There are a lot of dualities in poker. Some people at live poker are really annoying, yet these are often the people you want to sit with because they play badly. Being a professional player may seem like a great life, and there are a lot of freedoms, but it also comes with a lot of stresses that a "normal" job does not have.
I have long lamented the lack of books, strategy advice, etc about HORSE games and tournaments as their own entity. Of course there are several things to be read on each game individually, but there are few things that discuss the overall strategy of mixed games and tournaments. The meta game, if you will. Most of what I know on that front I have gleaned from personal experience and discussion with other players who know what they are doing on the mixed front.
On the other hand, this lack of ready information is exactly what makes HORSE games so juicy. While NLHE is probably the game that I understand the best, just because I have played far and away more hands of that compared to anything else, my relative skill level relative to my opponents is certainly much higher in HORSE.
Nonetheless, I am really happy to see that Lou Krieger is doing a new weekly HORSE column for PokerNews. The first part is available here. Second is here. I'm definitely looking forward to future columns.
Personally, I know I need improvement on the HORSE tournament front (in the middle of rereading FT's Tournament book in prep for the series). My HORSE cash game is pretty solid.
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