Small Stakes No-Limit Hold'em

I guess this makes sense as a single thread?

The footnote on p. 43 says, "offsuit kings, queens, jacks, and ten with at least a nine kicker."   But come to think of it, I'm fairly sure the authors meant ten to be singular because T9o is the only ten, so to speak.   (That's assuming that JTo is not considered an offsuit ten by virtue of being an offsuit jack, etc., i.e. that unpaired preflop hands are classified by the higher card.)

Yeah, I'm a geek but it's helpful in proofreading, eh?

isacsen said:

pp.6 'Acknowledgements'

“Ed would like to thank Elaine, Mom, and Dab.”

Guess that should read 'Dad'?

Woo-hooo…. I get to find an error in Ed Millers new book!

No, you didn't find an error.  Dab (rhymes with mob, not tab) is Edward's childhood nickname for his father which stuck.  I didn't get a nickname, but I guess it's just as well, since I wouldn't want to be called Mab (pronounced Mob) anyway.

LOL

Matt Flynn said:

isacsen said:

pp.6 'Acknowledgements'

“Ed would like to thank Elaine, Mom, and Dab.”

Guess that should read 'Dad'?

Woo-hooo…. I get to find an error in Ed Millers new book!

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Yeah I “found” that one too.  LOL (LittleOldLady, a.k.a. “Mom” in Ed's thanks) has explained it all.  And glad LOL is not Mab — lot of bad connotations with that one across multiple genres, and LOL is delightful.

Eh, Matt, do you perchance have a problem with Queen Mab, famously depicted in Mercutio's incredible speech in Romeo and Juliet:

"O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep;
Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners’ legs,
The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
The traces of the smallest spider’s web,
The collars of the moonshine’s watery beams,
Her whip of cricket’s bone; the lash of film;
Her waggoner a small grey-coated gnat,
Not half so big as a round little worm
Prick’d from the lazy finger of a maid:
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut
Made by the joiner squirrel or an old grub,
Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers.
And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love;
O’er courtiers’ knees, that dream on court’sies straight,
O’er lawyers’ fingers, who straight dream on fees,
O’er ladies ‘ lips, who straight on kisses dream,
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:
Sometime she gallops o’er a courtier’s nose,
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig’s tail
Tickling a parson’s nose as a’ lies asleep,
Then dreams, he of another benefice:
Sometime she driveth o’er a soldier’s neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon
Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,
And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two
And sleeps again. This is that very Mab
That plaits the manes of horses in the night,
And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage:
This is she—"

Sorry for the length, but once an English professor always an English professor.  Anyway Mab is presented both in bono and in malo.  We learn what lawyers dream, but the dreams of physicians are not specified .  In any case, I am bigger than an agate stone and will not be riding across the noses of sleeping poker players, neither with dreams of royal flushes nor of bad beats, so rest easy.

I see that Shyturtle also asked over on 2p2 about the identity of Dab.  Obviously for me 2p2 is read-only, so here is a bit of further information:

The nickname of Dab goes back to when Edward was tinytiny, and we were doing Goldilocks and the Three Bears–Mommy Bear, Daddy Bear, and the just-right Baby Bear.  Somehow Daddy Bear turned into Da'Bear (and that was well before Edward ever heard of Mike Ditka) and thence to Dab, where it has persisted unto this day.

Post edited 4:04 am – June 17, 2009 by jz1014

Page 98, first sentence: “A stack-to-pot ratio, or SPR, is a number that that measures the size of the pot relative to the remaining stacks.” Need to delete a that!