A solid introduction to PLO8
With the supremacy of No-Limit Hold’em, other poker variants are often confined to groups of enthusiasts or “old hands” who started playing poker long before the 2003’s boom. Unsurprisingly, most of the poker literature is devoted to NLHE, and the resource for other games remains scarce. Omaha8 is no exception, and even though Pot-Limit Omaha has caught some attention recently, its Hi-Lo cousin is still largely ignored.
The game has many assets though: there is a lot of skill to it, it is pretty fun to play (in its Pot-Limit form, at least), and above all, most people have no clue how to play. There is some good money to make in these games, and that’s what Dan Deppen helps his readers do with his book, Pot Limit Omaha8 Revealed.
The book is 190 pages, and as its title indicates, it only deals with the Pot-Limit form of the game. This is already a good point, since Omaha8 is generally relegated to the last chapters of Omaha books, and they contain only a few lines on the differences between the Limit and the Pot-Limit variants.
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The best way to beat small stakes
Up to now, most ebooks targeted the upper intermediate player who could not find up-to-date, practical and reliable material in the literature from experienced, winning players for their online game of choice. These ebooks typically cost the equivalent of several hours of coaching, and most small stakes players could not afford them. Yet, there clearly was a demand from the serious small stakes players aspiring to move up the limits.
The affordable ebook
Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em precisely aims at fulfilling this demand: a book dedicated to online NLHE 6max games up to NL200, with a comparatively affordable $100 price tag.
The three authors, Matt Flynn, Sunny Mehta and Ed Miller already wrote a book together in 2007, Professional No-Limit Hold’em Vol. I, that has been fairly well received. Ed also co-authored two books with David Sklansky, NLHE Theory and Practice and Small Stakes Hold’em, Winning Big With Expert Play, in addition to his first book, Getting started in Hold’em published in 2005. They are experienced writers, and it shows in their work.
The book is about 300 pages, divided into four parts. Part I describes the general framework for hand analyses (12 pages). Part II, Beating Online $1-$2 6-max Games is the bulk of the book, with 160 pages. Part III gives “seven steps to no-limit Hold’em”: it is about 30 pages, and as its title suggests, it offers seven important tips and recommendations to develop and maintain a winning style. Part IV deals with somewhat more advanced concepts that will be useful to the players moving up to the midstakes.
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But will soon be floating again like a butterfly
I’ve been quite busy lately, too much for my own taste actually. I’ll have more time as from mid-July, and there are several things I’ll blog about.
For one, I just finished latest Ed Miller, Sunny Mehta, and Matt Flynn’s ebook, Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em, and it is fairly good. I’ll write a full review soon, but I can already recommend it to all players from NL10 to NL100. It is about 300 pages, and at $100 the bang for the buck is quite interesting. You can get it from the book’s website.
TTYL
