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08-06-2007, 04:52 AM
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Re: Professional No-Limit Hold \'em Volume 1 Review Thread
OK, good news. I got assigned 16 hours of overtime this week.
I won't be spending much time with my wife, or playing much poker this week, but I can have all the junior people in my department do all the work while I hide in my office and read PNL. In fact, I just cracked out another 40 pages. So far I've finished The Basics, The Fundamentals and The REM Process. My favorite sections so far have, without a doubt, been Fundamentals in Practice and REM in Action. Fundamentals in Practice lays out a solid, ABC style of play based on "Level One" thinking. To be honest, this is the style I most often practice when I'm playing and it's the style most weak opponents will have. REM in Action, however, takes the reader past ABC and into "Level Two" thinking. This is the style that's so easy for me when I'm replying to a hand posted in the strat forums, or when I'm reviewing someone elses play during the monthly session reviews. I'm Daniel FREAKIN' Negreanu then. But at the table, when it's my money on the line, I struggle to estimate range, calculate pot equity and decide how to maximise my hand. Or rather, I struggle to follow through with my reads and put my chips on the line. With the REM process Matt & Sunny have outlined an excelent three step process for thinking through difficult NL situations. As a uNL player, where straight forward ABC play is the style that gets the money, the first 95 pages covering Basics & Fundamentals were well worth the price of the book. I am confident that the REM precess with have me regularly using "Level Two" thinking and take me out of uNL and into the low limits. And that I am less than half way through the book leaves me excited and looking forward to reading more. I have already posted my famous "Refreshingly Readable" mini-review in another thread. I would also like to agree with a previous poster that keeping the main body of the text uncluttered by putting all the "ifs, ands and buts" in the footnotes was an ingenious touch. I attribute the book's smooth readability to Ed's editing. Well done boys, well done. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] 
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07-23-2007, 07:29 PM
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Re: Professional No-Limit Hold \'em Volume 1 Review Thread
The book is great so far. I'm throught about the first 50 pages and should finish the fundamentals section tonight. I can't put it down. When theory and practice came out last year I started reading it like this, but couldn't comprehend it all. This is much better and maybe I can reat TandP now. Last book I read this fast was Largay's book, but this is even better! Love the basics section even if I use all of that stuff except implied odds which is probably why I play such a marginal game.
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#6
07-23-2007, 08:25 PM
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Re: Professional No-Limit Hold \'em Volume 1 Review Thread
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I can't wait for my copy to arrive, feel like a child waiting for Christmas lol! [/ QUOTE ]
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#8
07-23-2007, 08:40 PM
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Re: Professional No-Limit Hold \'em Volume 1 Review Thread
Every time I see a new message I am hoping for book discussion and I find quoted quotes...here I sit broken hearted..
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#9
07-23-2007, 11:00 PM
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Review of cover design
Just wanted to say that it's easily the best poker cover design I have ever seen.
Thank you Gonso!!! Matt
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#10
07-24-2007, 12:30 AM
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Re: Review of cover design
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Just wanted to say that it's easily the best poker cover design I have ever seen. Thank you Gonso!!! Matt [/ QUOTE ] Thank you, although I'm partial to the V2 blue color. I'm looking forward to the book like everyone else. Ok, back to reviews now
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