I read Sklansy's tournament book yesterday. Today I went back and read some of the parts again (how sad that I read the whole book the day I get it and then read it again the next day, considering that I never read more than 2 chapters of my text books the entire semester when I was in college.)
Anyhow, while I agree with him on a lot of the material, I came to the hand quiz part and I think he must have been huffing paint or something when he came up with hand #33. Here is the scenerio he presents.
"It is the middle of a LIMIT holdem tournament. No one is on a short stack. Three people limp in and you call in the SB with Td9d.
FLOP Ad 7h 6s
Should you come out betting?
The next situation he presents is similar where you have Td9d in the big blind an EP raiser with 3 calls in front of you and you call from the BB.
same Flop Ad 7h 6s
Should you bet?
The way Slansky does things, I think he would suggest a bet. He is obsessed with the idea of always reacting to potential pot odds, and eventual winning %.
I think he would bet because he expects someone behind him to raise, knocking out the other 2 players, increasing both the odds he gets for his money, AND his winning %.
Then again I've read Slansky where he says to fold A10 With an Axx flop without even checking, if there are 5 people in the pot and you have to act first.
But I think in this case, since you are on a draw, he would suggest a bet, expecting a raise behind you. That's my guess.
I've read three of sklanky's books as well as super system and some others that dont even deserve to be mentioned and my personal opinion is that while you can definetly learn from all of the books written about "hold-em" the reality is that you learn by doing. "Repitition is the mother of skill". I learned that at my first job and it still is true today 12 years later. You may not know me and may think who the hell am I but I have been playing and winning online and in live games for about two years now. I have found that my ability to win is based on actual play at tables and not from reading.
My point is regardless of what book you read or what style you practice, poker especially hold em is a basic game. If you have the natural ability of being half mathmatician and half hustler you can be a great player, if you dont have those skillz quit now or it will be a painful life for you, at least as far as hold-em concearned.
