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I hope everyone is having a great holiday season.  I haven’t posted anything with vacations and family but I have read a book I though I would post. I recently came across the book The Frugal Gambler by Jean Scott.  Being a bonus chasing, rakeback loving cheapskate, I had to know if I could learn anything from [...]

  Phil has written a quality poker book, but he tried to do a lot with it and the very first part that suffered was his coverage of position in the Hold’em section.  When you try to cover 6 different poker games, from set-up and blinds to intermediate and advanced theories including the pot limit, no limit and [...]

This is the first book I read when I began to play online poker.  I understood poker, but I had never played anything more then a kitchen table game.  So I understood how to play poker in general but I knew nothing about what was good for Texas Hold’em.  Winning Low-Limit Hold’em showed me what starting [...]