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Here's my review for the SlowHabit/CTS ebook...
Presentation/looks:
The Ebook is very well presented and looks very professional. The book features colored figures, charts and examples, we can see that lots of worked as gone into it. However, english isin't my first language but I was able to noticed multiple typos/errors during my first read. Apparently that will be addressed in the upcoming edition but I was a little disapointed about that. It does not however affect any explanations or examples. There are also two missing figures/examples in the book which is unfortunate, I believed that will be addressed in the upcoming version however. Another thing I found a bit irritating is it's hard to discern who's writing what. Basically I know some segments are written by CTS while other by SlowHabit but it's sometime hard to discern who wrote what. This does not really affect the read or the presentation but I would of liked to have known who wrote every paragraph. As for the copyright protection... well basically it really limits your usage which is unfortunate but understandable. Like mentionned you can't print any of the 80 pages and are forced to read them on one single machine.
Content:
To be honest I really did not know what to expect from an ebook tagged at that price. I guess if you're looking for a magic book, basically something that will instantly change the way you see poker after a first read, you may be a bit disapointed with your purshase. This does not mean the book is bad and nothing new, quite on the contrary, this books simply layed out new grounds for me to work on. While not being an outrageoulsy theoretical book, it made me question my lines, my strategy and general approach to poker. Basically it sort of opened my eyes to other possible options and variables to consider and it will help me make better poker decision. I really don't like how this sounds, but I think in order to get the full value of the book I'll really need to work hard on my game and general undestanding of poker.
Fortunately enough, I was already a student of Tri so we had covered some of the material in there. I had already implemented some new elements to my game. I feel this book is going to cover lots of loose ends and help me understand the why behind lots of decision I'm making. A bit more on topic, while covering some pre-flop content (mostly about countering the light reraisers), the book mainly focuses on post-flop play. Basically exploiting opponents using various lines. It gives strong examples for every topics it explains while using good logic/math to demonstrate the why behind there decisions.
Final thoughts:
Is it worth 1.8k? This is a tough question to answer. For the stakes that I'm playing right now, I don't think it will triple my winrate. What it will do is help me move up stakes much faster and for that reason I'd say it will be well worth the cost. Would this book revolutionize the low/mid stake games? Well if everyone that read it worked on there game, for sure the games would instantly become much much tougher. Any player that incorporates the concepts explained in this book will become a very tough opponent to play against imo. On the other hand, there's already lots of sound information that's free and people don't take it. Would I recommend this book? This is a sort of funny question to answer. For one part I'd be really happy if players playing my stakes would not have access to this information yet I'd have a hard time recommending it to a friend. I guess the fact is in order to benefit from this book you will need to put lot's of work into your game. It's not a book that will instantly change a bad player into a phenomenal player! Hard work and this book probably will however!
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