How much would you pay for a Barry G hand problem book?
 

Let's say Barry writes a book consisting of at least 200 pages of just hand problems with detailed analysis of his thought process for every decision. Hands from all of the most popular games will be discussed (LH, NLH, PLH, 7CS, PLO, O8, TD, etc.)

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It seems that most profitable for Barry would be to price the book at $250. 22% of voters are willing to pay that much. It would be interesting to hear what Barry thinks about the results of the poll. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Where's jakethebake? He's got a hand problem book he's always pushing on this forum. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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It seems that most profitable for Barry would be to price the book at $250. 22% of voters are willing to pay that much. It would be interesting to hear what Barry thinks about the results of the poll. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Writing a book is a lot of work. I spent two years, on and off, on the last one. Even my detractors should have been able to notice the effort I put in, insuring that the quality of the production was better than anything before it.

One issue about writing a book of hands is that it slightly goes against my idea that poker is much more than hands. But I'm assuming some of you liked the way I wrote what I was thinking about as I played the hands in Ace on the River, so there is some value there.

I have thought about what hands I would include, and, as in AOTR, they would primarily be hands that I screwed up. There was a five hand meltdown in one round of play at the 2003 WSOP that led to my elimiation on day three. (Some of you will remember that I was the chip leader on day one.) I have only mentioned these hands to close family members. And now you want to pay me to describe what I did wrong. I would almost be more inclined to pay someone so I wouldn't have to expose my incompetence! Fortunately, I wasn't at the hole card table.

Barry

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One issue about writing a book of hands is that it slightly goes against my idea that poker is much more than hands. But I'm assuming some of you liked the way I wrote what I was thinking about as I played the hands in Ace on the River, so there is some value there.

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Yes, that's it. Hands are hands, I play the same hands as you do (less money on the table obviously). But you are a top player because of your thinking process. Theory is important, but I could teach my mom to play winning micro limit poker, I am 100% sure of that. It is "the way of thinking" that is hard to change, to "learn". For me one of the most important things in Harrington's books is because he explains what he thinks when he is in the hand. Now I finally understand what are all those pro's thinking for such a long time. Before that I thought it's "Does he have it or not? Does he have it or not? Does..." [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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I have thought about what hands I would include, and, as in AOTR, they would primarily be hands that I screwed up. There was a five hand meltdown in one round of play at the 2003 WSOP that led to my elimiation on day three. (Some of you will remember that I was the chip leader on day one.) I have only mentioned these hands to close family members. And now you want to pay me to describe what I did wrong. I would almost be more inclined to pay someone so I wouldn't have to expose my incompetence! Fortunately, I wasn't at the hole card table.

[/ QUOTE ] Hehe. Well, everybody screws up sometimes. I saw that many readers of your book were very positive because you included such hands. But they don't have to be only hand like that.
I was always wondering is it -EV for you pro's to actually describe your thinking process. Most of poker authors say it isn't because they change the way they play in certain situations all the time. But even so, every author (including Harrington in his books) can choose not to disclose all details about the hand (as who are the opponents etc.)

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I would love to see something like that. I thoroughly enjoyed AOTR and would really be happy to see a follow-up produced.

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I am one of those who definitely appreciated the effort put into the book. And before I read about it here I had already noticed how interesting it was to read the hands where Barry himself admits to playing it badly.

That was as interesting an aspect of the hand-examples as the actual play of the hands.

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ah....probably the cover price. Thats the only correct answer unless u know a book scalper that could get it to u right off the press.

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22% of people on this forum isnt 22% of people who would buy the book.

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Really?! [img]/images/graemlins/ooo.gif[/img]

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I would pay 200$ if he wrote a book just dealing with the technical side of limit hold'em [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I would pirate it off the internet for free....

if Barry had alot of experience with online NL SNGs,
 

i would rather buy a [hand] book from him on big buy-in SNGs $215 and higher, both on Party's small stack and Pokerstars' bigger stack setup. i love to see hand examples of how he handles certain situations and opponents like LAG-weak, TAG strong/tough, LAG-thinking and tricky, TAG decent, etc.

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I was glad to see an author include hands that he thinks he misplayed. Especially since everyone misplays hands from time to time. I think Rueben Stewart also did in his pot-limit holdem book.

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If this book would make me win 10 million bucks, I'd pay 10k for it, maybe even more [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

If the author is so rich that money doesn't matter anymore, it is also a philosophical question how much he should charge for his book.

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There was a five hand meltdown in one round of play at the 2003 WSOP that led to my elimiation on day three. (Some of you will remember that I was the chip leader on day one.) I have only mentioned these hands to close family members. And now you want to pay me to describe what I did wrong. I would almost be more inclined to pay someone so I wouldn't have to expose my incompetence!
Barry

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This should be crossposted to the Psych forum . . . it's very comforting to hear that no matter how insanely good one is at the game, there are still times that one's play is so bad (relative to how one *should* be playing) that ya just want to crawl in a hole and not come out for several weeks.