Originally Posted by lMikro
I read about these books 1 and 2 on these threads and it looked weirdo, so i didnt buy them, until now. Five minutes and i knew i made a mistake, then read them two hours and got nothing, just useless nonpractical detail and random bits of text there.
I could easily print a complete preflop and river strategy with snowie and janda in two pages.
Then flop and turn book, much again some preflop stuff as so so, mixed with random bits of flop and i suppose turn also, again no practical use nor even semi complete as strategy.
There are real sources for flop and turn play, and river play, especially janda, little. I added snowie and figured it all technically and exoloitively out, printed my own preflop, flop and turn strategies in detail, the preflop though many pages but i could make a basically complete summary, including 1 on 1, while the mains of flop and turn in position with the lead on the flop took one page. This to give the idea what is useful.
And as heads up 1 on 1 poker book, this isnt it either, if u dont count the random second rate info as so. If there is some use in these books, the time has passed them, but i didnt see anything useful and i have 6 months of study and play nlh and moved to nlh50.
So, this is easily a pass, the book 1 and 2. If u have nothing else to do, then maybe, but i suspect they will even help ur thinking like does little cash books with janda background.
The problem with these books is that there isnt a complete view into strategy, just some random thoughts like 2 plus 2 style, though is d and b book. Little is the latter and janda the former, so it is not always like this, and i have the db plo book and it is good, though not high level but good and gave me some more to hwang, including the plo gto effort.
Similar books in their own way like these two books are the 2 plus two plo book and the other basically limit holdem chatter book that had not as much polaris bot hands as the intelligent poker player has that is an okay book because of it, for lhe players, but his other book, further limit holdem, is similarly useless though it had a couple pages of polaris hands but the other book covers that better. If u like books like ace on the river, maybe u can have a cup of coffee with these kind of books also, but if u want to get something useful, this book is not for you.