No-Limit Texas Hold'em : The New Player's Guide

For experienced limit players who want to play no-limit or rookies who has never played before, two world champions give readers a crash course in how to play poker's hottest game and join the elite ranks of million-dollar, no-limit hold'em tournament winners and cash game players. Readers learn the winning principles and four major skills: how to evaluate the strength of a hand, determine how much to bet, how to understand how opponents play, and how to bluff and when to do it. The authors, who have won millions of dollars, provide tons of practical examples, a betting chart for tournament play and the key strategies to beat online no-limit hold'em cash games. If you are anywhere beyond beginner, this book will be of very little use to you. I am by no means an expert, but I found most of the information contained in the book to be very basic. I also think some of the advice is terrible. Example (p. 182): it's fairly early in the tournament and you have plenty of chips; you call a small raise from a very loose and aggressive player preflop with AKs; flop brings 66Q, two of your suit and the aggressive player bets roughly the size of the pot. The book's advice in this spot? "With the nut flush draw and two over cards you have a very big hand." Go all in! Or, as an alternative "smooth call" to try to keep another player in the pot. I have nowhere near the qualifications of the authors, but I can not fathom why anyone would want to put a ton of chips at risk at this point in a tourney with a hand that is, at best, a little behind and, at worst, completely dominated. I know there aren't a lot of no limit books out there, but there must be some better than this.