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Originally Posted by TheDarkKnight
If there's an actual book out there on modern LHE - that is good - I'd like to read it
Modern LHE = Philip Newall's books. He posts around the forums at times, and if you added in MoP you'd be well covered. Bellatrix did a huge series for DeucesCracked covering the Mathematics of Poker in depth. The concepts aren't LHE specific, but building up a foundation of Game Theory from the ground up.
As a live only player, I have no idea how you integrate those concepts into your game. I guess you do the same homework away from the tables as an online player, but not having HH to go over makes it seem a big ask. In essence you are looking at your game from the viewpoint of not allowing an expert to exploit you. There are video series from OnTheRail15 and DosXX that contain a lot of key concepts if you're going that route.
The time commitment for trying to work that stuff out isn't small. iirc, AvoidThe9to5 claims something on the order of 10k hours away from the tables, or something like that. He could be quoting Gladwell and making a point, but I'd guess something on that order to become LHE ninja along those lines. If you're doing well now, do you have that kind of spare time to invest?
All of us used WITHG as our gateway to shorthanded poker. I'm not sure how it works as a live full ring player or in modern online games, but more than half the midstakes posters I could name started with it. If nothing else, it is the modern HPFAP as the book everyone read.