Re: WPT Suggestion
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I think it would be a cool idea for a book to play through a tournament through the perspective of a player.
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Doesn't "Positively Fifth Street" basically cover this?
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To some degree. However:
a) It really only discusses a handful of hands.
b) The book is about many other things than the author's run the WSOP.
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c) McManus is not a poker expert. While he is obviously at least a decent player, he is not someone who has spent the majority of his life playing and thinking about poker.
I think what the above player is interested in is more like a hand report that covers every interesting hand in a multi-day tournament, with thought processes, from a top-flight tournament player (Cloutier, Helmuth, Lederer, Flack, Ivey, etc.).
I think the reason a top tournament player would choose *not* to do this is fairly obvious. The risks (someone, or rather many people, using this detailed thought process information against him) outweigh the rewards (selling books to, most likely, a fairly niche market of hard-core poker enthusiasts).
Financially, this might make more sense in this era of e-books, where they could make a PDF out of it and their publishing costs would be roughly nil, but if I were a top player, I'd think that was an awful lot of work to go to (while I could be playing, no less) to write a book that at least theoretically substantially decrease my EV.
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