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The strategy in the book is planning your hands around commitment. Volume 2 is going to be planning your hands around thievery. The latter is more successful in my game, because there aren't many players committing to pots with weak hands.

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Your statement is still nonsensical. The book doesn't say to commit, or that your opponents will be committing with weak hands, so you can't say the "strategy" is not optimal. "Planning your hands around commitment" does not mean you commit or that your opponents to commit. In fact, plenty of time is spent discussing bet sizing to avoid commitment. Have you read the book?

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Without wasting too much more of my time...

The book certainly suggests certain and specific strategies throughout it.

One example is an entire section on targeting specific SPR by taking oftentimes peculiar preflop betting lines so that commitment decisions are easy postflop.

However, if your game revolves around stealing, you oftentimes want awkward SPRs for top-pair type hands. In which case most of that section won't apply to your overall game plan.

That's just one example of several. I'm actually a little bit dumbfounded that you don't think the book discusses strategies and that some of these strategies might not be optimal in certain games or situations.

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Clearly the book outlines strategies and clearly some of the strategies are good in certain games and not others (you are backpedaling now.) But it is "strategy" in the sense that it explains SPR as a way to achieve what you want to achieve. To say "committing with top pair doesn't work in my games" is completely missing the point. There is no one strategy in the book. As I said, it's like pot odds. You use it to guide your decisions. It is not a strategy per se. You should use SPR to your advantage no matter what your game. The same SPR will mean 2 completely different things in different games and different situations. That is not the point. The point is to understand the principles. The principles apply to all poker games. It's up to you to decide if and SPR of 7 is good in your current situation or not. The book gives you advice on how to do that. But it's not irrelevant to any game. If SPR of 7 is to be avoided, then avoid it. If it's to be desired, then obtain it. The book shows you how to try. There are no guarantees because your opponents might actually be playing good poker.