[Gabe DV]

"Well, it is a 100% copycat job. The author took SSHE, TOP and HEFAP and paraphrased it all together into a new book which has zero new content to offer."

This is simply an unfair allegation. I read Yao's book and while I agree that DIPO seems kind of needless, I think the rest of the book is excellent. The chapter on hand reading alone pays for the price of the book, and the shorthanded material is some of the best information on short-handed play I have read anywhere. Of course a lot of Yao's ideas are rooted in the fundamentals of TOP and HPFAP, but I think that saying he merely paraphrased these works is a gross exaggeration, to say the least.