Official Erick Lindgren Making the Final Table thread

[benkahuna]

I saw this book at Barnes and Noble yesterday. I read through the first three chapters.

It's written in a casual, friendly manner, not surprising since Erick seems like a pretty friendly guy.

Much of the initial information is targetted toward a complete poker newbie, then a tournament newbie.


Erick preaches a very aggressive strategy and provides problems at the end of every section that build on what he has to say.

So far, text is big, content is somewhat limited and too focused on beginners for my taste, but I'm looking forward to reading more and think the content that is there is decent.


It's the second WPT related book. The Mike Sexton Shuffle Up and Deal book was the first.


Anyone read this book yet? What do people think?

I read through some of it today at Barnes and Noble. There's not much to it I thought. Stick with HOH.

[Aceshigh7]

I think I'll be buying this book.

However, considering Lindgren's consecutive 7th, 1st, and 11th place finishes in the Party Poker Million, I really wish he had written a book on Limit Hold'em tournament play instead of NL.

[ilya]

I was intrigued by his support of the min-raise, as well as his thoughts on playing a borderline-push/fold stack. E.g., he advocates raising to 400-500 with ATo UTG with a 2000 stack & 100/200 blinds...or, if not advocates it, at least prefers it to pushing.
But I've only read about half of it, so no sweeping generalizations yet.