Has anyone read this book yet? Looks like it came out last week. I am wondering if it is a more advanced book or just another basic poker book.

Spend a buy-in and pick one up. That's what I'm going to do...can't hurt. Tel us how it is.

If you guys have any questions about the book, feel free to let me know.

How about a ToC?

A ToC would be great. Also, who is this book geared towards? Is it a basic "how to count your pot odds" and "play these hands from this position," or does it go into more advanced endgame strategy? What separates it from HoH and Kill Everyone?

if you go to d and b publishing and looked up the book itself.
you get the introduction
an sample
and the table of contents in pdf format so you can make it as big or small as you want before deciding to buy.

The Introduction/TOC/Excerpt look really solid to me, might end up being a gem of a book for NLHE MTT stuff. Very tempted to pick this up.

This is an interesting thread.

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I don't think I've seen that before.

I initially made a post here linking to a few reviews and where to get the book but some mod said they would ban me if i post links or promote my book.

The book is MUCH more simialr to HOH than kill everyone, as I am basically explaining how to play good, solid loose aggressive poker. Playing like a tag, as explained in HOH, will only make you a small winner. To be a big winner, you simply have to get in there and gamble. I am confident players of all skill levels will find the book useful. I actually wrote the initial draft of the book and it came out to 550 pages or so, which is way too big for one book, so we decided to make it into two volumes. Volume two will have many more specific concepts instead of a layout of my standard game. It should be out later this year.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

I think Every Hand Revealed by Gus Hansen is pretty good, although he is clearly wrong about a few concepts.

Someone asked if my book covers sngs and the answer is "not really." There are quite a few situations that come up in sngs that are mentioned but winning at sngs takes a totally different strategy than mtts, which is my book's main topic.

question about gus hansen concept in your view of course.

gus talks about in preparation for day 2 that he thinks it is a mistake to constantly raise 3 x when the blinds are 4/3 to one ratio as you should raise more to steal.
do you agree with that or not ?.

some questions
on amazon it says you have 2 wpt wins and cashed in wsop 5 times in 2010.
and you say your book main focus is mtt which should be assumed as it is secrets of tournaments not secrets of sit and goes which was written by phil shaw.
so the site you do videos for was formerly a sit and go site and looking at your name, the videos you are doing are mtts (for those who just assume you are an sit and go instructor), and you also have a site for playing 180 sit and goes.

1. for people looking to hone their mtts game do you recommend doing 45, 90, 180, and for those of us still on ftp demand sit and goes tournies ? if so which of these reflect mtts properly like 180 for sure but not 90 person sit and goes is what i amg getting at!

2. it seems reading your amazon that your main strength seems to be in live tournies and so with a fast structure like a standard regular mtt on full tilt, 1500 start chips as oppposed to the slow blind structure of live tournies does your book translate well to online poker play?
i am not asking for ptr stuff just that have you been able to place high on wcoop and ftos consistently ?

3. what other books besides kill everyone, and the harington series would you correct , gus hansen every hand revealed has been named in this series, yet what concepts do you find wrong in it ? as you probaly don't want to derail your own thread,perhaps you can go into the search and find a good gus hansen revealed thread and post your further thoughts on it.
so back to the orginal question here,, i am assuming you mean t.j. cloutier tournament poker series as well ?
oh yes what about full tilt poker tournament guide ?
if you read it,, what did you think of the leverage chapter?

4. book comparison question
assuming you read winning poker tournaments 1 and 2,, is there any advice you think is wrong in it ? as your goal in your book is to correct misinformation out there and this is quite a popular series.

5.book comparions question
did you read poker tournment formula 2 ? if so how would you relate that chip ulitlity concept to online tournies ?

5. there is already 1 and 2 set in stone ,, will there be a workbook to go with it for part 3 , like dimat has for jeff hwang omaha series,, and harington had his tourney series as part 3 ?

and here is the links to reviews on a quick search of your book

http://www.pokerheadrush.com/2011/04...nathan-little/

quick question about this is
does this concept of illusion of fold equity work at the micro mtts like the daily dollar at the ftp ?

http://www.pokernews.com/strategy/po...ttle-10279.htm

if i am understanding your implied pot odds quote here correctly..
top pair top kicker gives you reversed implied pot odds on the flop unless you get two pair on the turn/river or trips so you should be pot controlling in general ?

my question about pot control is ..
how do you know when you are pot controlling vs slow playing and get yourself in trouble by outdraws ?

so that is it,,
i do look forward to any responses you give and the book, (it isnt' yet in chapters or amazon canada so i havent' ordered it yet ).

I think Gus is clearly wrong to raise to 3.5x once the blinds get large. This would be fine if everyone is deepstacked but once the blinds get high, there are usually a lot of short stacks, forcing you to risk way too much whenever you are bluffing, assuming the short stacks are competent.

180 person slow sngs are the closest thing to mtts. 9 person sngs arent similar at all. That being said, 9 person sngs are a lot like a final table, which is where you get to play for all the real money. It is important to know how to play every form of nlhe if you want to be a big winner at mtts.

I have read most books on tournament poker and poker in general. Obviously TJs book is terrible. Books tend to stay value for around 3-5 years, as far as I can tell. TJs book was written like 30 years ago. HoH is right on the verge of being outdated. Also, it teaches a standard TAG approach, which simply will not make you a big winner in todays games. Gus likes to play out of position way too much. The kill phil books are basically a formula to win tiny. The FTP book has a lot of decent stuff in it although it doesnt really talk too much about nlhe. The chapter on leverage is decent, if I remember correctly. I talk a lot about pot control in my book. Being able to not put your stack in while still having the option is important in mtts

Winning Poker Tournaments ia a decent series. Honestly though, it was pretty boring to me, as I fell asleep while reading it numerous times. It is more of a hand history book whereas my book is a strategy book with hand examples thrown in to make a point.

I did not read tournament formula 2, as it is written by a blackjack player. Books that arent written by actual poker players stand very little chance of being good.

I am currently not working on a volume 3. If there is enough demand for it, I will certainly consider it. I included basically everything I know about tournament poker in the 550 or so pages of the entire book. I really dont have much more to say about the game, although I am sure I could find a pile of hand histories and go over them in book format. That being said, both books come with over 20 hours of free online poker videos which I think do that much better than a book.

With something like KQ on a K742T board, if you check back the flop or turn, which you should be doing often, you should NEVER raise the river. Hands like top pair are usually only good for two streets of value. Once that money goes in, you need to try to get to showdown.

It sounds like you might be ok with Negreanu's chapter on smallball in his book.

I liked the Winning Poker Tournaments series because it gave good, clear examples of hand-reading, and for me, relaly helped with stack size considerations.

I am ordering your book soon. Thank you for posting!

I think Negreanus book is decent but I think his style wimply doesnt work well against players that are actually good. Obviously small ball works well against terrible players and I suggest everyone use it when that is the case.

I talk about hand reading and ranges all throughout both volume 1 and 2 of my book. That is really the main skill that you have to have to win at poker.

Let me know how you like the book.

good book