Short Handed NL - Killer Poker

[nomdeplume]

So Doc, is this book any good?

[phydaux]

Yeah, it stands for Mike Caro University Notation. It's really awkward and it takes up too much space in the pages.

And since nearly everyone who reads poker books also reads poker forums, and nearly every hand history converter uses a similar layout, it's utterly unnessasary.

[AKoffsuit]

we need more reviews of this book so doc if you read this tell us more

about the mcu notation:
I don't have a problem with that notation actually i've never seen it before so i've gotten used to it quickly

[Doc T River]

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Yeah, it stands for Mike Caro University Notation. It's really awkward and it takes up too much space in the pages.

And since nearly everyone who reads poker books also reads poker forums, and nearly every hand history converter uses a similar layout, it's utterly unnessasary.

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Sorry for not understanding, but what is utterly unnecessary? Being kind enough to spell out abbreviations or acronyms the first time you use one or the MCU thingie (sorry for the highly technical term - thingie - but I just woke up)?

As to those asking for reviews, I would only be able to tell you if the book was well written, well organized, and easy to understand. I would not be able to tell you if the strategies are sound.

And if I tried to tell you if the strategies were sound, I would fall into the same trap I have seen other posters fall into. That being declaring a book good or bad because it dooes or does not suggest a strategy the poster is already using.

Also, it might be a while before I get to reading Killer Poker Shorthanded. I am pretty much a self taught player, who got his start in bar poker, and over the years I have acquired about forty poker books, but I have read very few.

In terms of book learning, I have decided to go back to school as it were and so I am trying to find time to read some of the more basic of the books first.

After typing all of the above, I did flip through KPSH and there is virtually no math. There are one or two long equations dealing with putting your opponent on a hand, but that is about the extent of it.

[AKoffsuit]

Atleast i know that it deals with shorthanded no limit wich i guess most of us are interested in

[Masakik]

how do you know this is NO LIMIT? it doesnt say anything on the title? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0818407...ASIN=0818407220

[dirty banana2007]

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how do you know this is NO LIMIT? it doesnt say anything on the title? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0818407...ASIN=0818407220

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Nope, but someone (Doc T River ) says so on earlier on this thread! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Doc T River]

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how do you know this is NO LIMIT? it doesnt say anything on the title? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0818407...ASIN=0818407220

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The reason I know is that I flipped through the book.

[Doc T River]

Sorry for making another post, but I cannot figure out how to edit my last post.

One thing on the book's cover really rang true for me. It is "shorthanded hold'em means long green for you."

I was at a casino in Oklahoma playing $1/$2 NL at a full table of nine. I was losing my shirt. My $200 buy-in shrank to $75 until the table got short handed due to people breaking for dinner. Since people were planning to come back and leaving their chips on the table, no new players were able to be seated. Not having to deal with the minefield that a full table can be really helped. I made my money back and more.

This is one book I am really interested in reading.

[Masakik]

Ordered the book, idk when it'll come... I'll give you my thoughts when i do read it. I currently winning at 1/2 to 3/6 NL Hold'em Online.