i havent played much omaha and i wanted to learn more. what do you guys think of this book, Secrets of Professional Pot-Limit Omaha (Paperback) by Rolf Slotboom.

P.S. i have read the championship series by Cloutier.

See here.

I tend to agree with the criticism on 2+2.

Here's my response from the rgp thread

I'm honestly having trouble getting through it. He spends a lot of
time stating and justifying a simple short-stack strategy.

1. Buy in short.
2. Sit immediately to the right of an overly aggressive player.
3. Limp or make a small raise with premium starting hands, including
   double-suited medium connectors.
4. Re-raise, catching all of the players in the middle.

The idea is to pick up the dead money from the other players and
benefit from the deep stacks knocking each other out late in the hand.

I'm convinced this is a good strategy in the right game, but the
repetition is tedious. There are many, many pages regarding
short-stacked play.

I was pretty excited when I made it to the deep-stack section, where I
learned to look out for short stacks playing premium hands. (I
exaggerate; there's some more. The later streets don't get the
attention they deserve though, imho.)

I'm enjoying (and learning more from) the "classic articles" more, even
the ones I've read before.

> Is this one any good, or are there better books?

I'm not aware of anything comparable. The SS2 chapter and
Ciaffone/Reuben's Pot-limit and No-limit Poker have some good stuff.

I've been critical of the presentation, but it's taught me things about
the game.

I agree with you. I don't have the book but if the book talks more SS strategy than anything else than it should not be called "Professional". In fact it's unprofessional and players who buy in short-stacked usually kill the games because any one who is smarter than a pig will not give them action. When the games become short-handed then they have to go and therefore the games break.

Some players like joelmick and evaFunk at PS always buy in with 20BBs. I suggest no one should ever give them actions, never. Yeah, fck you all short-stacked nits.

Haha, I love this guy, especially for his points 3 and 5.

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