Wednesday July 27, 2005

Ace on the River

Ace on the River by Barry Greenstein is an amazingly cool poker book. Its a strange but well coordinated mish-mash of stories about Barry's poker career together with a lot of very straight up comments on the poker community. In some ways the subtitle ("And Advanced Poker Guide") is likely to lead many astray and many others to take their game to another level. I only have a specific comment on one section (below) but the overall comment I would make is to be sure that you don't overlook all of the great material at the beginning of the book just to read the hand examples. Both are great. Read it all. Many times.

Chapter 23 has a great pro/con list on how much to buyin to a game. Many other authors (esp. ones writing about big bet) just say "cover'em" without any explanation of why. But this isn't always correct as Barry's lists show. ( Jul 27 2005, 02:59:01 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]

polyphasic letdown I didn't last a week sleeping the uberman sleep schedule. When I was just about to get into the right sleep phase I would end up missing a wakeup and resetting my body clock. The next two weekends make this experiment impractical but after that I'll have to try it again. ( Jul 27 2005, 02:55:55 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]