I decided to write this review because the glowing 5-star reviews written here are way off base. I suspect their writers are either friends of the author or have not read any other poker books and have nothing to compare this one to. I was tempted to give this book a 1-star rating for balance, but in all fairness it deserves something like 1 3/4.
Anyway. I bought this book because I was bankrolled only for microstakes and the books I had read did not seem to apply at this level.
I was pretty disappointed with the book. First of all it's really more like a pamphlet than a book--at 167 pages it seems solid but the writing is huge. This book is at least twice as short as most poker books (all the ones I've seen anyway, and I've read at least ten). So what was I hoping to get out of this book? I wanted to learn to beat NL10 and NL25. I buy the book and find out the strategies are for NL2 and NL5, the author's "specialties." He says you can apply them to NL10 but I have tried to no avail.
The actual strategy taught is very, very basic, and can be summarized completely in about 10 pages. The rest of the book is filler. The book certainly doesn't teach you how to "crush" any stakes, so the title is a bit of a misnomer. You can beat NL2 and NL5 for a few bb/100 and break even at NL10 with these strategies, which isn't much of an accomplishment at these stakes.
Who is Thomas Mitchell anyway, and why is he qualified to write a book on poker? Glad you asked! Mr. Mitchell provides a graph showing he's a winning player--over 77,000 hands, he's made $225. If that doesn't qualify you to write a book I don't know what does.
Bottom line, will this book help you? Maybe...if you're terrible and want to beat NL2 for 5 bb/100. Otherwise, not so much.