Miller's Book Is Out, But He Hasn't Seen It

Why doesn't Ed Miller have a copy of his own book yet? He wrote,

"Professional No-Limit Hold ‘em: Volume I is finally printed and available for buying! I haven’t seen a flesh-and-blood copy yet, but I will soon, and I’m excited."

Just guessing, but Ed probably doesn't have a copy because Mason Malmuth, Miller's publisher, is acting like a little baby and is has a grudge against Miller and his wife, Elaine, who disagrees with the sexism and pornography on the Two Plus Two poker forums.

I wonder if Miller will have to buy his own copy at the bookstore.

But some readers say they've seen it and there's a thread on Two Plus Two already reviewing it. Comments in the thread include:

"I've read through the Basics chapters and have to say I am impressed so far. It is concise enough not to be a chore and still contains a lot of good information. I have high hopes for the rest of the book..."

"A lot of the information in this book has not been seen in such a user friendly format in any of the bazillion poker books I have read. This is a very high quality book with critical concepts for mastering 'stack limit' holdem I can already give this book a wayyyyyyyyyy thumbs up and I still have half left to read."

"I really did learn a ton from the second half of the book, which will hopefully make me lots of money in the future."

"This book will do a good job of helping to turn marginal players into successful ones. The ideas presented of REM, commitment, and stack to pot ratios do an excellent job of describing how to eliminate some huge flaws I have seen in other players. As a mid limit pro, I was already aware of these concepts in a vague form, but as described they really helped me understand them in theory and practice."

However, most of the discussion isn't about the book content. Instead, it's about how the back cover misspells Portuguese as "Portugeses." This, sadly, is par for the course at the Two Plus Two forums where the signal to noise ratio is low. This fan thinks that the amount of good poker strategy on those forums is far outweighed by the gossip and bad poker strategy.

Mason Malmuth apologized for the mistake and admitted the same mistake was made on three other TwoPlusTwo books. Another typo can be found as well: "Two Plus Two" was written as "Two Plus two."

Rumor has it the mistakes are due to Two Plus Two's use of a substandard magazine printer rather than a book printer to print the books. This explains why the books use a thicker than standard paper and why the books are said to "fall apart." But regardless of the book publishing process, the content speaks for itself.