Poker authors suck ass

As someone who spends a lot of time teaching people theories and concepts about poker, I make it a point to read as much poker literature as possible. I recently picked up No Limit Hold'Em Theory and Practice and I have to say it's the most convoluted piece of crap I've ever read.

Now don't get me wrong... the material in the book is excellent. There's just one problem. It was written for an analytical geeks. It's not easy to read. It's not easy to understand... and I imagine about 3/4th's of the people that read it don't have a fucking clue what they just read. Here's an example for you:

"If he gets there with a nine, which will happen 3/5 of the time he improves, you have eight outs (three aces, two queens, and three treys). If he gets there with an eight, then you have only the two queens. So even if he gets there on the turn, you'll draw out on the river 12.7 percent of the time.

.127=(3/5)(8/44)+(2/5)(2/44)

So, on average, when he gets there on the turn and all the money goes in, he'll win $900 87.3 percent of the time and he'll lose $800 12.7 percent. His expected win in that circumstance is $684.10.

$684.10=(.873)($900)-(.127)($800)"

Is math important in poker? Sure. But too mcuh math is going to take away from the fundamentals that are the overriding keys in big bet poker. Besides, who the fuck really understands what you just read? Or more importantly, cares about what they just read? To me, the important part of poker is learning concepts. How do you do this? By applying them in every possible situation you can imagine and figuring out what works and what doesn't work. If it works, why did it? If it didn't, why didn't it? This is the key to learning poker. Figuring out the EV of a particular situation if a particular card comes... is for people who go around chasing and backing 25 year olds just on the off chance they might fuck them (i.e. Sklansky). TPFAP was a good book but I gotta say most of Sklansky's other books (and Two Plus Two's for that matters) are overcomplicated, look how smart I am, pieces of trash.

You're better off learning on your own. Or reading Harrington. Maybe I'll write a book one of these days, I'm about 1,000% sure it'd be better then NLHE Theory and Practice.

/end rant