I'm impressed. It's not a particularly entertaining book. The ego-less ness is amazing. The hands are pretty boring. Careful analysis, and pretty deep reads, and then we don't see if they were even right. And that is really irrelevant, if you stop to think about it. These guys could certainly pick hands that make them the hero if they wanted to, right? Easy.
That's just one example of many. Sometimes we lose the hand. The point being against his possible range we were good, but against the specific hand, we weren't. Surely that is a big part of the "meta-lesson".
A lot of the plays focus on spots where you are concerned that your play is too weak, but you take the weak line anyway. Isn't that really the toughest thing to do? I'm only half way through, it's not an easy read.
I think I'm gonna be reading the "pearl jammer" section while I am playing WSOP events this year, as I think it will give me patience and determination - deep stack, slow structure changes your decisions so much. Putting in a whole first day just trying to survive should be fairly gruelling.
Any other good books?
No poker tonight for me. I played bad yesterday. I can (and did) try to rationalize it, but it is what it is. If I just want to goof around I should just put some more money in, and have fun. Grinding for nickels is still my quest. We'll see how long I can take it.
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