[seemorenuts]

How do you go about ascertaining the veracity of those tables at the back of the book, 'player?'

[Se7enTwo]

I did a lot of research before buying my first poker book & ended up w/ this one.
It should be here in a about a week.
As a semi-noob player w/ no previous reading experience I will come back & post my thoughts about the book.
(that's twice 'player' has trashed the book in this thread w/ no real backing to his comments....so I didn't put much thought into what he said)

[Hallett]

There are a couple of errors, but they don't take away from the overall quality of the book. The funniest one, was where he was talking about straddling a lot, especially shorthanded. He uses an example of a 2/5 game, and he straddles, and says "there is $17 there to be stolen" or something like that... Completely forgetting that $10 of it was his already...

But the book is very good for low limit no limit poker, played live. I would like to sit and watch this fellow play, he seems to have a very good handle on the games he plays.

[jiacstrap]

I just got my copy today and started reading the first two chapters. I like his writing style a lot and he explains very in depth that many of these concepts should be read even by expert players just to understand the process of learning of beginning players.

[Packard]

I just read Angels book in 2 days after I got it.

I was hoping that it would be much better.

Angel seems to always be playing the nuts or another very strong hand. Angel also calls big preflop raises against low limit players with hands like 76s which have almost no immediate value and can be flush undered when 4 of the same suit hit the board. Yes I understand implied odds and all but these hands are hard to hit the flop with and hard to bust people with overpairs. Angel seems to disregard the chance of a reraise from players behind him when he calls. Angel doesn't cover how to play a common situation flop with these hands where a player might hit mid or bottom pair with a 3flush or 3straight although Angel always gets great flops so why bother writing how to play these kind of flops?

There is one absurd part of the book where he buys in a 1-2 NL game for $100 and goes all in for $100 preflop with an 82suited!! (page 167.) This move is done against 5 other players who have also put in $100 preflop. I don't understand this although Angel tried to explain it in a pot odds way. Of course Angel hits trip deuces on the flop and wins a giant pot, busting a player with KK.

There is some good info about LLNL games in this book. The beginning of the book reads a lot like a rewritten version of Sklansky and other previous works on mathematics, pot odds, implied odds ( I was hoping the implied odds section would be longer) etc. The reader needs to seperate the good from the bad in this book. Yes there is some good in this book.

[stingray2222]

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[Skleice]

After reading 90% of the standard lit (Sklansky, Gordon, Harrington, Brunson, etc) I turned to this one. I liked the beginning section and found the quizzes to be helpful. I also liked the section on player types. However, after finishing the whole thing, I'm left feeling a little empty. Some points I really got into. Like when he talks about decision making against a poor opponent. He advocates playing small ball until the river to not allow your opponent to suck out on you. Rather than push with a strong hand, he feels it is better for you to allow you opponent to make many mistakes throughout the hand, rather than one big one at the beginning (which he may win anyway). Also, all of his points of deception are good. Also the understanding of implied odds and stack sizes, etc. I guess I just have mixed feelings about it. Loved some of it and felt 'meh' about alot of it too.

[stingray2222]

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