The No-Limit Hold'em Workbook: Exploiting Regulars is primarily designed for semi-professional and professional online poker players who are looking to make the move from lower and middle stakes to the bigger games.
Building on ideas first introduced in Let There Be Range (co-authored by Nguyen and Cole South), the Workbook begins by outlining a number of important concepts the understanding of which tends to distinguish "regulars" at these games from those who are able to exploit them. Such concepts include the understanding of hand ranges when assessing opponents' play (and recognizing one's own tendencies); the importance of aggression and learning to be the "pouncer" (that is, the player able to identify and pounce on others' weaknesses); balancing one's play; overbetting; playing small pocket pairs; and river play.
Then comes the "exam" -- 35 "problems" in which these concepts are made concrete. In these problems, Nguyen guides the reader through a series of $3/$6 six-handed no-limit hold'em hands, ably exploring and explaining the many decisions and alternative lines one can take. Taken together with the earlier theoretical discussions, these problems do much more than describe specific circumstances and identify so-called "correct" plays. Rather, The No-Limit Hold'em Workbook: Exploiting Regulars instructs readers how best to think about no-limit hold'em, thereby arming them with multiple, highly-effective tools for dominating the online game.
