Best way to read SSH

[BugsBunny]

"I've read this, played that, done this and I'm still losing...."

[MicroBob]

A well-timed re-run.
Thanks for digging that up.

[Luv2DriveTT]

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Naked while standing on your head.

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Funny.... i was going to reply saying that, sans nudity.

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Just be careful not to go Super-LAG when you get back to the table by misapplying some of his back-door-outs concepts.

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Essentially Miller teaches us how to look and act like a LAG, but its actually all smoke and mirrors... we are actually playing tight and aggressive. Learn from this lesson! I went LAGgy... I was a solid winning player until I read SSHE, and ever since I've struggled to re-gain my footing. Whats funny is that I am a much better player because of SSHE, I will just attribute my previous play to dumb luck. I know its worth the varience to increase the quality of my game, I don't regret it one bit, and slowly but surely as the tighten aspects of Miller's reccomendations start to sink into my head my game is getting better and better - soon I'll be stronger than I ever was before I started to read the book.

Why you may ask? Its because the concepts presented within were so foreign to my previous playing style that I needed to learn how to loosen my game first.

Thank you Ed... Best book I have read so far!

In da club [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

[bernie]

Once you have a grasp on the weaknesses in your game, go to that section. If their are a few weaknesses, take them one at a time. Who knows, learning how to stop one, will likely have an effect on others. Don't necesarily try to tackle them all at once. Many poker books go street by street. That's a good way of seperating it out.

have fun.

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[TheSheath]

i am also going through it for my first time and am highlighting everything i find is important and worth remembering. at times i highlight whole pages lol. but i do it b/c when i go to re read it i can just go to the highlighted parts and read those and skip some of the wordage. just wat i am doing.

[MicroBob]

I am specifically referring to a handful of posts I have seen that grossly over-value back-door flush 'draws' that aren't really draws at all.

More than once I have seen someone with something like....

6 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 5 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (in SB perhaps)

flop A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

"okay. I have a backdoor straight draw AND a backdoor flush-draw"

Hello?!?!?!
McFly?!?!?!

Back-door flush draw with a single 6 of that suit??


So it goes a bit beyond the typical
"I'm getting overly LAG by chasing when I'm PROBABLY beat."
to
"I'm inventing outs that are almost 100% non-existent."


A couple of players seem to not distinguish between a 6h in your hand and 2 hearts on the flop AND 6h5h in your hand and just 1 heart on the flop (note - the 2nd one is MUCH better and I hope most of you can see that).

[uaw420rook]

Ive been reading it a little each day. My poops are taking longer than normal but I'm playing better.