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A waste of paper? I was really looking forward to this book, but it was quite a let down. A great deal of the book is just filler and hype for Mike Caro's and Doyle Brunson's poker sites. The strategy chapters do not start until page 210. The first section is Jennifer Harman's Limit Hold'em chapters. This chapter suffers the same problems that most of the strategy chapters do. It assumes the player is familar with the game, so it doesn't get into much detail, but it also never gets into much depth. All chapters are aimed at high-stakes player. (50/100 PLO with a $100,000 cap anyone?). The Omaha 8/b chapter is passible, the PLO chapter is horrible as is Doyle's NL and tournament sections. He gives advice, such as playing Q6 because you can flop a double belly-buster draw to it, nevemind you will only flop the DRAW .3% of the time. He also did not update his chapter for the use of blinds instead of antes. The stand-out chapters of the book are Todd Brunson's Stud 8/b section and Daniel Negraneanu's 2-7 triple draw. Both chapters go into a surprising amount of detail from starting hands to the final street or deal of play for the space they are given.