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Message: [QUOTE="Dara OKearney, post: 5134369, member: 390655"] Thank you for your kind words. I have a number of ideas for other books, including one on playing main events. The reason I started with a book on satellites is that ion my opinion/experience, people make far bigger mistakes in them, because the correct strategy is much farther from "normal poker" than in a main event. It's hard to answer the second part of the question without sounding braggy, but I genuinely believe that optimal strategy in satellites is so peculiar it has to be studied as a completely different subject from "normal tournament poker". There is very little good specific content on satellites out there, which is why we saw a need for this book. If you don't believe me, believe Marty Mathis, winner of the year long PPL Leaderboard (and as such the most successful online satellite player in the world over the last year), and also winner of the recent Rio Millions. Marty bought the book as soon as it came out and wrote the following review at Amazon. Note Marty was not a friend of mine at the time, we'd never even met, so this is not just one friend hyping another's book: "[COLOR=#111111]I have just finished Dara's book on Super Satellite Strategy. Let me preface this review by stating I have been grinding satellites as my main focus for 8 months, where I currently sit #1 on the Party Poker PPL leaderboard. I wouldn't consider myself a specialist, there are several people who are much better and experienced than myself, but after months of tedious ICM/FGS calculations, I feel like I had a strong handle on proper strategy prior to reading the book[/COLOR] [COLOR=#111111]My reason for buying this book was simple. Outside of Tom Hall, Dara is widely considered the best in the format. I have the utmost respect for both of them. The thing about satellites is that they are so different from any other form of poker that sometimes the entire lens through which you view poker is shattered into pieces. You can not look at satellites through that same lens. As you gain more experience in satellites through work with software (I recommend icmizer2 and monkersolver), you start to develop a lot of theories you might consider batshit crazy. It makes you question every thing you do. My entire strategy behind satellites has been a sort of "brute force" approach where I simply run thousands of simulations of different game states and ask myself WHY I think the results come out the way they do. This takes countless hours and probably isn't the most efficient way to approach things[/COLOR] [COLOR=#111111]What Dara's book has done is to confirm some of theories I had made myself. The affirmation alone was worth way more than the $10 I paid.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#111111]For those of you with no experience, what you can expect is a solid theoretical foundation to playing satellites backed by hard math. It is simple to follow, but will take practice to implement "Gorilla Maths" in your own game. There is no substitute for doing the work yourself, but Dara has shortened your workload by covering the most common spots you will encounter in a variety of satellite situations. In my opinion the book is of great benefit to a player of any skill level who is looking to play satellites. In the first 30 minutes of reading, I guarantee you will pick up something that will increase your future expectation enough to cover the cost of the book 10 fold.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#111111]-Marty "TJXOLOSFAN1" Mathis"[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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