Online No-Limit Texas Hold'em Poker for Beginners

This book gave me an hours worth of reading about poker, and that was good. If I had never played poker, or was one of the complete fish at party, it would probably have helped my game some. But, the little good information that he gives can be had anywhere ("play tight, good starting hands, and bet made hands aggressively") and probably in more depth. On top of this, he makes numerous statements that are FACTUALLY wrong. A pocket pair against a higher pocket pair isn't a "coinflip" because they both have two outs! The higher pair is a 4-1 favorite! The higher pair doesn't HAVE to hit trips to win. It's a "coinflip" against two overcards (where the pair is a slight favorite, if you were wondering). He spends several pages explaining why figuring odds is worthless because "your opponents could have some of your outs." Not only is that stupid, it's potentially damaging to someone who actually listens to what he has to say. Pot odds are never discussed except to ridicule people who use it to explain a call. He never discusses his experience or winnings, but it seems because he has none. He apparently plays 5 dollar tourneys on party, and speaks in awe of someone who was playing in 200 dollar sit 'n gos. The only mention he gives of his results are that he is the "unluckiest poker player alive" and how people draw out flushes on him at least 35% of the time instead of 1-4 like the odds say they should. Finally, he spends a chapter "paraphrasing" another book which is very good and similarly priced, and has some material (his odds charts) that he says came from a specific site, but I would not be suprised to find out is copyright infringement. This guy seems to be where I was before I started actually researching how to play poker well, and I would be highly doubtful that he is even a breakeven career player... even WITH the fish in 5 dollar sit 'n gos at party. How this farce got on Amazon I don't know... but buy anything else.