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Bought the book to read on a flight today. I am about 60 pages into it, but I like this book. It is the antithesis of Kill Bill. So far, it describes exactly the way I have successfully played deep stack live tourneys.

If you are going to play small ball, you have to play a lot of pots early when the blinds are small, the stacks are deep, and the bad players still have chips. It is these (usually) overly tight players who will continually commit too much money early in the tourney on one-pair hands. You can't get their chips unless you play with them. And once you show down a funky winner cracking AA or AK - the table is yours.

So far, this book describes how to play small ball to a T. It advocates far looser preflop raising standards than HOH or Gordon, both of which IMO are "tight" for early tourney deep stack play.

Can't wait to finish it.