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Product Description:
No-limit hold em was once only a tournament game. Cash games were rarely spread in conventional poker rooms, let alone the Internet. All of that changed when the game exploded on television. No-limit cash games started sprouting up at casinos of all types. No-limit hold em is now the most popular form of poker. Tournaments pushed it to the forefront, and a great deal of money can also be won here despite that fact, many players feel frustrated with their results. They win some money, only to lose it all on one botched hand. This book teaches you how to play and think like a professional. It shows how to size your bets, manage the pot, manipulate your opponents, know when to go all-in, and avoid the big mistake. Do you understand critical no-limit concepts like The REM Process, The Commitment Threshold, and Stack-To-Pot Ratios? If not, this is the book for you.

Rating : - Not rocket science but fixed some leaks
This book is mostly about preflop bet sizing. It encourages you not to make standard raises, but to raise or call based on the ideal implied odds for various hands.

Most of the advice is pretty obvious. Look to play with a lot of money behind with drawing hands, and look to play with less relative to the pot with "big" hands like AA, QQ or AK. If this sounds obvious you don't really need this book. Still, they put some numbers to these concepts and provide a framework for thinking about this principle systematically, which is in itself useful.

The biggest problem with the book is that it doesn't give much guidance on postflop play (this is left to Vol. 2). But the sense I have is that the authors are assuming best case scenarios too often: they assume things will generally go right after you size your preflop bets. A lot of the book is devoted to making your postflop decisions easier by correctly sizing your raises preflop, but this often depends on a host of assumptions that don't really play out in practice, like getting a pot bet called on every street with the best hand.
Overall, an excellent book if you're one of those dummies that get themselves committed with T9s preflop, but for an experienced player that pays attention to stack sizes, not a great help.