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Originally Posted by pokerfan655
They put out the book to make money - no other reason. They tried to take a new approach coming up with extreme scenarios that exist <1% - I like the thinking side of this but most will wrongly apply it and hurt their win rate. I think with all the info out there these days low stake books are obsolete, and really the practice should be with solvers and other tools.
As I indicated previously, Sklansky explained in the podcast that the weird plays with extreme scenarios were put in the Introduction by Mason to create controversy and therefore interest in the book. If you read the book or listen to the podcast, you will see that is not what it is about.
There are some other things in the book, which were badly presented, butwere important theoretical points. For example, it talked about limping like Q6s in ep, which just seems bad. In the podcast, Sklansky mentioned open limping 22 or A6s in ep in some 1/3 games, although theoretically those are folds. IMO that is reasonable play in most low stakes games. In general, you want to play those hands multiway, so limping or raising smallish is generally better than folding or raising large to get it HU or 3-way.
He also talked about miniraising at several limpers. IMO that is silly when you can make it like 12 in a 1/3 game and build the pot more without the weird play. He mentioned that was particularly good with like 55, as they will often check to you and you can check and get to see 4 cards rather than 3.
There are useful points in the book, and I don't see how you would get that information from studying GTO, much less working directly with solvers.