all the hands in those videos are probably new.

but honestly, its just difference perspective on looking at poker, its not like your gonna flip to something ridiculous like "raise 6x in bvb!!!".

I do like his videos/book, very straight forward and makes poker easy.

PM BalugaWhale: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/47325/

I had no idea Volume II of Easy game was soooo expensive. As a micro player it will be tough to afford 300...Uhggg

You didn't notice it's cost when you bought Volume I for $300?

I read it from a friend. He made a hard copy!

no baluga website anymore?

BW talks about it's demise on his blog (which is also now very out of date) back in May of this year.

http://balugabay.com/?p=138

Maybe balugawhale needs to revise the eBook in light of Rush poker, which seems to have spawned new players types and trends, at least at uNL. For instance, relentlessly value-betting people with hands like TPTK until you're raised might no longer be a good idea when there are so many players who won't raise premiums pairs like AA, KK, and QQ -- preflop or postflop, regardless of board texture, even if they hit a set. Of course, you can simply make a note on them and move on, but still... they're weird.

stop using PTR because the scamme.... *cough* i mean coaches don't want to be held accountable

everytime an author refuses to give out his screenname or says PTR is inaccurate, it should be a HUGE RED FLAG to any reader about the quality of said book in said game

this attitude is really BS

how on Earth are authors not to be held accountable for what they've actually done?

Yeah, great teachers are not always the greatest players, but they are not losing players.

The market is saturated with crummy books right now and a posse of players that don't win or are also tied to 'coaching sites' saying what a good deal the book is. Do you see the problem in that sort of verification process????

2p2 is the place where you can usually hold sites, pros, etc accountable, but you cannot if it's a book written by someone who will not prove they have a long-term winning record in the game they are writing about. I wonder why that is. It's completely inconsistent and a shyster move on the players that come here to learn but don't realize many books are being pushed on them by people that don't have success in the games they are writing about.

Love this... What you might learn from Baluga is that books like Elements of poker " dealing with the mental side, could be more important than
the technical in the long run. The best players technically still have huge swings, and the ones that are prepared to deal with it remain, and the others
dont. simple as that.

yes, whatever happened to Boy Wonder. I liked those posts as he encouraged players and stressed that it was his mental approach not the technical that was the reason for his success and i dont think he even used a HUD.
Why do good players quit this game? they burn out?, feel p[okers a dead end, its a grind etc. etc. Its the swings, and the better you become the more variance you will experience. Jabbershots comment is the brutal truth .

Has anyone viewed Andrew's videos? The subject matter looks pretty good, but thet ain't cheap.

http://dailyvariance.com/poker-videos/

There are several Baluga's videos on DeucesCracked... And it is cheaper...

This is incorrect.

It really shouldn't matter very much if the teacher is a winner. Maybe he has a sound mind, but has major tilt issues and thus can't win.

There are many winners who are poor teachers and can't explain their thoughts or don't even know why they do things sometimes. And there may be a very good sound thinking player who either tilts, or hero calls just to confirm his reads, or does any number of things that cost money.

I haven't looked up Belugawhale. I don't care if he's a winner. I've read what he's written, I've seen his videos, and I am able to judge for myself the merit of his words. What he says and how he thinks makes sense logically. He approaches the game correctly, and his deductions about proper play come from that solid framework.

Now somebody who knows little about gambling, and/or is not good with logic or math, or somebody who simply hasn't played long enough -- this type of person may not be able to judge merit on his own may need some other indicator of merit, like winning/losing. But that's a fall-back inaccurate method to be used if you are just too inexperienced to know better.

Of course, a winning player who IS ALSO a good coach may be able to help with non-theory things that relate to winning and in that respect he may be of immense help. But to say that straight poker theory shouldn't be completely valid unless the player is a winner is faulty.

If you follow his blog or twitter you can get in on these coaching calls when he does them for cheaper than they sell, you also get the opurtunity to ask questions a the end, and get the info first. Probably better off just watching his stuff on DC though, there is a ton of good stuff by him in there.

Blimey the prices have gone down a bit. Iirc Andrew was asking for over $1000 for "Easy Game". That's why I took an interest in it.

FYI Andrew has said he is releasing a new revised and updated book to be priced much lower sometime soon

40$ faik

Andrew will be on the 2+2 Pokercast discussing the latest version of Easy Game tomorrow night(oct 17th). If anyone has questions, post them here.

What will the price be this time around? Will it be updated suit current trends in poker? Is it aimed at any particular stakes?

Mvh
Inga

Are the book's concepts and theories relevant for live play?

Pre order available.

http://www.deucescracked.com/forums/...?#post_3895541

Kindle version of this has the suites messed up. For example "6e 6f on a Qe 9e 3c board".
Shows like that in a sample of the book in ipad, android and pc. Don't know about the actual kindle reader.

Same!