Most surprising 'blunder' in an authoritative poker book?

[daveT]

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NLTP:

"By playing a strictly algarithmic style of pushing all in with 77 + and AJ+, you can beat all but the toughest games."

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This looks silly when taken out of context. He's referencing a small stack strategy from Ed Miller's book Getting Started in Hold'em to emphasize the intrinsic advantage of having a small stack. What David is saying happens to be true when you buy into a deep-stacked game with a short stack. This is backed up by many hours logged by Ed Miller using this strategy himself.

Also, NLHTAP goes on to read that although this strategy has a modest expectation it is a surefire way for a pro to slash his winrate.

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There was a discussion about this a while back, when I introduced a short-stack strategy (far more effective, but perhaps not as mindless) One person said that he used the above strategy for 100,000 hands and broke even. I hope winning expectation is a little better than this.

[Brocktoon]

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The probability of hitting quads on the flop when you hold a pair only 8-1 maybe i should re-think how i play small pairs

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Uh, can you read? Read your original quote and then read your last post. See the difference?

[Al Mirpuri]

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al, i live in montana which is wild like alaska but much warmer. so in essence i live in a baked alaska.

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LOL.

[SpaghettiMonster]

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Doyle Brunson said prayer cures cancer in Super/System

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In his case it did.

RZ

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Yeah, modern medicine is a big joke.

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Go research Doyles case, There was no modern medicial cure. The Doctors told him there was nothing they could do.

RZ

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Little did Doyle know that his guardian faun snuck into his bedroom and placed a mandrake root in a bowl of fresh milk under his bed, feeding it two drops of blood a day until the cancer disappeared. That's what really cured him, the prayer thing is just crazy talk.

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You're insane. He was touched by my noodly appendage, and obviously got well.

[KurtSF]

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The probability of hitting quads on the flop when you hold a pair only 8-1 maybe i should re-think how i play small pairs

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I don't think its math that is your issue here.

[Packard]

Most surprising blunder was Roy Cooke Play of Hands II.

Roy was in a set over set confrontation where Roy Cooke had
pocket 9's and opponent had pocket JJ

Flop came down J92 and Roy got into a raising war with his opponent.

Roy said that he had never seen one in 20+ years of playing poker? Was he serious? How did that get into print. The rest of the book is excellent though

[Quadstriker]

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The probability of hitting quads on the flop when you hold a pair only 8-1 maybe i should re-think how i play small pairs

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Maybe you should retake 6th grade english class instead.