start with low-limit poker
I just started reading this college-feel textbook. I don't even know how to summarize it yet other than the fact that I now have more desire to play more poker and do the assignments listed in the book. It has a wealth of advanced diagrams, figures, tables, scenarios, assignments, and a hell-a-lot of solid words that wreak of poker empowerment.
Swayne first starts off emphasizing that you gotta know low-stakes limit play if you want to become a world-class high limit and no limit cash game player and eventually a no limit deep-stack tournament pro. Playing low-limit helps you with mostly math and some psychology so you're better prepared for the deeply psychological game that higher stakes Hold 'Em requires. Professionals know how to play post-flop. This is where making the living off poker begins, and I couldn't agree more with the notion of playing limit again to improve my post-flop psychology. A player's intentions are more likely to be revealed in limit play, which you are less likely to see and learn from in a no-limit game (my 2cents).
This book is a journey... A journey to the deepest and darkest ranks that any poker player could aspire to get lost in...
First Assignment:
play 250,000 limit hands (I will do micro/penny stakes rather than the recommended play money, and a hell-a-lot of multi-tabling ;-)
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