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[QUOTE="Jack Daniels, post: 1055159, member: 1954"]
IMHO I'd say steer clear of it OR take the book with a huge grain of salt and try to understand the general concepts.  The problem is that the more reading and playing I'm doing the more I see that his good bits of info are overshadowed by the gaps in between where things are either wrong or is good info but covered in other pubs.  My biggest issue is that he seems to start a lot of topics but seems to leave various scenarios open without discussion.  He presents the idea and some strategy followed by his goofy slogan then moves on.  It almost seems like he rushed to market to publish the "first" book on razz (which it wasn't) and he could have just spent some more time writing another 50% more pages.
 
And his hand chart on first glance looks pretty cool.  But I'm finding out more and more that it doesn't acct for everything.  It doesn't consider or weight your door card for just one example.  And it is primarily gauged for scoring your hand as a bike-type hand vs the strength it could have as a 6 or 7 low depending on what cards are out.  I know it accts for the dead small cards, but that's only half of it.  And the results of your starting hand analysis are either raise or fold; that's not always true for various reasons.
 
Cliff Notes:  There is some good info in there, but if someone asked me for a recommendation I'd give them Sklansky first and after some experience and discussion have them look into this book when they can better appreciate the good points and pick out the bad.
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