>Sklansky is a pariah because of every book he's written other than Theory of Poker I was thinking specifically of his personal life and how it bled into the s

>Sklansky is a pariah because of every book he's written other than Theory of Poker I was thinking specifically of his personal life and how it bled into the strategy forums. For example the whole Brandi debacle, and before that the Sue revelations (remember the pictures with the little girl and the birds?). Many people who read that stuff were so creeped out by it that they discounted Sklansky's strategy talents entirely. So forum people -- who were a sizeable portion, probably a majority, of strategy-conscious online players at the time -- became unlikely to find out that Sklansky wrote at length about 'ranges', creating a gap for someone like Galfond to fill.