New Book Announcement
I'm putting this both here and on the Books and Publications Forum.
David Sklansky and I are working on a new book tentat
I am almost positive it depends on how deep you are and a little bit of which villain you are facing. How come you guys didn't include this very important information? Is it not important? I am very surprised you guys are giving GTO hand history reviews while ignoring stack depth.
Stack depth will impact the number of rounds you can bet, There's discussion of that in the text.
A chapter that follows the excerpt is titled "Also Consider Your Opponent’s Range."
In addition, we're not giving GTO hand history reviews. We're trying to show how the mathematics that drives GTO play impacts how GTO says to play a hand. A lot of this came from private work that I did all the way back in the late 1980s. See the chapter "Betting and Game Theory" in my Gambling Theory book.
I am pretty sure that by pure betting here you are playing exploit poker yourself because you aren't balancing your range. Villains can learn after a bit that you never check sets, which means you are exploiting the player pool and also leaving yourself up for exploitation as well. Does that make sense to you guys?
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by pure betting. But when playing GTO you bet appropriate hands from your range and this includes your value bets and your bluffs which will then produce a balanced range of bets. There is also a chapter titled "Range Protection" which explains when it would be correct to hold back and not bet some of your legitimate value hands, and this can certainly include flopped sets.
You guys didn't print the book yet did you? Hopefully there is still time for you guys to fix these issues.
All our books are now done through Amazon and are print by demand which means a book is printed only when someone buys it. And this means we can always make a fix before the next one gets printed. The days of printing thousands on books at one time are long gone.
Needless to say, once you incorporate stack depth you will need to redo your GTO calculations.
There aren't any GTO calculations in the book. What is there is discussion of how GTO math drives your playing decisions.
Finally, the majority of the book is on exploitive play. But there are a bunch of chapters in the first section of the book which are on GTO and we believe that much of this Game Theory material will be new to most readers.
Thanks for your comments.
The printed version of our new book No-Limit Hold 'em: Important Topics Not Normally Addressed by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth is now live on Amazon. Here's the Amazon link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1880685752
The kindle will be available in about 10 days and then the audio version should follow a few days later.
Are you going to have a section covering David's jail stint for domestic abuse?
Are you going to have a section covering David's jail stint for domestic abuse?
No. It's strictly a poker book.
Are you going to have a section covering David's jail stint for domestic abuse?
lol no need to be an *******. BTW its a misdemeanor so no jail time my man.
The cover art is alright, but not nearly as good as Fundamentals of Craps which was truly elite.
It is ranked 748K on Amazon, so it has probably literally sold one copy.
The sample seems way better than what was posted here, but not sure about it. It is about how GTO says you should cbet more and bigger on an AK4 flop than a 963 flop if you raised in early position.
It is ranked 748K on Amazon, so it has probably literally sold one copy.
The sample seems way better than what was posted here, but not sure about it. It is about how GTO says you should cbet more and bigger on an AK4 flop than a 963 flop if you raised in early position.
Except that excerpt was also posted as the second excerpt from the book and you can find it above. See post #147.
Also, the excerpt states that when you bet large (relative to the size of the pot) you also don’t bet some of your strong hands. In addition, if you read the excerpt you’ll see that your bet size is dependent on how well the flop/board fits your range. So it’s not necessarily high cards on board means you should bet big.
And the sales rank just improved.
Yeah, the sample seemed OK, like it was explaining some GTO concepts. Not very advanced material, but focused on the ideas, and maybe useful to players who don't fully understand the GTO analysis on Runitonce, etc. Way better than the first excerpt, as I mentioned.
Yeah, the sample seemed OK, like it was explaining some GTO concepts. Not very advanced material, but focused on the ideas, and maybe useful to players who don't fully understand the GTO analysis on Runitonce, etc. Way better than the first excerpt, as I mentioned.
I haven’t watched the Runitonce stuff. But I have read a bunch of books where they, in a sense, have the right answers but their explanations of why the solver does what it does is frequently not as accurate as it should be. What we’re trying to do in our Game Theory chapters is to explain what the GTO math leads to without doing the math itself. So, it’s not an effort to explain complex information. But it’s an attempt to make GTO strategies more sensible to many players.
By the way, in my Gambling Theory book there’s a chapter titled “Betting and Game Theory” where some GTO math is shown and it’s difficult to follow. But the results given are not.
Best Sellers Rank:
#510,701 in Books
#179 in Poker (Books)
Maybe David's recent "publicity" can help it crack the top 500,000.
