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Old 09-28-2007, 04:04 AM
Copernicus Copernicus is offline
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Default Re: Any good books on playing small ball?

Lindgren's is the best, but that doesnt say too much. Only about 20 pages of it are even worth reading. There isnt that much to small ball to put into print that isnt covered elsewhere though. The emphasis is on post-flop play, and getting to the flop cheaply but with a variety of preflop actions (limp, minraise, "standard" raise) to disguise your holdings. If you understand SPR (which to me isnt much more than systemizing pre-flop implied odds) and therefore no when to play drawing hands, the rest of small ball is developing hand reading skills. It is the most direct application of the Fundamental Theorem of Poker...make your opponent play differently than they would if they could see your cards.

Kill Phil is the opposite of smallball, and HoH is standard TAG deep stacked, layered on top of what is essentially
SPR shortstacked.
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