[Sunny Mehta]

guys,

SPR is indeed a "concept". It's a tool to help you bridge the relationship between preflop actions and postflop actions. We will spend a lot more specifically on postflop in Volume Two, but we still made clear several things in V.1 that some of you seem to be glossing over.

First off, your Max and Target SPRs are based heavily on how your opponent plays - that's key. You are OFTEN gonna want different SPRs against fish than you are against good players.

Secondly, we mention throughout the text that commitment is a conditional decision. How and whether you commit can change drastically depending on things like not only your SPR, but the next card, or HOW THE MONEY GOES IN POSTFLOP - i.e. - the line you and your opponents take. The latter thing is especially important against better players. You might fold a hand if you go bet-bet and your opponent raises the turn, and commit with the same hand against the same opponent if the action goes check-bet or some other variation in postflop line.

Nowhere do we state that the "point" of SPR is so that you can go pot-pot-pot or always jam all-in on the flop or whatever other nonsense. We state throughout the chapter that the "point" of SPR is TO MAKE POSTFLOP PLAY EASIER. Which it absolutely does.

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-S