New Poker Books...

[Aequitas58]

I heard from ActionJeff (namedropper!) that the new NLHE book by Sklansky is awesome. This along with HOH3 are my next two purchases.

For those who have accumulated FPP points, I think HOH3 is only 1500 FPP. That might be an inflated price (aren't all FPP items inflated?) but I'll have to check ebay before anything.

Kill Phil is supposed to be very unique for NLHE tournaments, but I have heard mixed reviews. I hear that it advocates very aggressive push-fold strategy, but it is reported that people have started seeing instant success by following it. Who knows.

I didn't know Fischman or Negreanu had books out. Something to look into.

[studiopet]

I'm about 1/2 through this one right now. Very very aggro. It isn't very heavy into post flop, turn play. In fact - I don't think I've ready anything about turn play in it yet. Its all about putting your opponet to a decision for all his chips. It has different categories of hands (looser than HoH) and based on position, when to push pre-flop. For example, AA would warrant a push from any position regardless of chip stack, tourney stage, etc. A10 would warrant a push from the button with limpers (something like that).

The basic underlying philosophy of it is this: Your not as good as your opponents, if you try and outplay them, you will loose. You should not have to make any post flop decisions unless you were the BB and did not push. Push early and put them to the decision for all their chips.

They do get into some advanced "kill phil" techniques that advocate pot sized bets rather than pushes but I'm just getting to that now.

Entertaining read though.

[PShabi]

[Tony Cheval]

Wow dude, I didn't know your slump was THAT bad.

EDIT: ---> Pshabi

[Talking Poker]

Oh, that wacky pshabi!

I already have all of those.

[Talking Poker]

This is an interesting theory, but realistically, it will only get you so far. IMO.