Table of Contents
. Table of Contents
About Collin Moshman v
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1
Part One: Low-Blind Play 3
. Introduction 4
. Critical Poker Concepts 6
. . Tournament Equity 6
. . Pot Odds 11
. . Chip Expected Value 14
. . The Aggression Principle 16
. Hands to Play During Low Blinds 18
. . Premium Hands 19
. . . Pocket Aces through Queens 19
. . . Ace-King 24
. . . Ace-Queen, Ace-Jack Suited, Jacks Down Through
. . . . Nines 27
. . Speculative Hands 31
. . Late Position Value Hands 35
. Post-Flop Low-Blind Play 40
. . Excellent Flops 40
. . Solid Draws 47
. . Hands Where You Aggress Pre-flop, then Miss the
. . . Flop 52
. . Marginal Hands 53
. Low-Blind Play: Summary 60
Part Two: Mid-Blind Play 61
. Introduction 62
. Hands to Play During Mid Blinds 63
. . Premium Hands 63
. . Speculative Hands 67
. . Blind-Stealing Hands 74
. Steals and Re-Steals 88
. . Distinguishing Steal Raises from Value Raises 88
. . The Re-Steal (RS) 90
. Attacking Passivity and High-Percentage Raising 99
. . High-Blind Limpers (HBLs) 99
. . Multiple High-Blind Limpers 102
. . Bluffing 108
. . Aggressing Post-Flop 112
. Crucial Mid-Blind Concepts 117
. . Independent Chip Model (ICM) 117
. . Defeating Tight-Aggressive Opponents 123
. . Adjusting to Different Stack Sizes: Mid Blind 125
. Mid-Blind Play: Summary 128
Part Three: High-Blind Play 129
. Introduction 130
. High-Blind Strategy 131
. . The Fundamental Theorem of Sit ’n Go High-Blind
. . . Play 131
. . How Not to Get Blinded Out 135
. . High-Blind Re-Steals 139
. . The Ante: Strategic Adjustments 142
. Critical High-Blind Concepts 147
. . Bubble Play 147
. . High-Blind Stack Variation 156
. . The Stop ’n Go 158
. . Implicit Collusion 160
. . Raising All-in Without All Your Chips 164
. . Exploiting Pre-Flop Passivity as the Big Blind 166
. Calling All-ins and Profitable “Passive” Plays 168
. . Calling Short-Stacked All-ins as the Big Blind 168
. . Calling Large Pre-flop All-ins 171
. . Playing the Minuscule Stack (2BB or Fewer) 175
. . When You Should Not Attack High-Blind Passivity 181
. Short-Handed Play 186
. . Limp-Stealing From the Small Blind 186
. . 3-Handed Play 188
. . Heads-Up 192
. Stack-Dependent Strategy on the Bubble 203
. . Player A’s Game Plan 203
. . Player B’s Game Plan 205
. . Player C’s Game Plan 207
. . Player D’s Game Plan 210
. High-Blind Play: Summary 212
Part Four: Sit ’n Go Career Play 213
. Introduction 214
. Sit ’n Go’s Versus Other Forms of Poker 215
. . Differences Between Sit ’n Go’s and Multi-Table
. . . Tournaments 215
. . Differences Between Sit ’n Go’s and No-Limit Cash
. . . Play 217
. . Winner-Take-All One-Tables 218
. Profit-Increasing Skills and Techniques 225
. . Hand Reading Skills 225
. . Showing Hands 228
. . Multi-Tabling 229
. . . Pros 230
. . . Cons 230
. . Software 232
. Sit ’n Go Business Concepts 234
. . Buy-in Differences from $6 to $530 (or More) 234
. . Table Selection 235
. . When to Play (Times of Day) 237
. . Sit ’n Go Business Concepts Summarized 237
. The Psychology of Sit ’n Go Play 240
. . Decision-Making Psychology and its Exploitation 240
. . Always Think About the Next Move 241
Appendix A: What is the Probability of …? 245
. Pair Statistics 245
. Non-Pair Statistics 246
Appendix B: Pushing Tables 247
. 3BB 247
. 5BB 248
. 7BB 249
. 10BB 250
Appendix C: Drawing Odds Chart 253
Appendix D: Pre-flop Hand Probabilities 257
Appendix E: Your Hand Versus a Random Hand 259
Appendix F: Consecutive Hands Starting as the Bubble
. Short Stack 261
Index 275
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