[mvdgaag]

Love the quote jeff... It's true and it's what a good poker book should do: learn to play by learning to think and understand what is happening.

A cookbook recipy style strategy will only get you so far and doesn't make you a better player, but hands you something that likely works better than a naive approach, but you'll never know why.

PNL is a great example of a book that makes you think and the recommendations follow directly from the theory explained in the book.

Although some critiques here are very legitimate, some show that the posters are really not looking to understand the game, but want a 'brian townsend recipy' that can be applied brainlessly instead and if something doesn't stroke with the recipy it cannot be any good. Too bad that's the best argument that we can see here, but very nice there are still people that think this way. They'll never learn and we'll keep some fish in the tank.