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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.)