I noticed this today and have replaced all the suits with lowercase suit markers (s, c, d, h) until I can find a permanent fix.

It will take a day or two for the Kindle version to be replaced with the fixed suit version.

Andrew

I've always liked baluga's stuff, but ya it bothers me too when author's screen names are unavailable, etc, and is obviously a turn off when their SN's are available, and turns out they are losing or breakeven. Is baluga's SN public?

http://www.pokertableratings.com/ful...ch/balugawhale
(ipoker and ongame balugawhale are NOT me)

http://www.pokertableratings.com/sta...earch/Bwhale28

These are obviously old (and show a pretty monster downswing, which I discuss somewhat in the book). However, my major site SN's have always been public.

Smaller site SN's (UB for example), are not as public, because they would probably cost me a fair amount of action (where games are more sparse, that's not really a good thing).

Andrew

what topics are covered in the new edition that were not covered previously?

There's a table of contents here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...lable-1112477/

Chapters 2, 7, 12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 40, 43, and 51 are all completely new.
They cover topics like street projection, either/or philosophy, leveling, advanced bet sizing, and advanced fold equity evaluation.

Andrew

A lot of players would like to be +90k "loosing players". So, by your standards:

. dec 08: BalugaWhle is a great coach/author
. jan 09: He is getting worse as a coach/author, but still good
. aug 09: Now he just suck at poker
. Somewhere in time when he goes on a heater: Are you comming back here and bite your tongue?

I dunno, Bryce Paradis (Freedom25) wins 2,6 million in 2007 and widely regardes as the best together with Mat Hawrilenko ... how is he doing now? Poker has gotten a lot tougher recent years and the fact that someone had good results 4-5 years ago and since is breakeven does mean something, don't you think?

I think that you have to judge whether the guy is good or not for the things he says/writes. If it makes sense to you, if the guy can explain his thought proccess in an intelligent way and you think what he sais can improve your poker game, that's what is important. A good example would be someone like Jungleman. No need to mention how good he is, his results speaks for himself, but for what I've seen, he cannot (or doesn't want to) express himself in a clear way (you will know what I mean if you ever listened to any interview with him...). He may not be a great coach, despite great results. Some other player (not the case with BW, he's f***in' awesome) may not be that great in terms of recent results but a very good coach/author.
Btw, I have a very hard time to believe that anyone who saw at least 5' of ANY BalugaWhale video can say he is not a great coach, author or a poker player.

You don't think Bryce could teach 99% of HU LHE players a thing or two?

wat are baluga's SN's? Curious given all of the above. Always liked his vids, etc.

I posted that info like 6 posts up.

Andrew

$50 or whatever Andrew is charging is a great price for his book. He has a ton of useful poker knowledge and is able to communicate it in a clear and concise matter. If you play at least 50NL and glean even a few useful insights that increase your WR it will be well worth the price. Regarding the pricing of his previous books, all online poker books were highly priced back in 2007-2009 and he was just charging the market price, which is the exact same price I would have charged.

ahh, sorry, andrew. they look okay to me. i'd be thrilled to beat 10/20 NL at 3ish bb's per a hundred over 110k hands.

Yea he seems to be one of the few authors who are actually beating the game..

Is the Kindle version available yet?

Here you go http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Game-3rd-.../dp/B005WLP0J8

But it's cheaper if you purchase it on his website as a pdf file....

These people that want to investigate the screen names are funny. If i am a great player and build up a roll playing 1/2 and write a book and get bored so i move up to 10/20 and lose everything.... Cant a beginner still learn a hell of alot from me. This example is not of baluga but just some food for thought.

Fortunately your results at 1/2 can be seperated from your results at 10/20, when viewing ptr, so it is possible to say, ok this guy has 5bb/100 at 200NL over a million hands, but seems to have been taken drunken shots at 10/20, I'm buying this book.

I'm enjoying the book so far but the version from Amazon.co.uk still has the original error. Any ETA on a fix? It's pretty distracting.

Thanks.

That's very frustrating, I thought that was taken care of.

Email me (teambalugawhale@gmail.com) and I will email you the fixed .PRC file (should be able to go straight onto the kindle).

Andrew

Just a suggestion, but I think it would be better (and more standard, cf Professional NLHE) to have the footnotes at the bottom of the relevant page rather than at the end of the chapter; it's quite frustrating scrolling up and down constantly in the longer chapters.

Loving the content though.

I agree with this. It is actually standard in ebooks to be able to click on the number (or in this case asterisk) and be brought to the corresponding footnote.

Just a quick question. If read the first edition first then i would have a hard time understanding what's the new material in the last version?

I havent read either one, but from what I understand the latest version, which i will prob. buy, is simply an updated version of the earlier ones. That is to say its not a volume 1, 2, 3 where you are missing parts if you dont read the first ones. So you dont have to have read 1st and 2nd editions to read the 3rd edition.

Mvh
Inga

Nope, you'd have no trouble with it.

Andrew