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Originally Posted by LonelyBox
What you think about The Course by Ed Miller? He is probably recycling some info of Getting Started in Holdem, right? Or it's more advance? I saw a review and the guys was saying that this book can turn you into a losing player lol.
Regarding first your comment about turning into a losing player - well, that's really a pretty loaded question, and very open ended. There are many ways that can happen. The obvious one would be "this strategy is bad and if you play this strategy you'll lose at poker." No, definitely not that. It could be a topic for an entire thread, and then some. Is it possible he describes a strategy that is just a terrible fit for your personality? I suppose any book could do that, and you could change and lose. Is it possible any change to your game is going to cause you to "get worse before you get better", and therefore lose for awhile? Yeah, I think any book could do that.
The Course is a pretty decent book, I own it. But it's the kind of book that belongs as part of your overall library. If you think it's a "full course" for NL Holdem, no it's not that at all. Harrington on Cash Games comes much closer to a "full course". Don't misunderstand what the "course" means in the title.
To quote: "There’s a saying in the golf world that you don’t worry about the other players. You just play the course. It doesn’t matter if you’re playing in a big tournament against a hundred other players or against just one. It doesn’t matter if you’re playing against Tiger Woods or against Woody the Woodpecker. You can’t control what they do, so they can only be a distraction."
We could debate whether that's a useful analogy or not. You might interpret "don't worry about the other players" as being the opposite of one his other books called Playing the Player. But anyway, "course" doesn't mean full course of Holdem. It's just another book from which to learn and add to your overall poker perspective and knowledge. Recommended, but definitely not as an only book. Harrington's is much more nuts and bolts with many hand examples for all areas of the game.