I bought this book at the store to have something to read while my wife shopped and tried on clothes. There's a great deal of information concentrated within its pages. I wish I had begun my poker education with this book a few months ago as it would have answered a lot of my initial questions that I didn't glean from some of the more popular titles. If you want a good, well-rounded, intelligent and inexpensive introduction to poker that's easy to read and understand, you couldn't do much better than this little gem.