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It seems as though most of the book is concerned with overly complex lines perhaps in dealing with top pair ?

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Good one pair hands can be difficult to play. At awkward stack sizes, often you have to check the turn in position for pot control and to induce what you hope are bluffs. In so doing, you give free cards. It's not ideal.

PNL solves the top pair problem with stack to pot ratio manipulation. But there's a lot more to the book than this one topic.

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OK this all seems bass-ackwards to me. Why go into contortions with AQo, as mentioned in a post by one of the authors, in the hopes that AJo donk 3-bets so you can donk 4-bet? I mean, this is simply ludicrous on its face, trying to get so much money in with a highly marginal hand. How often will this donkbet sequence really happen, and what if AK reraises? And who cares if you can't bet the flop and jam the turn with TPTK, since when did that become the goal? Play some poker. Yeesh.

Stack to pot ratio IS critical. Of course. The trick is to know how to play various types of hands for various ratios with various reads. That's what we do here. Not go into contortions, getting a ton of money in with AQo so that, yay, now we can bet the flop and jam the turn if we hit!!! [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]