I considered posting this in the commune or SHNL but didn't want a bunch of busto's spamming the thread. Plus given the books cost and target market I figure posting here would be best. If you don't play mid-high stakes you are certainly welcome to post in this thread, but please put care into not derailing the discussion.

The book I am talking about is by 'shoota', a well respected Leggo pro. In case anyone hasn't heard of this one, check out the link below:

Blue Book for SALE! and More - LeggoPoker

Now I don't know everything about this guy and perhaps someone can fill in the blanks of his 'qualifications'. But according to his PTR he only regulates 5/10: LOLOLOLOLOL Poker Player Ranking and Stats at Full Tilt Poker.

It is possible (and likely) he is playing across multiple sites (and PTR doesn't catch everything) but so far the information is unknown. If someone can add in any missing information that would be great because so far I'm not sold on this book.

So here we have a good player who has beaten 5/10 6max games over a couple hundred thousand hands and now wants to charge 2.5 buyins per book ($2500). This seems a bit excessive. Now I understand that ebooks are expensive and that the target market (i.e. someone rolled for 5/10 or 10/20) isn't going to care much about putting up the cash for this. My issue with this book is I have a feeling it is massively overhyped. He is charging $2500 (more than Baluga Whale or Cole south have charged for their books) and he hasn't proven himself to beat games higher than 5/10. This also is a bit weird because if THIS guy can charge $2500 for a book, players like Sauce, ISF or Nutsinho should be able to charge >$5000 or even $10000 for a book.

Regardless for someone whos playing 400nl-1000nl personal coaching is probably way more valuable than this. For someone playing 1000nl+ I'm sure they won't really think to hard about the purchase given how little money it is relative to their bankrolls (may not be that smart of an idea though). For the rest, I imagine this book will be bootlegged and distributed to those playing as low as 10nl. Even if you do play >1000nl and can easily afford the book, there is probably no sense in buying it because you clearly already will understand/know all the content the book holds.

Now this is just my opinion, but this guy hasn't shown he is worthy of charging this much money for a 150 page poker book. Of course if he lowered his price to say, 1 buyin ($1000) he would probably reach out to more midstakes players. Then again, he only needs to sell 100 copies and he's 1/4 of the way there to having a million dollar product. These E-books have to be the closest thing to a scam in poker aside from Vanessa Selbst's group coaching thing in vegas during the wsop.

Also I think it's hilarious that at the same time of him releasing his book he talks about test driving as Maserati in his blog :P

Thoughts?