What would you like to see covered in the upcoming SSNL book?

[Grunch]

Hi, Sunny:

I'm really glad you asked this question. I'll try to answer in more depth later, but for now I'd like to reiterate and invitation I PMed to Ed Miller to frequent our Digest Posts and the so-called 'Pooh-Bah Posts' linked in the Master Sticky of this forum. The tactical issues which we in the SSNL community find most difficult to get our arms around are also the ones that generate the best posts in this forum. Those posts are highlighted in the Digests and the PBP lists.

For my part, I'll do what I can to get Digest posts created more regularly, and try to get them a little more focused on our 'issues'.

One thing I'd like to mention right off the bat that I know is a very common problem here is tactical & strategic adjustments that players make when moving from limit games to no-limit games. I made this switch in earnest myself a little over a year ago as a limit player, and I found it to be very difficult. My contention since has always been that limit hold'em and no-limit hold'em are so different that they might as well have different names. The switch seems to be more difficult for limit players with more experience, presumably because they are so good at limit and the games are so different.

I posted a summary of my thoughts of these differences some time ago in this post (link), but in my opinion this subject deserves much more coverage. It is a very frequently-asked question on this forum, and one which has not been answered sufficiently (although there have been recent attempts which were valuable).

Thanks for stopping by, and good luck with the book! I, for one, am looking forward to reading it very much.

- Grunch

Edit to say that while I don't now agree 100% percent with everything I said in my linked post above, I do agree with the majority of it. Those things I don't agree with now completely also tend to be situational.

[Matt Flynn]

Hi Grunch,

I've seen the digest posts and am following. We will address some of the subjects.

Would you sticky this thread please.

Thanks -

Matt

[cantsitstillbr]

I would be interested to see thoughts about preflop playing styles and why one is better than the others specificly for ssnl, or if so why it really doesnt matter.

[Grunch]

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Would you sticky this thread please.

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We can't sticky an un-locked thread (becasue of possible ad spamming). But I can make a locked sticky redirect thread, and that is done.

[Grunch]

One thing I have been struggling with of late is the correct use of an overbet. I'm not sure when & why to do it.

[jii]

This book is gonna be gold to fish. I gotta move up when this is published...

[Grunch]

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This book is gonna be gold to fish. I gotta move up when this is published...

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People have said that about many similar books in the past, including the first SSNL (limit) book, GSIH, etc. I've never seen this prediction come true.

[stinkpaw]

1) Adjustments for 6max. Not just the typical ‘play looser’ stuff.
2) Pot control
3) Playing OOP. Especially big pairs/overpairs OOP
4) Shallower games like you find live. EG 50BB buy-ins. There is a lot of info on deep stack and short stack, but medium stack gets ignored.
5) Hand reading
6) Short cuts to doing the math at the table (eg figuring best play for opponent’s range of hands.)
7) Responding to the freak’in Min-Raise!
8) Pre-flop: putting in/responding to the 3-bet.

[Matt Flynn]

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1) Adjustments for 6max. Not just the typical ‘play looser’ stuff.
2) Pot control
3) Playing OOP. Especially big pairs/overpairs OOP
4) Shallower games like you find live. EG 50BB buy-ins. There is a lot of info on deep stack and short stack, but medium stack gets ignored.
5) Hand reading
6) Short cuts to doing the math at the table (eg figuring best play for opponent’s range of hands.)
7) Responding to the freak’in Min-Raise!
8) Pre-flop: putting in/responding to the 3-bet.

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We'll get to most of this.

[RussianBear]

Matt,
Can you get to playing out of the blinds? Can you talk about live play as well, especially those 50BB max buy-in games?
RB