How to Dominate $1 and $2 No Limit Hold'em

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ok I have read this book, and corresponded briefly with the author about the book. It wasn't because I didnt understand the book, at the time it was because I was providing my personal info so i could recieve a corrected version of the book.

I am happy to say that I was sent a copy of the book with the improved printing free of charge.
and on the inside of the cover was the corrections that was shared.

my original statement that I pmed the author
"was going to post that this book was intended to be a textbook, studied over time and not an over night book to make you a dominator."
further study of the book i sincerly believe this is the case still.

one thing that I took some getting used to in terms of thinking was how 50 preflop hands charts stood out as differnt for the emphasis was on hands that win the most money as opposed to hands that win the most time.
in thinking of that since thing, winning the most, doesn't equate to winning the biggest pots.

yet in thinking further upon that,, in order to effectively know how to use these reccomend hands to get the most money as opposed to winning the most, one has to know how to play these hands against all opponets.

it is for this reason that one is shown how to play the differnt styles over time so the reader could use this as a textbook for learning how to play best as maniac and then how to combat this.

always the emphasis is the people game as opposed to a numbers game, or the correct play game.

yet how can one learn how a person plays when we are all unique. the answer is not the individual person but the maniac person, or the passive person.
that is why learning the styles before starting to learn the dominator style is essential.
how can one become davinci without learning the basics and nunces of every style before specializing.

of course the dominator is a term just as the maniac is just a term and a style.
so the dominator could easily be taken up and adapted by anyone.
you would have the slightly more aggressive dominator or the slightly more rockish dominator.

I remember one teaching is , if you start to wait for a premium hand ,, you are no longer dominating.
that is of course taken out of context, and is not the exact quote.

in the end it all comes down to this,, once you are playing the cards and not the person , you are no longer the dominator.
once you are playing postion and just c betting for no reason..
you are no longer the dominator but a betting robot.

personaly i found this book a great way to put people on ranges based on their style,
and a great primer on how to play people.

conversly I didn't think tom hellmuth was a mistake when i first read it for before that , there was a mention of tom and jerry and so I thought the author was calling phill hellmuth "tom hellmuth" to have us think of him as tom from the tom and jerry cartoon.
and so when it became clear he didnt' mean that .
eheh i was a fool [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]