Applications of No Limit Hold'em

When you start it (or if you just read the sample), you might think it’ll be dull as dirt and will oversell what ends up being a mechanical, if rigorously generated, approach. Just the reverse. Extremely thoughtful work that’s always aware of the limits of a mathematical approach and of the mechanical herd mentality that dominates most supposedly theoretically “correct” play (and is really why certain players, who can think clearly for themselves, crush those games). Which is to say if you want to find out what math can and can’t do vis a vis poker, read this book. it won’t tell you what to do or try to prove to you (or even imply) that intuition and feel don’t matter; it will make some of your thinking dramatically more logical and consistent, and it will surprise you by, yes, proving that certain commonly accepted strategies are just plain dumb and wrong. It takes some patience to get through, but what’s not to like?