Comments on: Book Review: Secrets of Short-handed Pot-Limit Omaha

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:50:11 +0000

For those who don't know Mr Grundy: Ben in the well on 2+2

And here is one of his articles (Betfair.com)

By: sam

sam — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:27:48 +0000

The one guy I’d love to write a plo book would be ben grundy, but I doubt we’ll ever have that pleasure. He wrote a few excellent articles about bluffing in plo for card player a while back.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:54:29 +0000

I have only taken a quick look at the 2+2 book, but it does not seem to break much ground. I will probably review it in two weeks or so.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:55:36 +0000

Yeah, I mean I found hwang's first book very useful, the analysis of straight draws and stuff was all technically very good, and the stuff on plo8 was excellent. But slotboom's first book was rubbish, he never seems to play past the turn, and even then only to put his last few $ in. I don't doubt he's a winning player, but it's not really a style I would want to play.

Having read hwang's advice on floating on cardplayer, it doubtless has it's uses in some situations, but it seems to sit poorly with the reality of today's aggro online 6max games. The same goes for small ball, as 100bb isn't really deep enough for it to be worthwhile a lot of the time.

I'll be interested to see what the 2+2 book is like, too. It's odd, though, because it seems that the advice posted in training vids and the advice meted out in the hardcopy books are coming from rather different places.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:42:18 +0000

Well, both have their strengths and their shortcomings.

Rolf obviously played the online 6max games, and he can back up his thoughts with his experience. He has a honest approach, and does not "hold back". He says quite a few interesting things, too. Unfortunately, his style is pretty unconventional and he often keeps a short stack bias.

Hwang's latest book (I will review it soon) appears less in touch with today's online 6max games; the author seems to have some experience in live games, but his thoughts on floating (in the first part of the book) look more like a basic exploitation of bad opponents than a well-thought analysis, like, he tried it and found it cool and effective in his games. Same for his small ball thing. However, he also discusses some important concepts, too.

In both cases, you get food for thought, but I would not really advocate playing like the authors. Gotta read them with you critical mind.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:57:41 +0000

This doesn’t sound much good, really. I got rolf’s last book, but I must admit that I don’t really like his style of play, since I really don’t think I could get it to work for me. he does make some odd moves, and he never seems to analyse stacks much deeper than 100bb, which can quite easily occur at wild tables. Which would you recommend more between this and hwang’s new book?