Written in October:

Pretty impressed that an author has actually managed to correctly forecast when he will get his book out.

Listening to the podcasts, I've noticed you talk a lot more on about game theory and solver-type thinking than in older episodes. Have you changed you mind on how much it's important or do you think the games have changed?

In TGM you have:

You still think that's correct, right?

Absolutely. This is always going to be super solid advice.

I talk more about GTO based thoughts now because 100 Hands is a more advanced text that is far more GTO conscious. I find exploitative play a little more basic and easy to understand, plus I covered it very fully in TGM. 100 Hands focuses on both offensive and defensive thought processes and aboslutely adheres to the quoted rule.

As I was announcing that the book would be ready around this time, I too doubted that it actually would be! I somehow managed it! Don't count on such accurate predictions every time though

ETA for kindle version?

I'm hoping it should be ready in about a week's time.

Ty a lot, gonna snapbuy also this one.
Cheers

I've read through the first 11 hands ... very solid, and blends in perfectly actually with the thought processes taught in TGM

So what do u think about Janda's opinion there are only 2 reasons to bet (similar as Beluga stated in his 3rd edition of Easy game):

1. We bet or raise to make the pot bigger in case we win.
2. We bet or raise to deny our opponent the ability to realize his equity.

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It's now being reviewed by amazon and should be up in the next day or two.

Thanks for the kind words and really happy to hear about people enjoying it at this very early stage

As poker terminology has only been around for a tiny amount of time relative to the rest of our language, I think that we have to be very careful about semantic confusions.

I think that the notions of bluffing and semi-bluffing are distributed within both of the above reasons to bet. Of course reason 2 can basically cover any kind of bluffing scenario, but for newer players I find it much clearer to differentiate betting with a hand that is likely best to deny equity and betting with a hand that is very often worse against Villain's folding range to win a pot that we cannot often win by not betting.

I think the three tier approach (value bluff and protection) makes a far more applicable impact on the student's understanding. There are times when protection is unnecessary but bluffing is necessary or vice versa and so being able to separate these things in your tool kit is a worthwhile skill, even if there is a lot of crossover between all of the reasons to bet in temrs of pure EV gained and lost.

I couldn't agree more. So far I have read free sample and it looks good. Definitely gonna buy the book. I have a question: in case there will be newer version (correcting mistakes for example) do I still get the copy once I bought it? Thanks !

Yes absolutely. An updated version (if one is required) will be free to anyone who has purchased the first edition. So far, I'm quite happy with the level of accuracy of this edition, but time will tell

Hey guys. Kindle version of 100 Hands now available on the Amazon store. As always, if you are wanting both versions please buy the PDF from my webstie and receive a free kindle book by emailing me afterwards. This helps me make my living from teaching and writing about poker. Thanks guys

Just bought and sent you an email, thanks, looking forward to it!

Thanks for buying a copy. I've sent the kindle version over. Enjoy!

Thanks for the quick response and Kindle copies, I look forward to reading soon!

Finished reading it, still loving it and will need to read and work through TGM and 100 Hands several times over ... if only someone could write a book on poker tournaments that comes even close to this

TGM was great, i went ahead and ordered 100hands for kindle a few days ago.


Hand 28: is this a troll? Call KJo from BB after a raise and call, flop JJ9, decide to lead it, get raised, call flop, call turn, fold river on brick brick??!? Why lead at all then? Why call pre when you flop the best possible hand for your two hole cards just about?

Getting raised after leading is a fairly rare occruence so it would be a mistake to evaluate the decision to lead based only on how we play or feel after getting raised. Our EV when we get raised here will never be good, but nor will it be great if we check/call down three times to a triple in a pot that was three way on the flop. essentially when our opponents take lines that rep better hands than ours, they will often have those hands in this situation and so none of these worlds are good for us regardless of how we played the flop.

Correct me if I'm reading your post wrong, but you seem to be making a very shaky assumption here that our calling ranges shouldn't narrow if the board texture doesn't change. Optimal play actually requires that we have some hands that fold to the flop raise, others that call flop fold turn; another group that call flop and turn and then fold river; and lastly a group that calls down. To want to call all of your bluff catchers because of no change in board texture is to assume that Villain is overbluffing (bluffing more than is balanced) We do not have reason to suppose this is true here.

We do not know what Villain's range is. Rather than guess what street to fold, we decide where this hand falls in our range and if population reads may guide us to fold less or more than is balanced. The third barrell is very rarely fired in these games, especially on non changing run-outs, hence the suggestion that we should fold on the river and overfold the range with which we arrive there.

Lastly, no I don't try to troll my readers and I am happy for them to disagree. It can only generate healthy discussion.

Thanks very much and glad that you have enjoyed both books

Also be careful here. There are thousands of different branches on which we flop trips each with it's own action sequence, texture and EV. Don't assume that because we folded a very strong hand on one branch that calling pre-flop is bad. This is the worst sequence of events for us to have trips, what about all the other thousands of situations where we don't face someone repping a stronger hand than ours and we make a few bets? What about winning some pots without a made hand by semi-bluffing? What about the pot odds and the reasonable standards they set us for how well we need to do on average post-flop in the first place?

Poker is a game of many potential realities. I always advise my students to zoom out and consider the combined picture of these realities.

I also bought your new book and sent an email.

I just got the copy of the Kindle version from Pete, but I'm having an issue opening it on my Kindle devices. I'm curious if anyone else has run into something similar.

I can open the file on my PC and view with the Kindle PC app... But it won't sync to Amazon via the Manage My Content page.

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Being new to NLHE but having some Limit experience: A week in, I'm loving this book. It's super easy to read and follow along with. The concepts seamlessly build upon each other, just like how a text or any instructional manual intends to. I feel that if I had just purchased this book, that I wouldn't have needed to purchase all the others. If someone were to ask me how to learn NLHE by reading books, id tell them to start here. I'll definitely be picking up Peter's other book(s).

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^ Are you talking about the Grinder's Manual or the new book? You mean someone who already played some other form of poker and wanted to learn NLHE I assume.

If the grinder's manual (and probably the new one too) then you need to side-load it to your kindle - i.e. connect by USB to PC, browse file structure of kindle, copy it to somewhere on Kindle. I don't think amazon will sync things you haven't bought from them but I might be wrong about that.