[chaz64]

I just finished it recently. I would say that, yes, if you have read SSH already you will not find much new in the first third of the book or so. That does not make it a bad book. If someone read WLLH and then read Ed's GSIH and he said "Not a good book, not much new in here" many here would likely not take that too well, and they shouldn't. Just because a book doesn't plow new ground for you doesn't make it a bad book.

That said, I would agree that I did not find DIPO to be useful. However there were sections in the book that IIRC covers ground that SSH did not - or at least covered them in a way that it got a point across to me that I didn't get when reading SSH. Namely:

Starting hands change value: When T9s is better than ATo when in the BB facing a raise, and when it is not.

The chapter on Hand Reading was very helpful to me; and the two on Short Handed Play, I thought were great material for anyone playing 6-max, which is all I've played for months now.

King, thanks for helping me be a better player.