First book?

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The NL Hold’em section in Super System (SS) doesn't suck and is good for understanding LAG play. Just don't go overboard with Brunson's ideas.

I thought it was ok, but there were a whole lot of oddities. The most striking example was when he was recalling a hand in a major tournament that he won.

He had a small suited connector like 65s and was up against two guys with KK and KQ that raised huge. He called off about a third of his stack and flopped a straight to stack both of them, and made it like he made some kinda ingenious play. I thought this was very misleading to someone trying to learn NL tournament poker, because 80% (at least) of the time he would have lost a third of his stack with that horrible call preflop.

Dude, that's why I said don't go overboard with his ideas. But, he is a great player and can afford losing when he takes a gambool. He was also playing during a time when people were really tight and he knew that they had overs. 67 or most suited connectors are great for busting big pp. That's why you will see a lot of people calling 3x raises early in tourneys with suited connectors and small pp and people calling them donks when they hit and bust somebody. It's actually a great play if you have implied odds. You will see a lot of this in rebuys as well by people calling AI's in the first hour. If you don't buy-in to what Doyle is saying and use some of his advice you won't be very successful (IMO). For beginners it is good to note that Doyle will gambool a lot with semi bluffs when he has outs and this may be something that is way over your head but it is a skill that you will need to learn. When you read his book you have to understand that he is playing to win and not afraid to lose.

Sorry for the highjack.