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08-13-2017 , 11:07 PM

DumbosTrunk

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Join Date: Apr 2017 Posts: 7,309

Hi all,

I finally bought a copy of TGM and am wondering how to get the most out of it. I have bought and read plenty of other books (including some of the Harrington series). In the past, I pretty much just read the books cover to cover and tried to retain as much as possible.

Thoughts from those of you who have read the Manual are appreciated. Any sections to pay particular attention to, especially for an amateur? Any sections less useful that deserve only a cursory glance? Any advice in the book that should be taken with a grain of salt?

Best,
DT

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08-14-2017 , 12:56 AM

pokerforumposter

adept

Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 856

Read the manual carefully. Every bit of information you learn you should compare to your current understanding of the game. For example, if the author gives you a rfi range, give it a brief look, think about your own rfi that you currently use, and look back to the author's range and compare. The more you engage your understanding of the game while reading the manual, the more effectively you will learn. Your goal is to absorb as much of the knowledge and concepts as you can so next time you play or study they will pop up in your head. It is not a long manual so you don't be afraid to reread every page that isn't immediately trivial.

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08-14-2017 , 03:01 AM

Fatboy54

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Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 3,876

I bought it on Kindle, downloaded and converted it into a pdf and then converted the pdf into MS Word.

This enabled me to extract stuff like the ranges and hud settings into individual documents and play with them as much as I liked.

It was a lot of work and I never completed the project (which was to convert the chunked up mini docs back to pdf and then upload back to kindle for quick review) because by the time I'd done all the above I'd pretty much learnt the whole damn book.

It goes w/o saying that I am a pretty big fan of TGM.

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08-14-2017 , 02:27 PM

Pocket 4's

centurion

Join Date: Sep 2015 Posts: 158

Is TGM worth reading if I'm playing live full-ring? I'm not an online player, love live cash games though. Mostly $1/$3

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08-14-2017 , 03:50 PM

HoldemSapiens

journeyman

Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 307

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Originally Posted by pokerforumposter

It is not a long manual so you don't be afraid to reread every page that isn't immediately trivial.

Not a long manual? It's 545 pages!

Im going to print it to paper tomorrow: loving the book, but hate to read it on a screen. Need to flip through pages and add notes!

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Originally Posted by Pocket 4's

Is TGM worth reading if I'm playing live full-ring? I'm not an online player, love live cash games though. Mostly $1/$3

Definately (in my opinion)

There is a lot of general poker strategy in it that os applicable to every form of poker.

Quite a bit is also based on HUD stats, but this will also be usable in live poker, since you know (or SHOULD know) wether your opponent will (for example) cbet never/sometimes/often/always and adapt your strat to that info.

Last edited by HoldemSapiens; 08-14-2017 at 03:57 PM.

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