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He is definitely holding back information. Out of 485 pages in this book, he talks about 'tells' for just one page. Daniel Negreanu is best at reading his opponents. No real reason to purchase the book; all the other stuff he talks about is well known stuff. Just two short paragraphs. And that one page isn't even very good. Also, 2/3 of the book is not written by Negreanu. This book is a scam.
It also allows you to take advantage of your greatest edge when you are playing lesser experienced players, post-flop play with a confused opponet. Negreanu's section on "small-ball" has helped my tournament play greatly. While negating the novice players greatest edge, pre-flop aggression with small odds advantages.A word of advise though, skip straight to Daniel's small ball section, the ~350 pages leading up to it is basically a mix of crap and regurgitated concepts. Although, if you do not have the discipline to play in position, give up hands to resistance, and avoid big pots with small hands you're going to take a beating playing with a "Small Ball" style. Also, it is difficult to apply it to poorly structured tourneys where you don't have the chips to make numerous moves over a long period of time.The small ball style that Negreanu shows you will open up your play without taking huge risks, and develop a style that will get you paid off on your huge hands without it being obvious that you have the best of it. Davids Williams section on "Mixing it up" is especially craptacular, and while he did a good job I have to imagine that they could have found someone better than Todd Brunson to write a section on high stakes cash games. Basically the only other portion of the book with any value is 3 pages by Brunson titled "Dealing with Mega-Loss".
154 pages are missing. while the information revealed in this book is from top notch pros. 63 pages are index dicionary and other books cardoza sells.there are actually only 455 of instructional pages. the advertisement for the book described it as a 672 page book. well it is far short. I ordered the book because i respect every pros opinion and thoughts on the game of hold'em.However cardoza publishing needs to acknowledge the fact that they took forever to get this book on the market and then they did not deliver the amount of instruction they hyped up for a couple years. very poor buisness practice and very deceptive to their loyal customers, so very dissapointed with cardoza.hopefully the contents will make up for the outright false marketing of the book.-"J.D." poker student.(ps)follow up on actual instructional contents after a complete study.
The fact is, this book is one of the top books worth owning for what you can learn from it. But a poker book is important if it provides invaluable information that you can't get elsewhere.
This book follows a similar model to SS with a variety of guest writers contributing a number of chapters before we get to Negreanu's part. Though none of these are as good as the chapters Sklansky or Caro contribute in SS, they're still worth checking out if you're interested.
Negreanu's attempt at the next Super System with his "Small Ball" strategy taking the place of Doyle Brunson's aggressive, take no prisoners approach. If only half of a novel is good that's a pretty lousy book.
Of course the valuable part of this book is Negreanu's chapter and the explanation of his particular, and particularly potent style of play, complete with statistical explanations, and guide for playing small ball. Rating poker books is different than rating other books.
A lot of people here have dropped the rating on this book as if people can't just skip around the fluff. As they say, "nuff said."
Really helpful strategies for every type of player. This is a book every level of poker player should have.
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