I thought is would be a good idea to open a a new tread for reviews about this book because the other one is gettig rather big. I haven't read the whole book yet but skimmed through it and read some chapters (I'll make a complete review once I've read the whole book).

Title:
The Poker Blueprint
Advanced strategies for crushing micro and small stakes NL

Authors:
Aaron Davis and Tri "Slowhabit" Nguyen

Purpose:
The Poker Blueprint provides the infrastructure for micro- and small-stakes players to build their game on. It also offer advanced strategies that are vital to crushing today's online short-handed games up to 100NL.

Layout
First of all I love the cover! Like all Slowhabitbooks, it looks great!
First thing that caught my eyes once I opened the book was the 'untypical' layout for a slowhabit book. The book looks clean, well structured, with a lot of colours, charts and graphics. The font invites to read and there's not an overload of text on one page.

Content
The book has 172 pages. It has a lot of charts and every chapter starts with a page that contains just the chaptertitel but besides that there's a lot to read. The book looks very complete for a beginnerbook. It's stuctured very logicaly.

The book starts with a chapter on tableselection. This is a small chapter with some pointers of what to look for when you sit down at a table. There wasn't anything in there I (and 98% of pokerplayers didn't know) but it can be usefull for a beginning player.

The second chapter is a chapter on bankroll management:
The chapter is an excerpt taken from Tri’s upcoming poker psychology book and Tri gave the impression of being very proud of the text and he should be. It's a good text, fun to read and with some good pointers.

The third chapter is a chapter on math.
This part is well structured with a lot of examples. It's basic of course but its a chapter I would recommend to every beginning pokerplayer. Without going into a lot of detail, it talks about everything a microstakes player has to know about pokermath: ranges, handcombinations, odds, EV,... The topics treated in this chapter are definitely wider then every beginnerbook I've read so far and are very well explained without making it a dry text! It's a very accessable chapter and that's a big achievement for a math-chapter.

In the next chapters (from here I just skimmed the book so can't go into detail about the quality of the content) the book follows the progress of a pokerhand. First there's a chapter about preflopplay. At first sight it looks like a very solid chapter. Every position on the table is taken into account, with attention to handrange, players behind you, where to raise, 3bet, squeeze, stealing blinds,... It analyzes a lot of situations and is defenately completer then most other beginner books!

Chapter 5 is about postflop play. All the basic moves a micor player has to know are treated here (cbet, floating, double barreling, check-raising). There are a lot of handexamples that analyse the structure of the board and how to (re)act according to it.

The last chapters talk about the more 'advanced' moves:
3bet, 4bet, what to do when a scarecard comes, balancing, multiway pots, how to adjust to different playertypes...
BTW the 3bet-chapter looks very promising and I can't wait to read it. It's 18 pages and looks like a very good introduction in the concept. Also the 4bet part looks promising. The other chapters are rather small (about 4, 5 pages each). A complete table of content can be found at Slowhabits site.

Conclusion
At first sight, this book seems very solid for a 'beginner book'. It's more like a 'expert-beginner book' that not only talks about how to play ABC poker but really seems to give a strategy for micro stakes players that is customised at the opponents they'll meet at the tables and talks about concepts that were only to find in (e)books meant for mid to high stakes.

I was looking forward to read the book and from what I've read so far, its everything I was hoping for

ps:
In the forum there were some questions about the difference between this book and milllers SSNLHE book. I think they have a different approuch. This book is more a beginner book (talks about basic math, preflopplay,...), but instead of all the other beginnerbooks I've read, it gives a real strategy for todays online games and touches a lot of concepts that were only talked about in forums or mid to highstakestexts. This book will be handy for beginning players as for players up to 100NL. SSNLHE is not a beginner book. You should know how to play poker at a certain level and a lot of strategies can't be used in microgames. Time will tell if the Blueprint-book contains a winning strategy but at first sight, it's very promising. For 37$ it's a must buy!

thx for the review Ratboy! i am curious to read your more deatailed review later and to hear many more opinions of other userers in here too!

Can a full ring player get alot out of it? Is there a starting hand chart for FR?

