It may very well be underpriced, but I'd imagine it's easier on 2plus2 in their dealings with the authors if they price their books based on number of pages as opposed to content. It's easy to put a price on pages and hard to put a price on content.

"Raising a Turn Bet After the Flop Was Checked Through" is there and probably covers what you're referring to.

I´m really looking forward to this book.
It can´t get here soon enough.
I have a question, but maybe it´s too big or complicated to answer.

First, a little background:
I am a winning 25NL zoom player about to take a shot at 50NL zoom.
My thought process right now mainly focuses on the villains range.
Am I ahead? Is his range weak? What can I represent?
These are the questions I ask myself when I play.
I am striving to play more GTO and balanced, asking myself the question: If I take this action, is my range unbalanced?
I´ve only just started thinking like this, and I´m nowhere near balanced or playing GTO, but it is a small step in the right direction.
The thing is: This is really a shift for me, from focusing on villains range to focusing on my own.

Now the question(s):
Is there a way to move gradually towards GTO, or do I need to completely re-vamp my game from the ground up?
Can I for instance start by changing my pre-flop game, or will those changes be useless (or harmfull) if I don´t change my flop, turn and river play as well?

Again, really looking forward to this book.

will this and / or further limit holdem be joining the book list for the 2+2 bonus offer?

I would just tweak specific aspects of your game that are easiest and most important to fix. I don't think you'll need to start over completely nor do I even think that'd really be possible.

Sounds reasonable. Thanx for answering!

I peed my pants reading the TOC

SHUUUUUSH!!

SHUUUUUUUUUUUUSH!!!!



I cannot wait for this book.

Hi!
Any update regarding release date?
Thanks!

Most likely May.

Hi Everyone:

Here's the current status.

The book is finished, has been type set, and we have just started the final proofreading. When this is done it goes to our index builder, and once that is finished onto our printer. So my best guess is mid May.

Best wishes,
Mason

PS: We should run an excerpt in next month's Two Plus Two Online Poker Strategy Magazine.

I keep reading about this "index building" in your announcements. I'm surprised that in this day and age this still appears to be a lengthy process. Do you mind sharing how this works?

On that note, the index in the Kindle edition is useless since it refers to the page numbers of the paperback, and the entries are not clickable. (Talking about TIPP here).

Hi Cangurino:

It's real simple. I send the manuscript in final type-set form to the index builder, and about a month later she sends us an index. As for how she goes about creating the index, I have no idea.

As for the Kindle, any issues with the Kindle are Amazon's responsibility. All we do is give them permission to convert the text to kindle form. However, my Kindle has a search and find function. So if there is an expression that I'm interested in, my Kindle will take me to it. Thus this in a sense can substitute for an index.

Best wishes,
Mason

Thanks for the information. I guess I'm somehow spoiled by the use of LaTeX which builds the index on the fly as long as I mark the words I want to be included in it (and adjusts the page numbers whenever necessary).

I'm aware that your not responsible for the Kindle edition. It looks like the "index" there is just a scan of the paperback's index.

Hi Cangurino:

You're not making an index. You're making a concordance file, there are lots of programs that do that, and years ago this is exactly what we did. But if you look at our indexes for our newer books (and printings), they are far more sophisticated than what you are describing.

Best wishes,
Mason

Can we pre-order the paperback?

If not when?

Ty

I was under the impression I was making an embedded index. But I'll compare your older and newer publications.

I don't know much about typography or book publishing for that matter, but I am sure LaTeX can build a full fledged index for a textbook since it is one of the most sophisticated programs out there. And of course Donald Knuth is writing the monumental series "The Art of Computer Programming" in TeX, and an index can't get much more complex than that book series indexes.

Contents look very promising! It would be lovely to see more real-world situations solved perfectly.

Hi ernrdnase:

I don't know the answer either. But I do know that the way we are doing our indexes now produces a much better index than what we were producing a number of years ago.

If you want more information, here is the website of our Index builder:

http://www.robertsindexing.com/

Best wishes,
Mason

Well in that case probably an index built by an expert is going to be better than an automatically built one but not as comprehensive.

Does ebook version will be available?

Once again, I have never been this eager for a poker book to come out before.

Another question.

In it´s essence, the principles behind GTO are quit simple; It´s about playing in a way that makes it impossible for your opponent to win (if I´ve misunderstood, this statement gets really embarrasing ).
It is harder, but still doable, to construct balanced ranges away from the table.
But what´s really problematic is applying it at the table.

For instance:
I open from UTG (6max) with a certain range.
Flop is J86 twotone.
Away from the table I can create balanced cbetting/bluffing ranges (or at least not really unbalanced). But at the table it´s hard. And since poker is complex, it´s impossible to first work out what you do in any concievable spot, and then remember it.

So, my question is this:
Will the book focus on the work you do away from the table (creating ranges in common spots)?
Or will it discuss ways to work at the table, with the time constraints you have?
Or both?

Are you going to release this in an ebook format upon release too?

I'd say both. It shows where everything comes from and how I tend to approach analyze situations on the flop, turn, and river, so the methodology should be repeatable for other board textures.

I just don't want you to think I'm ignoring this, but this isn't something I know and you'll have to wait from Mason to get an official answer (which I imagine he'll give as soon as he knows).