Professional No-Limit Hold 'em Volume 1 Review Thread

[Gonso]

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I would like to see 3 or 4 volumes, not 2, if the authors think they have that much to say.

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Much appreciated dthf! If we're still game for writing you'll see at least four.

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Why stop there

There are many colors

[Buconero]

Matt,

After intending to spend 20-30 mins skimming the book I've just returned to the real world more than 4 hours later!

Most of the focus of the book is on manipulating the SPR to suit you and not your opponents. While I intuitively understood some of the principles of SPR before reading chunks of the book I now realize just how much more thorough I'm going to have to be in implementing it into my game. I shudder when I think of how badly I've been misplaying top pair hands against aggressive opponents. There is no doubt that this book will be of great help to all players up to Mid Stakes. Its refreshing to see a systematic treatment of how stack sizes influence the way a hand is played - a subject that is almost completely ignored by other NLH books.

[Buconero]

Is this a continuity error?:

Halfway down p275 the book states "The tight player doubled up in the previous hand, so now his stack size is over $1,000." But in the previous hand the tight player bet the flop and everybody folded.

[Professionalpoker]

Page 275 already? Take the Evelyn Wood class?

[Buconero]

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Page 275 already? Take the Evelyn Wood class?

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[img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Not quite. Years of needing to quickly look up reference material in computer manuals has left me unable to read anything linearly. I skim, diving in at interesting points to read before resuming skimming. Combine that with impatience (I just moved straight to the final couple of chapters of Harry Potter 7) and my reading skills are a mess!

[Sunny Mehta]

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Is this a continuity error?:

Halfway down p275 the book states "The tight player doubled up in the previous hand, so now his stack size is over $1,000." But in the previous hand the tight player bet the flop and everybody folded.

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good catch....I'll have to double-check the misprint...we'll fix it for the next edition....thanks....

[dthf90210]

Should we start a separate Harry Potter thread? Is that by 2+2? They wish!

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Its refreshing to see a systematic treatment of how stack sizes influence the way a hand is played - a subject that is almost completely ignored by other NLH books.

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Are there really any good NL books to date besides David & Ed's NTP and Mat/Sunny/Ed's PNL? Honestly all the others I have picked up were bad... PNL is going to set the bar so high, it only gets better from this point forward guys and gals!

[phydaux]

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Are there really any good NL books to date besides David & Ed's NTP and Mat/Sunny/Ed's PNL? Honestly all the others I have picked up were bad... PNL is going to set the bar so high, it only gets better from this point forward guys and gals!

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And you know what? I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

You are right, though. I think PNL is the first book to ever cover the play of a NL hold'em hand after the flop.

[SixT4]

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REM?

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Range, Equity, Maximize. It describes how to think through no-limit problems.

REM in PNL1 does not include second/third level thinking about ranges. Volume 2 has a lot about impressions of ranges including second/third level thinking and related topics.

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I know it's a bit soon to be asking... but could you give a potential timeframe for the release of Volume 2? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]