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Sit 'n Go Strategy Expert Advice For Beating One-Table Poker Tournaments by Collin Moshman
Who has read it? I picked it up yesterday and am now 94 pages into it. Some of the ideas and concepts in this book are good, and I can get behind them. Some of the things Collin is instructing his readers to do is completely contrary to everything I have learned and believe about how to play poker. Throughout the first 94 pages Collin repeatedly gives hand examples and details how the hands should be played. One of the things he keeps on reintegrating is to change your pre flop bet sizes depending on what your hole cards are. He does not say, "Ok now with kings you always raise 4x and with 8s raise 2.5x." He does give hand examples throughout the book and so far I have noticed that he is saying to raise different amounts and it always changes by hand strength.
This makes it really hard for me to get behind what he is saying. Has anyone else read the entire book through? Maybe I am just not far enough along in the book and I will start to see how this would work out, but so far when I read that I should come in for a 2.5x the BB raise with 88 and I should come in for 3 to 4x the BB with KK it screams WRONG!!!! Am I missing something in my play? I will admit that bet sizing is not something that I have ever really studied. I have always kept my sizing pretty much the same, albeit I do tailor my bet size to each individual table I am at and according to the specific blind sizes at the time of the tournament. I always bet the same though. I will come in for the exact same amount regardless of what two cards I hold. I do this so you will not know if I have 88 or KK or 67s. What am I missing here? Why would Moshman tell his readers to vary their bet sizes?
Who has read it? I picked it up yesterday and am now 94 pages into it. Some of the ideas and concepts in this book are good, and I can get behind them. Some of the things Collin is instructing his readers to do is completely contrary to everything I have learned and believe about how to play poker. Throughout the first 94 pages Collin repeatedly gives hand examples and details how the hands should be played. One of the things he keeps on reintegrating is to change your pre flop bet sizes depending on what your hole cards are. He does not say, "Ok now with kings you always raise 4x and with 8s raise 2.5x." He does give hand examples throughout the book and so far I have noticed that he is saying to raise different amounts and it always changes by hand strength.
This makes it really hard for me to get behind what he is saying. Has anyone else read the entire book through? Maybe I am just not far enough along in the book and I will start to see how this would work out, but so far when I read that I should come in for a 2.5x the BB raise with 88 and I should come in for 3 to 4x the BB with KK it screams WRONG!!!! Am I missing something in my play? I will admit that bet sizing is not something that I have ever really studied. I have always kept my sizing pretty much the same, albeit I do tailor my bet size to each individual table I am at and according to the specific blind sizes at the time of the tournament. I always bet the same though. I will come in for the exact same amount regardless of what two cards I hold. I do this so you will not know if I have 88 or KK or 67s. What am I missing here? Why would Moshman tell his readers to vary their bet sizes?