David Sklansky

Today, I started reading one of David Sklansky's books, Small Stakes Hold'em, And, two things surprised me, or stood out, from the get go.

Mr Sklansky says that the big time pro poker players did not know how to play small stakes poker. Seems weird to me. But that is what is in the first few pages of the book.

Another thing is: that guys like David Sklansky, Ed Miller and Mason Malmuth, all have degrees in math or sciences of some kind or other. jeez,
how can one compete with these educated peeps.

Dang, I barely made it out of College, and one thing that almost shot me down was Algebra. lol

Guess I had better stay in my little World of penny poker, play money and freerolls. haha

Just a thought. I will write a note or two during my travels through the book.

Good luck,

mike

Hello mange1234. That is interesting because as my bankroll grew at Full Flush I went up a level when I had enough money so I didn't have to worry about losing a little. Well I got to $.25/$.50 and I started losing, so I started going back down. And I felt the same way going down as I did going up. Guess you could say that I felt out of place. I would say that a low level for a pro would be the boring thing they ever done.

Those guys may all have hardcore math qualifications, but the level of math you need to be a successful poker player is actually pretty basic. You don't need to be doing algebra and game theory at the table, just making some basic odds calculations.

I just want to make it clear to everyone this is a LIMIT hold'em book. With that being said if you're actually playing limit these days, you probably need to move to NL. That's where the serious fish are at, and you can get a much higher winrate concentrating on that game.

However, with that being said, this book actually helped me when I was silly/sick enough to grind $20/$40 limit. If you're playing $5/$10 limit or lower, I think you'd be much MUCH better off reading Lee Jones' Low Limit Hold'em

Hope this is kosher:
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Low-Limit-Holdem-Lee-Jones/dp/1886070237"]Winning Low-Limit Hold'em: Lee Jones: 9781886070233: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]

We all start some where and move up. Sure that was the cause with David Sklansky.

Read the book 3 yrs ago.

If Im not mistaken, this is a limit book.

Your play will be affected (not in adjacent) if you play non limit holdem like no limit.