[Mason Malmuth]

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In addition to the "content" itself, everything about the book is designed to add as many pages as possible. I'm talking about a typeface that's too large, line spacing (the spaces between the individual lines of type) that is so huge it actually makes the book harder to read, idiotic and unnecessarily huge card illustrations (a two plus two tradition), silly mathematical equations that take up a third of a page and which aren't necessary to make a point (were a point being made in the first place), an absolutely first grade chart (that occupies a third of a page) that says nothing more than how many big blinds a small and large stack are (and this has already been fully addressed in the text, to the tune at least a page of filler), filler pages that "introduce" each "section" of the book, (the book is replete with hyperbolic prose that promises the reader everything that the book is about to, but does not, deliver).


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We use Times New Roman print with a point-size of 11.5. That's actually a smaller print size than what's in almost all other poker books. But we use this print size because over the years we gradually concluded that this was the right size to use. In other posts, you have praised the Harrington on Hold 'em books. They are type set to the exact same standards.

The line spacing between the lines is the standard setting which our word processing program automatically generates. It is the exact same spacing used in all our books.

As for card pictures, we add these mainly to break up the monotony of continued text. We have been doing this for almost twenty years and think we do this pretty well.

As for filler pages that introduce each section of the book, this is again Two Plus Two style and we do it in almost all of our books.

MM