Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em

I completely agree with you and feel that there should be a private area for those who purchased the book to discuss different topics.

A good idea – but I wonder how you would decide who to let in?

You see, when I ordered my copy of the book I used the name that the bank stamped on my credit card, and while I apologies if my subtle decepetion shocks, it doesn't quite match the name that I have chosen here.

Just a thought!

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@UglyGrump Well, I think registration could be based on Email-Addresses

I certainly used a different email address for book purchase and my forum account here. With anyting that has to do with money transactions I tend to use true name and details where possible as I expect (perhaps naively) that this information 1) is protected and 2) may be necessary to check against to have funds released. On forums and similar where there are no such protections or need for information to be linked to my person I deliberately never use my "true" information.

I honestly don't see the need for a private forum. The authors can curtail massive copy/pasting and I don't think anything is as good publicity as spirited discussion. It proves beyond any opinion or review that reading the book has made people think!

There is a risk that discussions can become so exhaustive that there is the same or more content to be found in the forum discussion as there is in the book. This is honestly not a problem. Any serious poker forum already has all the content of this book (and more) – just spread out over thousands of topics and intermingled with a lot of ignorant and wrong information as well.

The value of the book is in the authoring, editing and publishing process. If things have gone well (and I think they probably have) the book will contain very few sections of no content, very few mistakes and very few misapplied principles. It will serve as a go-to reference for things that are true. If you spend 20 times as much time on a poker forum as you would reading the book you MIGHT learn the same amount. You might learn more, you might learn less and you might learn some things that are wrong. A book like this has value both because it is an efficient way to learn, but more importantly because it doesn't lead you down the wrong path. (Assuming this is true)

Ultimately – the more content this forum sees, the worse the signal-to-noise ratio becomes here as well. The book is all signal.