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All, in general my feelings are:

Stox presented a tight and disciplined approach based on years of experience and nearly 1 million hands.

Borer and Mak presented a looser, more advanced strategy that pushes more small edge. I agree it was presented in a less thorough and more speculative (and contained plenty of errors) manner.

That's why I think Stox's book is a good precursor to Borer and Mak's. Stox lays out a conservative groundwork and this level of understanding is necessary to filter out the garbage and pull out the golden nuggets in Borer and Mak's book.