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Originally Posted by mersenneary
Sol Reader asked about criticism, and I'll be honest - I find myself surprisingly thin skinned, and have been lol'ing to myself about that (as per the chapter mentioning being able to make fun of yourself). I think it's because I put a lot of myself into it and I'm not asking for anything from anybody in releasing it, if it's for you, awesome, if it's not, no worries. In coaching/videomaking I want all negative feedback because I have a responsibility to give people what they want. This is more like something I wanted to do my way and if it's not for you or there are details about it you would change, it's different. The book is pretty much what I wanted to say. Does it say it perfectly, of course not, I made a decision not to stop myself from doing something like this because it was going to be far from perfect. Giving it a fancy cover and hyping it up does I guess entitle people to be public about negative opinions, but even that seems kind of weird. It's like it implies I'm trying to tell people how awesome I am by writing this (or hyping this), and thus a fair topic of discussion is said awesomeness or lack there of. Which makes me sad because in putting a lot of soul into this book if people come out with that conclusion, well damn, ouch.
I can´t see any comment critisizing your work.
You seem to be allergic to "this wont kill the games" comments though, so maybe you view them as criticism? I didnt expect you to make "how to program your pokerbot" manual obv but still i feel relieved to see,that in the end most of your teachings can´t be applied right away without a lot of reflection and experience.(maybe subconciously i was afraid you´re gonna form an army of chinese mersebots
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Also imagining a fish shallowly reading through this makes me feel like this might be too advanced for them. he might be 3betshoving wider in the endgame but as a compensation he will overplay hands like K5o and J4s deep and c/r too much in the wrong spots and just be more suspicious in general.
Your book seems to be tailored to your old 100$ grinding self.
-> So regulars will get a lot out of it.
-> fish will be fish, unless they start working hard on their game instead of just reading your book once.