Hello all,

I read in the forum rules that its safe to pose questions about various books, so even though this isn't a 2+2 book, I hope I'm abiding by the rules here and can get some assistance.

I hope that a few lurkers have this book and can help me out with a few quirks of this book. At this point, I have 2 issues, which I'll list below.

1) In the pre-flop section of the book, there's starting hand ranges which is all fine and good. What drives me nuts about this book, to the point of flipping back to the beginning to make sure I haven't missed anything, is how the authors dont mention what constitutes "weak" or "premium" hands.

For instance, on page 86, the section on unraised pots, the first line is, "With your weaker hands, check and take the free flop."

The next paragraph: "Often raise with good cards".

What are "weak" and/or "good" cards? There's no key that outlines this, and there's no way from deriving this from the charts either. If someone supplies a range of hands and says to play just the "good" ones, without supplying a definition of what "good" is.. should that be the top 10% of the range? the top 15%? Big suited broadway only? AA or KK?

My next issue with the book is the quizzes, or more precisely, the answers to the quizzes. There's numerical values for each option choice, so if there's an "a", "b" or "c" choice, it might say, a-10, b-3, c-1. It's clear that the higher the value, the more "correct" it is, but still, it doesnt add up to 10, so I can't really assume its a percentage based choice.

Those are my issues with this book and it drives me nuts! Any help is much appreciated!

I have not read the book but...

For preflop you can figure out what hands to raise for value fairly easy with a good equity calculator. Just stay away from hands that don't play well postflop like A7o (though you could still want to raise some of these for reasons such as isolation)

In other books with quizzes in that format the points assigned to answers are independent to each other. Assuming they mean something along these lines 10) The correct play 5) Not correct but you could have done worse things 0) you are burning money.

Yeah, I've thought of that, but trying to make sure I haven't missed anything. This is about the 5th book I've gone through and typically this sort of thing is explained. The purpose of the chapter is playing the proper hands and it clearly emphasizes going too far with the wrong hands is bad poker. I wouldn't think they'd leave it to the players discretion after making that point.

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