I'd say it can. As others have said there's nothing really groundbreaking in part 1, espeically if you've seen Balugas vdeos beforehand, and when I read it at first I was a little disappointed (although the HU section was very good and something that was new to me). It was only when I started to re-read the section a few times and actively go over the concepts until I fully understood them that I realised the full value of it.

Thanks for the reply, I think i'll stump up the $300 once i've made it in rakeback.

Why is anyone who is sceptical about an e-book branded a troll. Do we all have to hold the same opinion?

I think it is a great book. However the book that helped me most was the no limit Hold'em workbook. If I had to rank my books it would the following:

1.The No-Limit Hold'em Workbook
2. Easy Game Volume II
3. The Poker Puzzle
4. Let There Be Range

Absolutely not. Someone can become trollish on either side of an issue when they become boringly repetitive and borderline insulting.

Because 99% of the people who are "skeptical" of Ebooks "claim" to have read said Ebooks and then give bogus opinions of their value and content. These posts add nothing of merit to the thread and should be the basis for bans - they're either being misleading or their admitting to copy right violations, and every time the "price" argument comes up, all intelligible conversation regarding the book and the material ceases and the thread is derailed.

Surely the price of a product has some bearing on whether or not it should be purchased?

It just seems to me that negative opinions are bogus and positive ones are genuine, bit like a downswing being variance whilst an upswing is crushing the games.

Does Easy game vol 1 and 2 apply better to cash or mtt ??

The book is mostly about 6 max cash games as well as heads up cash games. But I think a few of the concepts and ideas could help with mtt.

what books do u advise then for smal stakes mtt and sng ?

only read HoH so far

Colin Moshmans book is pretty good for sng's

I'd absolutely say it's worth the price for a easy to understand framework that explains the "why" of the game.

If I look at it as simply a book, then of course it's too expensive.

If I look at it as a tool that potentially chopped off 500-2k+ hours worth of play time experience (depending on learning ability) to get to the same level of thinking, then of course $1k is easily a good price for tuition. People pay tens of thousands of dollars all the time to sit there and listen to people talk in order to get an education knowing that the RIO is going to be worth it.

Passing up opportunity cost alone of playing micro stakes vs playing 100NL+ with a full understanding of the content in this book makes this decision not even close.

Fox's book is available at the Gambler's book store for $39.95. Is it still worth it?

If you want to play live, yes. This was written before the NLHE era, so there isn't much useful strategy.

I suggest checking through some of the old threads. If you don't find the information you're looking for; feel free to make a new thread.

You are actually being very generous about this.The book contains very little 6 max material.It amounts to about 24 pages of material organised in 14 very short chapters.Comparing it to Ed Miller's Small Stakes No Limit Holdem it covers much the same subject area only there's far less of it and it completely misses out a lot of important topics eg in Easy Game vol 1 you get just over a page on 'Isolation theory'.On three-betting Siedman advises his readers to buy the Advanced book so three hundred bucks isn't enough to get his thoughts on this!My advice is to pay $65 for Ed Miller's 306 page book rather than £300 for the 30 pages of 6 max info in Easy Game Vol 1.It's the same sort of stuff only ten times as much for a fifth of the price.

This is extremely inaccurate. The largest cost that we have, by far, is printing, and at times the print cost of our inventory has been well over 1 million dollars. The things you mention are "a drop in the bucket" compared to what we do. In addition, we must completely pay for our printing before we receive any payment for the books that we sell. Also, once you have a large book inventory, there are many additional costs including salaries for book packers, etc, plus the cost of things you have never even thought of such as our fork lift.

But we are also going the ebook route, and I can guarantee you that the cost their is tiny compared to what we have to put out for production, storage, and handling of hard copy books. Also, if we misjudge what a book will sell, and this has happened due to the way the poker market has quickly changed, we end up with a lot of books that we can't sell and have to eat that cost.

Most of our books are in the 300 to 400 page range with many of them containing much theory and numerous detailed hand examples. Are you sure that all they tell you is how to play ace-king?

You should care if the authors of these books are losing players. Furthermore, from what you have just written, your results derived from the information in the Baluga book come to around $1,000 dollar profit. That doesn't seem like much for a book that is completely "amazing."

MM

I disagree with this. As the games get tougher, especially at the higher limits where the games tend to be tougher still, an expert's relative win rate should drop. So depending on the game (and limits) 1.79 BB/100 may be extremely good.

Mason

No. It's a book about jacks-or-better draw poker which was a form of limit poker with only two rounds of betting meaning that many standard poker concepts, such as semi-bluffing, are not very important.

MM

Mason,

Thanks for your response on this. Your original rating on this book was 9 and your comments on it in GBOT suggested that it is a highly recommended book regardless of which game you play.

It is actually funny that the Gambling Book Store still have a bunch of old outdated books that they refuse to price down to clear and instead insist on selling it at full cover price... books like Jim Fox's book for $39.95 and Ken Buntjer's Secret to Winning Big in Poker book for $49.95.

The Fox book has value from a historical perspective, but they should throw the Buntjer books away.

Mason

i have watched many of baluga's vids on DC and was wondering how much of the book material is covered in those videos or is new information???

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bump and i just had a look at the baluga website and it seems like a ghost town - is there an active private forum for owners of the book?

thanks

hey guys. I am still trying to find Easy game II. I like the first volume, but I cannot find the second one anywhere