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Professional No-Limit Holdem: Volume 1 - Question
Any chance you guys can tantalize us with a full Table of Contents? Pretty please with a cherry on top?
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Re: Professional No-Limit Holdem: Volume 1 - Question
Isn't this book coming out the 27th?
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Re: Professional No-Limit Holdem: Volume 1 - Question
I'll ask Mason. I only have the TOC in PDF format.
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Cool, thanks.
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Re: Professional No-Limit Holdem: Volume 1 - Question
Cool, indeed.
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Re: Professional No-Limit Holdem: Volume 1 - Question
Table of Contents
About Matt Flynn vii About Sunny Mehta ix About Ed Miller xi Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 It Depends 5 Part One: The Basics 7 Introduction 8 Odds and Outs 9 . Pot Odds 9 . Outs 10 . Discounted Outs 12 . Outs and Odds 13 . Implied Odds 15 . Putting it Together 17 Bet Sizes 21 Absolute Versus Relative Dollars 21 . Betting the “Pot” 24 . What Size is Best? 25 . Final Thoughts 29 Stack Sizes 31 . The Basics 31 . The Table Stakes Rule 31 . Consequences of the Table Stakes Rule 32 . No-Limit Should Be Called Stack-Limit 33 . Effective Stack Sizes 33 . Stack Sizes and Strategy 34 . Stack Sizes and Hand Descriptions 37 . Short, Medium, and Deep Stacks 37 . Why Do We Care About Short Versus Deep . Stack Sizes? 40 . Summary 42 Part Two: The Fundamentals 45 Introduction 46 Pot Size 48 . Risk Versus Reward 48 . Win Money, Not Pots 50 . Big Pots Versus Small Pots 51 . How To Play a Big Pot 54 . Final Thoughts 54 Commitment 56 Pot Control 65 . The Basics 65 . Some Exceptions 68 . Final Thoughts 72 Position 74 Hand Reading 81 Fundamentals In Practice 85 Part Three: The REM Process 95 Introduction 96 The REM Process — R is for Range of Hands 99 . Know Your Opponents, Observe Their Tendencies 100 . . Preflop Standards 100 . . Betting Patterns or Amounts in Various . . . Situations 101 . . Particular Actions on Specific Streets or with . . Specific Hand Types 101 . . Physical Tells 102 . . Betting Pace 102 . Putting It Together 102 . Reassess 103 . Position and Hand Reading 104 . Summary 105 The REM Process — E is for Equity 107 . Calculating Equity Against a Range of Hands 108 . Shortcuts 110 . Folding Equity 112 . Final Thoughts 115 The REM Process — M is for Maximize 117 . The Effect of Checking 117 . Reasons To Bet or Raise 119 . . Value Betting: When You Want Them In 119 . . Bluffing: When You Want Them Out 122 . . When You’re Not Sure 125 . Folding, Calling, or Raising With Drawing Hands 125 . Final Thoughts 130 REM in Action 131 Part Four: Planning Hands Around Commitment 139 Introduction 140 The Commitment Threshold 142 . The Commitment Threshold 146 . The Commitment Threshold Threat 147 . Timing of the Commitment Threshold 147 . When You Are at the Commitment Threshold and Not . . Committed 149 . Exceptions 152 . When You Are at the Commitment Threshold and . . Committed 153 . Commitment Thresholds in Multiway Pots 155 . More Hand Examples 156 . Exceptions Revisited 157 . Summary 162 Stack-To-Pot Ratios: Introduction 164 . Balancing Risk Versus Reward 164 . A Hand Without A Plan 166 . A Mental Barrier 167 . Replay 168 . Planning For Commitment 170 . Risk Versus Reward Revisited 171 . Defining Stack-to-Pot Ratios 173 . Max SPRs and Target SPRs 175 Playing Top Pair with SPR 179 . SPR Makes Postflop Play Easier 179 . Top Pairs Have Triskaidekaphobia 180 . Two Pot-Sized Bets Is Better 183 . Four Is Often Better Than Three 183 Target SPRs 186 Estimating Target SPRs 188 . Hand Strength 188 . Opponent Tendencies 189 . Target SPRs For Specific Hands Against Different . . Opponents 190 . . Top Pair/Overpair 190 . . Target Practice 191 . . More Target Practice 195 . . When You Can’t Hit Your Target 197 . . Playing With High SPRs 198 . . Drawing Hands 200 . . Drawing Hands Work With Middle or High SPRs 205 . Evaluating Starting Hands 206 . . Overpair Hands 207 . . Top Pair Hands 208 . . Drawing Hands 209 . . Final Thoughts 210 Creating Target SPRs 211 . Some Background On Preflop Raising 211 . Variables Affecting SPRs 213 . A Note on Mixing It Up 219 . Remember Triskaidekaphobia 221 . More Shortcuts 221 . Final Thoughts 222 Target SPR Examples 223 . Final Thoughts 233 Making Adjustments 234 . Multiway Pots 234 . Reraised Pots and Limped Pots 236 . Adjusting to Multiple Different Stack Sizes 238 . Getting Money In Preflop With The Best Hand 239 . Playing with Position 241 . Adjusting to Coordinated Boards 242 . Maximizing Postflop 244 . Adjusting to New Information 246 When SPR Doesn’t Work 249 . Sometimes Your Opponents Don’t Cooperate 249 . Some SPR Strategies Don’t Work With Certain Stack . . Sizes 250 . You Need All-Ins To Happen Sometimes 250 Using SPR to Choose Postflop Betting Lines 252 Betting to Get All-in 255 SPR — Putting It All Together 257 Part Five: Planning in Practice 267 Introduction 268 Planning in Practice 269 . Once Around 269 . Second Orbit 282 . Final Thoughts 292 Conclusion 295 Appendix A: No-Limit Rules and Etiquette 297 . No-Limit Rules 297 . No-Limit Etiquette 302 Appendix B: Odds and Outs 305 Index 307 |
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Re: Professional No-Limit Holdem: Volume 1 - Question
hmmm doesn't look like short handed play is covered at all. when is part 2 due out?
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Re: Professional No-Limit Holdem: Volume 1 - Question
LOL @ Triskaidekaphobia !
50 Sklansky Bucks to anyone who knows what that means! (Not you, Matt.) |
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Re: Professional No-Limit Holdem: Volume 1 - Question
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LOL @ Triskaidekaphobia ! 50 Sklansky Bucks to anyone who knows what that means! [/ QUOTE ] A quick google search gives "An abnormal fear of the number 13". Maybe its a reference to top pair being tricky to play if SPR is 13 or greater? Certainly intriguing... |
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Re: Professional No-Limit Holdem: Volume 1 - Question
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hmmm doesn't look like short handed play is covered at all. when is part 2 due out? [/ QUOTE ] about four months after we finish it. |
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