I've been reading thru' it, and I agree it's a solid book/guide to micro stakes. It has a lot of allusions to higher stakes balancing concepts and possibly exploitable pre-flop and turn tendencies that no other book, or writer, has bothered to address. There are appr. half a dozen points I take issue with, not calculating "outs to outs" as a part of your flop equity, iso raising limpers out of the blinds, check/folding vs check/raising TPNK in limped pots, 3betting card removal effects vs. suited connectors IP, calling in the small blind vs LP and re-raising in the blinds vs EP etc. , but it's small ball quibbling and I think the book gives a really good frame work for up to 200NL or so.

For 40 bucks it's an easy buy, highly recommended IMO.

As mentioned by another poster in the other treat about this book, although it's a 6max book, 90% of the content is directly applicable to FR without any adjustment. For the preflopplay, early positions in FR are not mentioned but you can play them more or less the same as recommended for UTG.
I suppose the postflop section will have some 6max advice that's not always perfectly applicable at FR from time to time, but even then every poker situation is different and needs its own approach. Not everything that works on 10NL will work on 100NL and the other way around, same for FR and 6max. That will be up to the reader to get as much out of the book as he can by studying hard on the text and looking what works for you and what not. So I defenately think this book is applicable for FR as well.

FWIW I'm a FR player

If anyone is familiar with limit literature, it appears that this book attempts to fill in many holes that are not adressed or well-explained in NL books. What struck me is you compliment the pf strategy, and that is something I know could have been found quite easily in limit books, along with the concept of ev, playing certain boards, 3bet, etc (you'd have to adjust a few strategies but most of the concepts move across with no changes). Does it appear to you that this book is attempting to fill those gaps? I'm not very familiar with NL books, but from reading the reviews and talks about the strategy, and seeing people implement those strategies in threads, I have been pretty turned off of NL books. Sounds like this is the book that should've came out four years ago. Agree?

I'm not familiar with limit books and have to confirm that most NLbooks talk about those preflop concepts as well. I don't think I said there were new preflopconcepts introduced for beginners, as it isn't. But what I liked here is how it's presented. Not only 3betting preflop is discussed but it's discussed for every single position, same with squeezing,... I haven't read every book of course but I think this book looks completer then most beginnerbooks on the subject.
But let me be clear, I don't think the prefloppart is revolutionary or will be the best part of the book. The mathpart and most importantly the postfloppart seem like the gapfillers between ABC books and the midstakes (e)books

The post-flop chapters by Tri are insanely ****ing good, a lot of it reminded me of Fimbulwinter posts that were way, way ahead of their time but never explained or illustrated in detail. It's one of the first books I've seen that takes the time to address OOP play and constructing ranges for check/raising and leading (some what) which is a badly missing piece of poker literature. He also consolidated a lot of concepts here and there from other ebooks and sold them for dirt cheap by comparison.

it's now that I realise that pf can be pre or postflop

I think most posters use "pf" for preflop and "post" for postflop. I, and many others also use "pre."

I agree.

I have skimmed this through, as I have Miller's book, this seems to be a lot better.

together with nl workbook a nice combo. I hope Tri edits NL workbook similarly.

does miller talk REALLY about combos and balancing at this level? he seems to be wishy-washy all aggro steal cbet any flop 2barrel -kind of a style, whereas with this book...a lot of concepts were directly linked to balugas's book/GC, stuff he was getting some critiscism and now I see this link in between these 3 guys.

edit: sorry not the most coherent post but a few belgium ales can take their toll)

The Ed Miller books does have a section in the back on balancing, but IMO Ed Miller did a bad job of explaining the why and not the how of his barreling tendencies while Tri put out a pretty good road map for people to follow.

Yeah, as I said a lot of Ebooks seem rolled up into 1 in this case, I noticed a lot of references to the AEJones Memoirs, Easy Game and of course LTBR and NLWB. He also expanded on the multi-way squeezing sections of Ryan Fee's Guide a bit.

It's just a lot of nuggets of wisdom, IMO.

i have to say, i like the BR Mgmt chapter (this is as far as ive read thus far)

Ratboy answered this pretty much already. I play 10 handed $1-2 NLHE at a local casino.Would using Tri's starting hands for 6 ring be OK to use in a FR in your opinion. That would be using the books UTG for early in a FR as ratboy stated and so forth. I know 6 max you have to more aggressive with your opening raises but in a FR game is still alright to be that aggressive? What, if any changes, would you make in the starting hands, assuming you just sat down and haven't sized up your opponents yet?

No, drop pairs below 77 and suited broadway below AJs and KQs in the first couple of position.