A man can dream.
Best Sellers Rank:
#510,701 in Books
#179 in Poker (Books)
Maybe David's recent "publicity" can help it crack the top 500,000.
A man can dream.
It's amazing how little you understand.
The kindle isn't ready, and then the audio book will follow and all of this can take a couple of weeks. Once that happens we'll make a little effort to promote it. There's also an error in the title of the book on the Amazon page. This was caused by the R.R. Bowker company where the ISBN numbers come from, something else that you would know nothing about, and we're in the process of getting that corrected.
The book is most similar to my Poker Essays books, and we expect it to be a moderate seller at best.
By the way, the book does contain some sophisticated material, especially on Game Theory and how it works in poker. So, you probably shouldn't read it.
We've loaded the appropriate files into Amazon for the kindle. And we expect the kindle to be up in a day or two.
About halfway through. It's a good book but there are quite a few typos.
Purchased.
The book went through lots of proofreading but some spelling errors do always get through. However, we just uploaded a new file to Amazon where 8 spelling errors were fixed, but we can’t change them in the book you have. But the information, which is the important part, will be the same.
While not a complete excuse since the proof reading is supposed to pick up and correct the errors, I did have surgery on my right hand about a year and a half ago and it has affected my typing a little bit.
Any way, glad to hear you liked the book.
The book went through lots of proofreading but some spelling errors do always get through. However, we just uploaded a new file to Amazon where 8 spelling errors were fixed, but we can’t change them in the book you have. But the information, which is the important part, will be the same.While not a complete
Yes, just thought I would help and give back a little in some way. Like you said, it doesn't affect the information. It's easily worth the price, like all the other 2+2 books I have. Appreciate you!
Yes, just thought I would help and give back a little in some way. Like you said, it doesn't affect the information. It's easily worth the price, like all the other 2+2 books I have. Appreciate you!
Before the book was published I spent three days in St. George, UT for final proofreading and final editing and probably made over 200 fixes. And for those familiar with St. George I spent a lot of time in the Feel Love Cafe doing this work. But you just don’t get them all.
Thanks again for the positive comments.
For those interested th kindle is now up:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GM256DL3/ref...
and as soon as we get the approval from Amazon, we'll begin work on the audio version.
Moving on up!
Best Sellers Rank: #141,772 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#4 in Poker (Kindle Store)
#22 in Poker (Books)
#17,020 in Nonfiction (Kindle Store)
The book went through lots of proofreading but some spelling errors do always get through. However, we just uploaded a new file to Amazon where 8 spelling errors were fixed, but we can’t change them in the book you have.
Spelling errors don't affect substance, of course, but unless we are talking about names, obscure proper nouns, and the like, I don't see how any modern book could end up with spelling errors. You can spell check a 500 page transcript in five minutes or less.
Spelling errors don't affect substance, of course, but unless we are talking about names, obscure proper nouns, and the like, I don't see how any modern book could end up with spelling errors. You can spell check a 500 page transcript in five minutes or less.
Our books are written using Word Perfect, and in this program the mis-spelt words are underlined in red, but the red is very light and it’s easy to miss, For final proof reading I print the book out because there are lots of other things to check, but it’s not a perfect process and I usually still miss a few things. However, we now believe that the mid-spelt words have all been corrected, there were only a few of them, and if you order a printed version from Amazon, that’s what you’ll get.
Also, when we load the kindle files into Amazon we get a list from Amazon of mis-spelt words and there were a total of eight of them. These have fixed in the printed version but it will take a few days to get them fixed in the kindle since we’ll have to have the kindle builder make the fixes.
I got the book for free with my Kindle subscription. It seems decent. The low stakes book had good ideas, but some weird advice. This one seems more solid and like classic Sklansky material.
The beginning is about the types of situations solvers recommend certain sizings, etc. and why they make those recommendations. There are free videos by Upswing and others that discuss what solvers recommend in certain situations and why, as well as when not to follow solver recommendations. Some of that material seemed easier to apply than that in this book.
There was a section on when to fold KK. It mentioned a 3! and 4! preflop from tight unimaginative players at low stakes. Also, a situation where you called a limp/3!, the flop came Q-high and the 3-bettor bet big. At that point you are losing to AA and QQ, and can only beat a bluff.
As the title implies, it focuses on fairly common but a little nonstandard situations.
It is much better than I expected based on the low stakes book and the first sample posted here.
