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Thank you all for your replies on Kill Everyone and the Mark Vos chapter. Mark's chapter provides useful expert insights into 6-max cash game play which is becoming increasingly popular and about which precious little has been written. It's billed as a bonus chapter which is exactly what it is. Kill Everyone would have been 323 pages long without Mark's 25 page chapter so it certainly wasn't used to fill pages. The chapter is solid, and it relates well to deep-stack play in 6-max tournaments which also seem to be rising in popularity although some casinos hate to spread them because they use up a lot of tables. There is a 6-max NLHE tournament each year at the Aussie Millions including the upcoming one in January 2008.
It seems to be virtually a concensus universalis of those that have responded that the chapter should survive on re-print. We'll tie it in a bit better to deep-stack 6-max tournament play for continuity for tournament players, but short-handed cash game players have provided positive feedback about the chapter as well. Hopefully Mason, for whom we have great respect, won't ding us too badly for it's inclusion when he finds the time to review the book.

As for playing against hyperlags as questioned above by JLD, it's not easy and close to impossible without often taking stack-threatening risks. You have to put them on a range of hands and act accordingly based on your perception of their range which is often quite wide. The charts on page 72-73 of Kill Everyone provide an unexploitable re-steal strategy at varying CSIs(m)based on an opponents presumed range.

Yes, JLD TP-decent kicker is often enough to get it all in versus a hyper-LAG who is in the majority of pots and doesn't stop firing hot or cold. I've pushed with TP after being check-raised on the flop by super-aggressive players on a number of occassions. In each instance they folded so I can't tell you what they had, but my guess is they had something such as second or third pair, or draws that were now getting the wrong price.

Thank you all again for your replies and kind words about Kill Everyone.

Regards,

Lee Nelson