Well I read the first half so far and sifted through the rest briefly. I am glad that I bought it but if you already know the ins and outs on PT (like you ChuckT) it might not tell you much that you don't already know.
The first part showed you how to set everything up. It showed you how to review sessions, playback
hands, and what to look at to try and find/fix leaks in your game. This is what I read so far and was very informative for me but probably doesn't give any knew info if you already use this.
The second part is all about player tracking. It shows you how to set it up to track players by observing and playing. The writer of the book said he opens up tables as many tables as it will observe before he goes to bed at night so he can get that much more info on people in his database (amazing).
It teaches you how to read all of the statistics and what they mean and how to use that info.
Probably the most useful thing that I learned that I can't wait to get set up is the 'notes exporter'. You can have PT create notes on players using all of the hand histories and info collected and then export them out to the sites so they automatically tag the player and make notes on them. WOW! That'll help me pick ring game tables.
Pretty good helpers manual for a PT newbie for just $20. If you already have had PT for a while though you have probably already played around with all of this and figured it out.
P.S. -- ChuckTs....I didn't see anything on the Tournament side of things. You should email him your article to put in there for a royalty. Hell if you only get 1-2 bucks a book, I'm sure that will be a very nice score
. That is defintely something that they missed out on.