Daugherty/McEvoy No Limit Texas Hold Em

[Dead]

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You don't want to put a lot of chips in before the flop with these middle pairs

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This is good advice. I don't know about the part about a higher set.

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The above advice is not what I griped about.

I griped about the constant fear of set over set that McEvoy/Daugherty allude to.

[pastabatman]

I liked this book when I knew zero about tournament, and needed a quick leg up. I would still recommend it to someone who's never played a tournament before, and never touched a poker book, but to anyone else, any chapter of HOH is worth more than this entire book.

I'd forgotten that silly advice to worry about higher sets, and certainly never followed it. Pretty atrocious. But, I think the high points of the book (tight starting standards, money management, problem hands) balanced it out. Kind of a 'Hold 'Em Tournament for Dummies', if you will. Still, as butt-simple as it is, a lady friend of mine who fancies herself a card shark couldn't get through it. She said, 'too much math', LOL.

Pasta

[istewart]

I completely agree about the Championship Series in general being weak-tight. Cloutier and co's advice is very misleading and generally inapplicable when playing say, a Stars MTT.