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11-06-2023 , 10:14 PM
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David Sklansky and I are writing a new book: Small Stakes No-Limit Hold ’em: Help Them Give You Their Money; Exploiting Weaknesses in Small Stakes No-Limit Hold ’em Games. We expect to have it out in about two months, and it's very different from most other books on these games.

I'm also working on a rewrite and expansion of my book Gambling Theory and Other Topics. It should be available in about three months.

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David Sklansky and I are writing a new book: Small Stakes No-Limit Hold ’em: Help Them Give You Their Money; Exploiting Weaknesses in Small Stakes No-Limit Hold ’em Games. We expect to have it out in about two months, and it's very different from most other books on these games.

I'm also working on a rewrite and expansion of my book Gambling Theory and Other Topics. It should be available in about three months.

Mason
On both of these books, while not yet certain, we're going to consider doing some free kindle give-a-ways. So watch my posts in the future as to when this might be done.
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11-06-2023 , 10:51 PM
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Nice.
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11-06-2023 , 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Mason Malmuth
David Sklansky and I are writing a new book: Small Stakes No-Limit Hold ’em: Help Them Give You Their Money; Exploiting Weaknesses in Small Stakes No-Limit Hold ’em Games. We expect to have it out in about two months, and it's very different from most other books on these games.

I'm also working on a rewrite and expansion of my book Gambling Theory and Other Topics. It should be available in about three months.

Mason
you know a lot more than me on this so obv consider the source of this constructive criticism butttt, I think the title is way too short.
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11-06-2023 , 11:30 PM
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David Sklansky and I are writing a new book: Small Stakes No-Limit Hold ’em: Help Them Give You Their Money; Exploiting Weaknesses in Small Stakes No-Limit Hold ’em Games. We expect to have it out in about two months, and it's very different from most other books on these games.

I'm also working on a rewrite and expansion of my book Gambling Theory and Other Topics. It should be available in about three months.

Mason
I’m looking forward to reading this. When will pre-order be available?
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11-07-2023 , 12:18 AM
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you know a lot more than me on this so obv consider the source of this constructive criticism butttt, I think the title is way too short.
I'm really glad you're back limon.
I look forward to this book as well.
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11-07-2023 , 12:51 AM
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you know a lot more than me on this so obv consider the source of this constructive criticism butttt, I think the title is way too short.
The words after the semicolon are the subtitle.

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11-07-2023 , 05:21 AM
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ooh, a book that actually tells you how to beat a typical game that actually exists, rather than overkill software that tells you how to lose the minimum in a theoretical game, i like the concept
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11-08-2023 , 09:00 AM
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it's very different from most other books on these games.

how so
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11-08-2023 , 09:03 AM
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You have gto in it? And how to deviate from gto?
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You have gto in it? And how to deviate from gto?
GTO in order to beat small stakes no-limit? I highly doubt that will be a cornerstone of the book, lol. Most likely a much more exploitive strategy.
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11-08-2023 , 01:19 PM
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Yes, but nits, maniacs, calling stations etc, varying. Gto must be the basis, from where to go, otherwise it's old school, imo. If you want to win the max right away, before collecting exploitive information.
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11-08-2023 , 03:29 PM
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How much volume of SSNL do you and Sklansky play these days
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11-08-2023 , 04:04 PM
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How much volume of SSNL do you and Sklansky play these days
I've played $1/3 with Mason at The Bellagio in the past year.
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Why are poker books still written with the delineations and categorizations of?:

“Small-stakes……”
“Mid-stakes……”
“High-stakes……”

Is that really the best way to learn and think about poker anymore? And are you really just saying, “How to play against”:

“Terrible opponents”
“Competent opponents”
“Pro-level opponents”

Or was this convention just a way to market 3 separate Holdem books for example (small stakes, mid, high) instead of just 1 poker book on the topic?
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11-08-2023 , 05:45 PM
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GTO in order to beat small stakes no-limit? I highly doubt that will be a cornerstone of the book, lol. Most likely a much more exploitive strategy.
The strategies given are highly exploitive.

Mason
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Yes, but nits, maniacs, calling stations etc, varying. Gto must be the basis, from where to go, otherwise it's old school, imo. If you want to win the max right away, before collecting exploitive information.
Actually GTO is the basis. We refer to it fairly often and give a basic explanation of it.. We acknowledge that it is what we are deviating from and point out how much it should be deviated from, depends on how the opponents play.
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11-08-2023 , 06:37 PM
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looking forward to reading it
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Actually GTO is the basis. We refer to it fairly often and give a basic explanation of it.. We acknowledge that it is what we are deviating from and point out how much it should be deviated from, depends on how the opponents play.
Great!
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Sounds interesting, looking forward to it.
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11-08-2023 , 11:36 PM
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Why are poker books still written with the delineations and categorizations of?:

“Small-stakes……”
“Mid-stakes……”
“High-stakes……”

Is that really the best way to learn and think about poker anymore? And are you really just saying, “How to play against”:

“Terrible opponents”
“Competent opponents”
“Pro-level opponents”

Or was this convention just a way to market 3 separate Holdem books for example (small stakes, mid, high) instead of just 1 poker book on the topic?
I’m really not sure your breakdown would be very useful to amateur players. In order to follow it’s advice, you’d first have to know how to identify whether a player is “terrible”, “competent”, or “pro-level”. It’s pretty easy for serious players to identify terrible players, but new players can’t even do this. And I’m not sure how anyone except a real expert player would identify someone as “pro-level” unless they literally recongnize them as a name pro.
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Actually GTO is the basis. We refer to it fairly often and give a basic explanation of it.. We acknowledge that it is what we are deviating from and point out how much it should be deviated from, depends on how the opponents play.
GTO shouldn't be considered at all at live low stakes. You basically have people giving away money at 1/3
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GTO shouldn't be considered at all at live low stakes. You basically have people giving away money at 1/3
That's how exploits are created.

First, you figure out how GTO plays a hand as best you can as your baseline strategy. Second, how much is this player deviating from GTO. Third, how do I attack this deviation.
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So glad that David Sklansky is still a thing, and that you continue to work him. Your judgement is even better than we already thought it was.
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11-09-2023 , 11:22 PM
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Yes, but nits, maniacs, calling stations etc, varying. Gto must be the basis, from where to go, otherwise it's old school, imo. If you want to win the max right away, before collecting exploitive information.
lol

Rock Paper scissors for money.
some idiot puts down rock 90 percent of the time.
I put down paper 100 percent of the time.

Some German bot puts down rock paper and scissors each 1/3rd of the time.
Gto baby unexploitable.
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