This. Also, husngs are zero sum, winner-take-all, simple for fish/rec. players to understand and appreciate, no complications like bb/100 rates or the intimidation they feel of large mtts or the boredom of FR or worse Limit, or more hole cards like in PLO. The very simple idea of entering a tourney, winning or losing, end of story, is very attractive to weaker players certainly, and stuff like Mers' book will only help bring more fishies, and that's all good

Mers killed all the action at heads up sngs!!!!!



Wait for it..... Wait for it..... Waaaaaiiiit for it......





Mers saved all the action at heads up sngs!!!! Yay Merry X-mas poker!!!

errrrr

also i 100% agree w/crimsonchin/livb/others who take a similar statement. can obviously provide arguments but i guess most things have been said already. i dont see how you benefit from this at all, besides from getting your ass licked.
gl anyways, im curious to see what its like!

yeah because fish definitely download this and read through it all

also lol @ fish dont like "more hole cards like in PLO". thats probably why 95% of PLO players are fishes.

you sir, are retarded. gl in your hu4rollz.

Didnt read the whole thread so maybe my question was answered before.
is this book a pure super turbo ebook ore was it written for turbos and reg speeds aswell ?

lol that book is such a piece of crap.

I don't know what the **** I was writing there. Now that I had my Red Bull, re-reading it, yeah, that was def. retarded, haha! Not the stuff about Ryan's comment tho, that was correct. Anyways, thx. on the hu4rollz.

i was a lil harsh on you with that last comment but figured you could handle it <3
was serious about the hu4rollz thing though: much, much respect for you if it goes down

Yeah np, I'm a big boy. Only thing u need to worry about is complimenting me..you see, I'm kinda attracted to your persona (no lvl), the more u compliment me the more I will want u. Be careful.

No the whole post was crap, husngs are the only form of poker thats zero sum? fish are intimidated by big field mtts?

If well received, this project could easily be expanded into a for-pay hardcover book. It all depends on whether Collin Moshman continues the $500/month he's been paying me not to do so.

I agree, especially considering he went out of his way to say that and I took it as genuine (ITRIED saw it the other way). Openness and honesty about ego makes life more fun.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about this tbh. There definitely is too many players making too much money with far too little skill for us to be anywhere close to that kind of equilibrium. What happens in the future will depend too much on who gets access to poker and broader things in the poker economy.

Given the "errrrr", it seems you have a different utility curve than mine. How remarkable!

Here's what I gain from this, in no particular order:
1. It was part of a contract back in February that was the biggest training site contract for HUSNG play of all time afaik. I like money I can buy myself nice things with it.
2. I got really invested in some of the content in the ebook that doesn't have to do with in-game poker. I want it spread to as many people who will read it because I think there's a good chance people will get something more important out of it than what my historical expectation is limping 12bb deep or how nitty of a 3-betting range I advise 20bb deep against a random. And that's something that would give me a lot of utility again because who the **** cares it just does.
3. It will feel good to put my name on something and make a lasting contribution that will be referenced years and years down the road. Sure, five years from now it will be spoken about with as much derision and dismissiveness as Moshman's, but I'm excited for that, too.
4. It matters to me that people have the same access to free poker education that I had when I was first starting to learn how to play and first moving up in stakes. I owe a lot to those people and it gives me utility to pay it forward.
5. ChicagoRy has naked pictures of me and a grainy cell phone video that he will claim is me blowing borderline. It's not, but that's what he'll claim.

He seriously pays you for that?

I'd definite purchase it, even after printing all of it myself - I'm simply one of these old-fashioned guys who prefers holding a real book on his hands rather than reading stuff online.

So excited about this - makes me almost forget that I had to make my last post itt without reading, afraid I'd get too much upset otherwise - which absolutely would have happened.

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South park was wrong after all - Germans r fun people ;]

I think the book is a little bit overrated and not because its bad or something else on the contrary
But if a hobby player will only read it, it doesnt help him to get a better player because there is so much more to do to get better and its still hard work.
Most of the player wont do that and just copy a move and dont understand why they play this hand.

So I´m looking forward to this book and will enjoy it but I dont think every fish will improve to a hardcore reg

I don't contribute much to the 2p2 husng community unfortunately, but I have been beating the higher stakes games for a while and think I can speak on this stuff w/ some authority.

Just my 2 cents:

1. I agree w/ livb that we do have to be honest, and admit that poker education is at least having some affect on making games more difficult. While obviously fish aren't going to get noticeably better from poker education, average regs have a better chance at becoming solid regs and we get stuck having to war each other or profit share at bigger games (that and as livb mentioned the fish go bust quicker).

2. While I don't really understand why Mers would want to put this book out (even after reading his explanations), I'm not really all that worked up about it. I think the husng community as a whole is pretty far behind in their development as they could be. It was only a couple years ago husng players even realized huds are helpful. There's still a lot of concepts that haven't been revealed to the majority of the husng community. A lot of the content being taught on sites like husng.com are just the same concepts being taught over and over again by like 5 guys (not to mention there's content out there that I wholeheartedly believe is detrimental to player development to study), and I think things have started to stall out in terms of new husng ideas becoming available to everybody.

3. I agree with Olga that sts might become obsolete eventually. But as someone who doesnt play sts, I've been frankly thankful in some ways to see so many ppl get caught up in the st craze. It sux that it makes it easier for average players to burn through fish bankrolls, but as a whole I think its making regs much much worse. If there is a day where husng poker officially dies (which I honestly don't think will happen), the existence of sts is certainly pushing that day further into the future.