Let There Be Range!: Crushing SSNL/MSNL No-Limit Hold'em Games

by Cole South, Tri Nguyen

Small and midstakes NL makes up the fat majority of online poker cash games, so it’s no surprise that a variety of training aides are focused on that market. LTBR is a focused course on how to beat a limit range that roughly spans 1/2 to 5/10.

Genres: Nonfiction, Games

170 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2008

Reviews

[B. A. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Once you get past the poor production values, the spelling and grammar issues and various other errors, and once you get your head around (or even just skip...) some of the math-heavy parts, this book is a must-read for someone that wants to get past the low-intermediate level of modern NLHE. (If you are at those levels, I suggest my own book "Thinkin' About No-Limit" by the way..sorry!)

While I don't agree with everything presented here, at least if translated from 6-max to full ring live games, there is a lot of gold scattered through this book, and some pretty good examples (could use work in places though) and I like the overall logic and approach they use to present it.

Glad I didn't pay 2 grand or whatever it was, but I suspect that if/when I get back to playing live a few times a week it would quickly pay itself off. I still haven't "used" all of this yet, but am aching to do so as soon as possible at the low-limit games at places like the Mirage or local Indian joints around SoCal, where I know that this info would be extremely useful. Probably wouldn't at higher levels or playing in super-tough online games, but at games like I usually play it sure would.

The biggest problem with much of this advice is that it will increase variance a lot. It is obviously for people who multitable online first of all, so understand that. When you are playing 35-40 hands an hour, it can take a long time to recover from a few shoves gone awry, which this book (and others like it) treat as something you do left-and-right... so there is that consideration...as always, absorb info from many sources, not just one. This info, balanced a little for the games you play with some more traditional advice, is very valuable.

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the turning points in the evolution of the modern style of play, this book was originally priced at nearly $2000 and still sells for nearly $1000.

It can be a little hard to read because of the grammatical errors that come along with early self-publishing, but it's a good read if you're still playing and thinking in the antiquated styles of Brunson, Sklansky, or Hellmuth and need to grow out of it. It's also a good read just for the special place it holds in documenting a game that was changing so fast that most players never saw it happen.

[Timothy · Rating 2 out of 5]

The information was fine and presented reasonably well, but the assumptions made don't hold true at all for fishier games. Very much aimed at spots reg v reg.

[Richard Frani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Changed the nature of the poker landscape upon publication

[Hussain Elius · Rating 1 out of 5]

Extremely technical. Better off reading The Theory of Poker if you are beginner to intermediate player.