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do you have a ton of games played on a site other than FTP/Stars or something? I see you having just shy of 5,300 games played with $2,000 total in 6-9man sng profit.
I don't see how you can be considered qualified to teach someone how to beat SnGs if you don't have a history of beating them yourself. You even mention quizzes for mid-stakes games which, unless you played on another site, you never played yourself.
I mean it really seems like a joke if that is really the extent of your sng playing.
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Originally Posted by Cwocwoc
zerosum doesn't appear to be qualified. This was pointed out on the very first page of the thread by someone else.
This might be the case in other forms of poker. Deep cash; for example, but sound SNG strategy is more based on mastering the exact topics covered in this book, not having a huge sample size as a self run Monte Carlo simulation to prove your correct before teaching the topic to others. This package has convinced me that is nice, but not required.
I think the type of questioning of volume and results actual applied to Tri "SlowHabit" Nguyen for example who seems to be more interested in building a publishing empire rather then being a winning poker player may have merit, but I don't think it applies here to this book.
Does an author/coach need to shove 250,000 hands in actual sng games he played and enter them into Wizard to prove his ICM Calculations are correct? I have seen a ton of good SNG video's on training sites and am convinced that learning fundamental sound play is exactly what is needed to beat SNG's. That is exactly what is covered in this book, and it's presented in an easy to learn format with someone that clearly has the intangibles of being a good teacher.
I think you could find someone with low volume that could teach a solid math based short stack cash strategy and would not have to actually play hundreds of thousands of hands to prove the system is sound.
This book is not perfect and when I post my full review I will point out my issues.....Maybe it could have had a better title; for example, because there seems to be focus on that. Maybe Zero should have called it "The Anatomy Of Winning SNG Play"; as an example. Interestingly there is another book from: Carl “The Dean” Sampson called Crushing Online Single Table Tournaments, Which has always looked like a scam to me. But, this book has good material who really cares what it's titled.