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Old 06-21-2006, 07:36 PM
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Default Re: Theory of Poker -- Obvious information and boring as hell to read

Something semi-similar to this happens to me all the time with a lot of 2+2 books the first time through (TOP, HEFAP, SSHE, HOH, Poker essays).

I think, "That's pretty obvious, isn't it?"
Then when I re-read it later I might realize that it really is a fairly important point to concentrate on and that just because I 'kinda/sorta' realized it (or thought I could figure it out already) I didn't really have as solid a handle on the concept as I thought I did.


I think it has to do with the way the authors take a concept and explain it fairly clearly and simply.
Yes, yes, I know that some people think that some 2+2 books aren't written as well as they could be.
But this used to happen to me just as much with HEFAP and TOP.


I had a similar feeling that a lot of the HEFAP stuff was stuff I already knew even the first time I read it.
I had only learned how to play poker 3-4 months earlier and had played at a B&M maybe 2-3x.
I had no idea how much of it I was NOT getting.
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