Official SlowHabit Review Thread

Here is a list of people that have received Tri "SlowHabit" Nguyen's The No-Limit Workbook: Exploiting Regulars.

1. RICHI8
2. Night201
3. Lachlan
4. edzwoo
5. PplusAD

My review:

When Tri gave this book to all of us he urged that we write a fair, unbiased review and to not feel pressured to write something positive just because it was given to us for free. After reading the first few chapters I had more poker epiphanies than I can count on two hands. The main concept that this book drives home is hand ranges which is something I think a lot of NL50-NL200 grinders think a little about, but no where near as much as they should.

Tri does an excellent job of putting his thought process into words so that you can easily grasp the information that he presents. He uses examples that you will surely see the next time you play a session. The book is comprised of several chapters explaining the concepts followed by 35 hand histories as examples. Every hand is dissected carefully to explain the correct move in each spot. The thing that makes this book so much better than any poker book I've read is that it is about the games today, not the loose-passive games of 3 years ago. You can't just find a table with you and 5 fish anymore, they don't exist above NL10.

A lot of people have read the other NL books that teach them the basics and that gets them to a TAG style of play. The problem with every other poker book aimed at this level of play is that it only teaches you how to play a TAG style against a bunch of fish, it doesn't teach you how play against other TAG regulars which you inevitably will do every session no matter how well you game select.

The #1 problem I see with a lot of people buying this book is that it doesn't offer a lot on pre-flop play. This book was written with you expecting to know how to play pre-flop and have a decent grasp on poker, this book is solely about destroying regulars post flop. Although I must say, there are a couple hands he goes over that teach you what to do with certain 3-betting hands that blew my mind and made me realize how many mistakes I was making with these hands pre-flop.

My favorite part about the book is that all of the moves and actions he has you do are things you would never think of doing. Why? Because I'm the TAG regular that Tri is teaching me how to exploit. Through this process you learn about how to beat other TAGs and at the same time uncover a lot of your leaks. I've read about 5 other NL poker books and most of them feature the same regurgitated information, this is the first book I've read that is so focused and unique in the information it presents.

The audience that Tri wanted to get out to is the NL50-NL200 crowd which I think this is perfect for. I'll even recommend it for NL25 players and if you play NL25 or NL50 spend the 2-4 buy-ins and pre-order this book for half the cost before it comes out. If you play NL100-NL200 you have to be a moron to not buy this book. If this book doesn't give you countless mental orgasms while reading it then you are either already a pretty good poker player or will remain a hopeless grinder for the rest of your poker career.

Cheap fuckers won't send me a copy (its an e-book, YOU CAN PRINT IT AND STAPLE IT TOGETHER YO!)

yeh how about an official slowhabit distribution thread

lol I should read that just so that I know what every MSNL reg is going to be doing over the next 3 months.

I also got one

bump. Finished reading the book last night and put my review in the original post.

Who is SlowHabit? What is he famous for? Is he just a good solid 1kNL regular or some chump?

and how can u get this book?
price?

On November 13 2009 12:12 Twisted wrote: Who is SlowHabit? What is he famous for? Is he just a good solid 1kNL regular or some chump?

Slowhabit himself I think has had some pretty decent results but yeah I think he's not really very known.

However, he is the co-author of the book "Let There Be Range", which of course is famous because of CTS's input.

I PMed Slowhabit but no response T_T.

The book can be ordered at www.dailyvariance.com (The Workbook).

kingsofcards also co-authored this book.

On November 13 2009 12:13 jantje123 wrote: and how can u get this book? price?

http://dailyvariance.com/the-workbook.html

$97 pre-ordered (pre-order ends in 2 days)
$197 after it's released.

i wonder if i should get this i did plan on trying some cash for a while... but id be starting around 25nl/50nl so worth it for me?

Definitely worth it. I'm a struggling NL50 player and its helped me heaps.

Should do this with his omaha book, for some select, fine individuals of this here site.

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*HINT* *HINT*

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*Nudge* *Nudge*

.......... *wink* *wink*

whos tri nguyen? I never heard his name before, and is he vietnamese?

On November 13 2009 12:12 Twisted wrote: Who is SlowHabit? What is he famous for? Is he just a good solid 1kNL regular or some chump?

yeah i've never heard of him either

AFAIK SlowHabit is one of the old school PartyPoker regs that crushed the games for insane winrates.

I've read his PLO and CTS book, Tri is definitely a good player who knows what he's talking about, and definitely has a v good grasp of game theory. He is limited by his own style though, if anything, which is pretty apparent from the parts he wrote in his CTS book. I'm sure this new small stakes book is really really good though and if I were playing small stakes I'd prob snap buy this without any second thought.

I think at least one review should be done by a NL2k+ reg.

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