Power Hold'em Strategy

OK so I bought the new Daniel Negreanu Book, and like the HOH thread I'm going to try and have a discussion, if anyone else is reading it, in this thread. If not then I will just give my opinions on it and a short review

Look forward to it. Recently read Lindgrens article ima ssuming he is semi-lowball strategy.

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I have not bought it, but wondered if it was worthwhile. I would like to hear your view of it. Is it worth the money? I heard his previous book was not.

i havent read the book but i know one of his good strategies....its called SMALL BALL....all i knoe is..its basically earnin a pot without riskin alot of ur stack......hope u guys add some info on this too....

Ya small ball, borrowed from baseball, take a bunch of little gains (bunt, steal, get a bunch of singles) over time, rather than risking the entire game or stack on one long ball (aim for the home run with bases loaded).
In poker, Dan small balls it by using small raises to keep pots small, then trying to steal them with C bets that dont cost a lot. If you meet resistance, let it go and try another...

so far the first and the third chapters are begginers straategy and basically everything I already know, tod brunsons chapter on high stakes cash games isnt too bad, im looking forward to daniels part....the funniest thing so far is that Lindgren used to play on 4 comps just to play 8 tables lmao....

I learned a few months ago that the average professional poker player makes more money off of selling books than they do playing poker. So basically a majority of their revenue comes from book sales. Pretty sweet, huh?

Negreanu is good but i don't think ill buy his book. Watching him on tv tourneys is better for learing then a book imo. You see what he actually does not just boasts about in his book.

i read about 1/3 of the book at the local barnes and noble store.. sometimes i just go there and read books for free( lol ) ... it seemed like a decent book.. the book that caught my attention is the Gus Hansen book.. I like the way he describes the hands.. his logic and decision making.. i think i`ll buy it

The problem with this is, that his strategy is based on plating a lot of small pots and taking them down early like on the flop or turn, and tv only shows big showdown hands or reads by Negreanu, so you will learn more by reading

has your game got any better after reading the book, or has it adversley affected it.

well I'm not done readingit, and I dont think that my game can get worse by reading a book?!

OK King, this seems to be the first actual discussion about the book so here it goes. I Love this book. I'm not through it completely yet but i'm in the middle of Daniels section. The one thing that I've actually started doing is playing my suited connectors differently. And as long as you play it right it can be extremely devistating to your opponent. As long as a raise doesnt damage my stack to bad I've been calling raises that I wouldnt normally call. Usually once you have an Idea of how your opponents play you can pretty much figure they're raising with a good hand, Pairs, Aces, AK etc. the main problem is that if you call a raise w/AK or AQ and run into aces your gonna get smashed and possibly lose everything, but when you call Aces with 45suited and the flop comes 459 or 855 your pretty much gonna stack your opponent, cause alot of people will overplay a big hand. And the biggest thrill comes from the heat that comes down on you at the table. People screaming donkey cause you called with 45. What no one realizes is the little invested in calling the raise can be dumped alot easier than if you flopped top pair with a decent or crappy kicker. I now pretty much expect to be trashed when I use these tactics, and just laugh. I actually had a guy the next day come on and tell everyone that I bluff alot just cause he got blasted by my little hand, when in reality he overplayed a hand that was drawing dead. I don't bluff alot at all, but that fool basically just insured that I was gonna get called when I bet big. I'm sure you probably knew these thing before but I'm kinda new (less than a year) to poker and just had to put my 2 cents in about this book. I have a feeling this one will be read many times (Daniels section at least). And I'd like to here what you have to say about the book as well.

Guys poker books. Are they any good.

Cmon , i have serious doubts. There's so muc hstrategy available over the net , + realy live tournaments you'll can watch over youtube. And are professionals actually gonna leak out they're strats in public? Its insane.

Consider yourself a pro poker player , and you giving out your strats on poker. Its the shit.

Well if some1 can please temme how poker books are worth it plz write in.!

yes they will leak(sell) their strats, it makes them extra income.
Doyle Brunson has a book worth about $100 out there and has sold hundreds if not thousands, you do the math.
Do you play poker without knowing the proper odds, position and reads on your table?
There is so much to learn from poker books just like there is so much to learn from any educational book.

daniel is a good player but that system is kind of weird-but it works for him-you just have to find your own niche and intergrate diffrent styles from other players and make it your own-this will not work for everyone but its a good blueprint inside the mind of a good player-the_urge27