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txaces
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05-19-2007, 10:27 PM
Post subject: Bigger deal -- new book (MTT players vs. Cash players)
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High Card
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I don't know where to post this because the book forum topic is the big NLHE book. This book isn't that.
I just read Anthony Holden's follow-up to the poker memoir Big Deal.
His first poker book is legendary: written before there was online poker. That book actually turned lots of people on to playing poker for a living. (In this current book, he tells of meeting his readers whose lives he's changed, apparently for the better. People left good jobs to make more money at the tables. He can barely believe this himself.)
Because, while he's writes well, Holden doesn't seem to win at poker all that much. He's been playing poker every single week for decades. He's got to know something? Doesn't he!?
Mr. Holden struggles to get better. He memorizes Harrington and goes to a big $ poker camp taught by Annie Duke and Howard Lederer.
Near the end, he plays a hand in a big tournament with pocket aces on a flush-draw flop. OK, maybe it's an ok gamble, but darnit there's too much on the line and the odds (while in his favor) are anything but a lock. His opponent has 9 outs to a flush. I've done the same thing and frankly, I beat myself for it every time. (No, I beat myself up about it approximately 36% of the time when the flush draw hits.)
In fact, the book ends as a somber reflection on poker and the author's playing skills.
It all makes me wonder -- can you improve your game, especially in mtts?
Maybe this famous poker writer is really an average Joe at the table -- above a fish but far below a pro? I get the sense his ring game is far stronger than his tournament play.
Has anyone else read this book?
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Pelion
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05-20-2007, 01:52 AM
Post subject: Re: Bigger deal -- new book (MTT players vs. Cash players)
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4-of-a-Kind
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Originally Posted by txaces
It all makes me wonder -- can you improve your game, especially in mtts?
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Anti-Rentonym
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gabe: Ive dropped almost 100k in the past 35 days.
bigspenda73: But how much did you win?
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txaces
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05-21-2007, 04:15 AM
Post subject: Re: Bigger deal -- new book (MTT players vs. Cash players)
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High Card
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Originally Posted by txaces
It all makes me wonder -- can you improve your game, especially in mtts?
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Say what??
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mrhappy333
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spam?
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3 3 3 I'm only half evil.
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txaces
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High Card
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spam?
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It's a book I read. I have no connection to the book. and I'm not selling it.
I can't very well discuss it in the Book Discussion forum about Sklansky's No Limit Hold 'em, can I?
It raises important issues about NLHE play, but Holden's book will not improve your game in 12 easy lessons.
In fact, it's not my favorite poker memoir. (I won't mention that title. I might be spamming!)
It is the sequel to a famous nonfiction poker book, however.
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