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This is the second part of my Setting Effective New Year’s Resolutions for Poker Success series. You can see Part 1 here.

Goal 2: Publish the Book

I have a solid draft and some very good feedback. Now it’s time to revise, figure out what I’m doing with regard to publishing, and get it out there. Easier said than done.

Send Sample Chapter to Publishers

I am leaning towards a small-release, self-published e-book, but I figure I should at least ask around with some publishers and see what they have to offer. This will require polishing a sample chapter and putting together some other material for them. I’d like to have this finished well before the end of February, but if I don’t, I’ll start cutting back on poker playing to get it done.

Make a Decision About Publishing

I don’t know how long it will take to hear back from and negotiate with publishers, which is why I want to get a sample out the door soon. Hopefully I’ll be in a position to make a decision one way or the other by the end of May and then start executing.

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The Harrington on Hold ‘Em series introduced important but largely unknown concepts to a wide audience and fundamentally changed the way tournament poker was played. The Harrington on Cash Games series may have helped some people get started in no-limit hold ‘em (NLHE) cash games, but it fell far short of the bar set by its predecessor. In particular, many online cash game players felt that the book didn’t speak to the aggressive, short-handed games in which they play.

When 2+2 Publishing announced Harrington on Online Cash Games (HOCG), a book meant to address specifically 6-handed online NLHE games, there was understandable skepticism. Harrington’s refusal to disclose the screenames under which he plays, and thus his results in online cash games, led some to question whether he was even qualified to write such a book.

Personally, I can understand the desire to see his results, but I believe that a good book is a good book. If his arguments, reasoning, and math are sound, then his results are not terribly important.

That said, it would be hard to come away from HOCG convinced that authors Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie are inexperienced at online play. Their book is an excellent introduction to the games, covering not only strategy but also important aspects of the online game such as site selection, rakeback, and using Heads-Up Display (HUD).  Read the complete post...

A third of the year is officially behind us. Am I 1/3 of the way to achieving my Yearly Resolutions?

OK, so I am comfortably settled into this huge house on the Maine coast  and will be here for the rest of the month.Off-season extended rentals FTW- it’s too cold to get in the water and most of downtown is closed, but that just makes it a better writer’s retreat, am I right? I’ve got about 80% of a poker strategy book outlined and half of the first chapter written.

Here’s where you come in, target audience: what do you want to see in Foucault on Poker (other than a better title?) Without revealing too much at this nascent stage, I’ll say that this not going to be a catch-all book. There are plenty of those on the market, most of them suck, and doing it right would take thousands of pages and hours.

I want to focus on ten discrete topics, big picture stuff that tends to trip up or hold back players from being successful at small- and mid-stakes cash games. I’ve got my own ideas, but I don’t have ten yet, and in any event I want to know which topics you would like to see covered.

So… comment away!