One of the less highlighted products in this year’s D&B poker is Hunter Cichy’s “No-Limit Hold’em: A Modern Approach to Poker Analysis.”
In the absence of advanced poker players, former deputy editor Dan Fordheiser sat around for a while before anyone had the courage to read what he thought about using his skills in his real career (published in June. Sorry, D&B). I admit I was worried that this would be a page of mathematical formulas that most of us don’t understand. The middle level poker books don’t seem to have much market. Most of them I’ve seen are either introductory or professional.
Advanced concepts include even more advanced concepts than Phil Gordon’s Little Green Book. For example, it’s still my favorite “Baby’s First Poker Book” despite its age, but if you’re looking at a book with “Advanced” in its title in the first place, it’s composed of five basic concepts you’re probably already familiar with: Fort Oz, Implicit Oz, Fort Oz, Fort Oz, Fold Oz, and Minimum Defensive Frequency. Sitch explores these concepts in depth, providing a clear analysis of mathematics, and highlighting the patterns and threads of logic through dozens of examples. 온라인경마
The section of the book dedicated to free-flop play is not the most entertaining reading in the world, but it’s clearly organized and articulated. The basics of this section are GTO opening range charts selected by the software program Focus Snowy. It’s not original, but it’s actually meticulously curated and structured based on play and location. Again, there’s a lot of description of the patterns that pop up just in case you’re not in the mood to memorize every single square of nearly 80 charts. Sitch also talks about situations where it helps you to deviate from your GTO strategy based on the types of mistakes your opponent is likely to make.
The post-flop play section makes readers feel more appealing as they walk through the decision-making process holding dozens of hands (I don’t think I’m the only one who finds the history of hands more appealing than charts). There’s a lot of material here, but I’ve noticed that I’ve been reading some hands multiple times because of their inherently high information density. Decisions are presented clearly and logically based on ideas I’ve explored in the previous section.
Like many D&B titles, the book offers QR codes that provide free access to some additional online content (in this case, Cichy’s free poker training video) and hours of additional strategy videos at exceptional discounts. The free video is recorded for an hour, the first few minutes of which are dedicated to explaining/upselling Cichy’s other coaching services. However, most of the videos are hand simulations, showing how both live and online players can extract utility from the focus snow and how Cichy approaches coaching.
Ultimately, one of the biggest advantages of this book is that it is very well organized to make it easy to find things you want to return to simply study. It may not sound like a big problem if you don’t have to reread the content as often as I do, but I’m grateful when difficult materials develop in a direction that is easy to navigate because it’s a walking stereotype that I’m not good at math.
This is a great choice for serious or novice recreational players who have grown more than basic poker strategy books but don’t want to get into that kind of math that uses a lot of Greek characters. I’m not that kind of player yet. If you’re not actively bored studying titles like the myth of poker talent, maybe put it off for a while until that happens.
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