The Poker Blueprint by Tri (slowhabit) Nguyen and Aaron Davis

My One Minute Recommendation- The Poker Blueprint gets an 8.5/10 for content but a 5/10 for presentation. It contains plenty of great material for players who need help beating smaller stakes online short-handed games, but I fear the often terse, jargon-laden explanations will be too confusing or overwhelming for many players who would otherwise benefit greatly from reading it.



Had Tri Nguyen and Aaron Davis published their e-book The Poker Blueprint several years ago, I would have recommended it in the strongest possible terms. It’s reminiscent of the Cardrunners videos of that era: an opportunity to peer into the mind of a great player but with no real effort at teaching rather than simply reciting information. The information is valuable, no doubt, but processing and making use of it will require a lot of work on the part of the reader. In this day and age, the same material is available in more user-friendly books and videos, so while the content of The Poker Blueprint is easily good enough to warrant the $47 price tag, I can’t offer a whole-hearted endorsement.



The Poker Blueprint is one of the nicer looking e-books that I’ve seen. It is well-laid out, with good use of headers, footers, colors, card images, boxed text, and other touches that give it a professional look and welcoming, readable feel. One thing I miss from Nguyen’s PLO book are the sidebars he used to great effect. Basically, though, it feels more like reading an electronic version of a textbook than a Word document, which is welcome.