New Tysen Streib Book: Kill Everyone

[Professionalpoker]

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T, what will be the quickest way to get a hold of this, through HP?

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Probably a safe bet

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I can think of one supplier that will have it within a day of HP and they participate in the forums! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[MASTERHOLMES]

hail.

i noticed amazon moved the date to sept 30 instead of next year..
yay.

i want an advanced review as quick as possible please when it comes out,
(so i will know if it is better then kill phil, or at least just as good).

[Professionalpoker]

Just spoke to the publisher and scored a cover photo and back cover text. I am told we are about 4 weeks away.
Linky

[JJay1231]

how long does it usually take for PP to deliver to Australia?

[Adman]

They are VERY fast. I've ordered a few things from them. Faster than Amazon that's for sure.

[TheDna]

damn the capters sound good will get this one so much to read atm ..

[trojanrabbit]

It looks like Lee posted a more detailed TOC over at the Kill Phil site, so I guess I can post that here too. The page numbers refer to the manuscript, the book itself has 348 pages.

Introduction 1

<u>Part 1: Early Stage Play 4</u>
Chapter 1: Accumulating Chips 5
Play a lot of Speculative Hands Early 8
Playing Tight Early to Establish an Image 9
The Big Move 9
Know the Odds 10
Fold Equity 12
Fear Equity 14
Winning a lot of Small Pots 16
Winning a Few Big Pots 17
The Threat of the Set 20
Bet Sizing of Bluffs and Monsters 23
Optimal Bet/Bluff Sizing 25
The Scandinavian Mini-Raise Bluff 27
The Blocking Bet 29
Making Big Laydowns 30
Chapter 2: Specific Guidelines for Accumulating Chips 33
Ten Pointers for Building Your Stack 33


<u>Part 2: End Game Strategy 43</u>
Introduction 44
Chapter 3: Basic Endgame Concepts 45
Looking at Your Stack: CPR and CSI 45
Changing Your Play with CSI 46
Playing the Normal Stage 49
Playing the Semi-Aggressive Stage 49
Playing the Aggressive Stage 50
Playing the Move-in Stage 53
Playing the Special Stage 54
Differences in Hand Values For Raising Versus Calling 56
Chapter 4: Equilibrium Plays 59
Equilibrium Plays: A Word About the Math 59
An Introduction to Equilibrium Play 60
Equilibrium Play: Moving in Far From the Money 65
Using the Equilibrium Solution in Practice: The Power Number 67
When Your Opponents Don’t Play Optimally 69
Chapter 5: Kill Phil: The Next Generation 70
Long Ball vs. Small Ball 70
Big Pushes on the Flop 72
Chapter 6: Prize Pools and Equities 76
How the Prize Structure Affects Your Decisions 76
Calculating Prize Pool EV 78
Do I Really Need to Worry About This Non-Linearity? 81
Is It Getting Bubbly In Here? 82
Bubble Factors in SNG’s 84
How the Hell Am I Supposed to Calculate These Factors? 86
Bubble Factors in Super Satellites 91
Bubble Factors in MTT’s 92
Bubble Factors: Putting It All Together 95
Calling All-In Raises 100
Calling with Pocket Deuces 104
Chapter 7: Specific Strategies for Different Tournament Types 105
Introduction 105
Specific Strategies for SNG’s: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bubble 107
Bubble Play in SNG’s 108
Equilibrium Steals From the Button on the Bubble 109
Exploitive Steals From the Button on the Bubble 112
How Often Do Players Raise? 115
Advanced SNG Tactic: Keeping the Small Stack Alive 116
Specific Strategies for Multi-Table Tournaments: Predators vs. Prey 116
Multi-Table Tournaments: the Final Table 119
Specific Strategies for Super Satellites: How to Fold Your Way Into Easy Money 120
Chapter 8: Short-Handed and Heads-up Play 125
Short-Handed Play with Deeper Stacks 125
Heads-Up Play 128
Heads-Up For the Move-in Stage 129
What About Raises Smaller Than All-in? 132
Heads-Up With Deeper Stacks 136
Chapter 9: Detailed Analysis of a Professional SNG 141
The Full Tilt Monte Carlo Invitational 141
Monte Carlo Invitational: Summary 163

<u>Part 3: Other Topics 164</u>
Chapter 10: Adjustments to Recent Changes in No-limit Hold’Em Tournaments 165
Steal from Under-the-Gun (UTG) 165
Be Prepared to Sometimes Re-re-Steal 165
The UTG Limp/Re-raise 166
Limping with Big Hands When Short-stacked 169
Check/Raise Semi-Bluff on the Turn 169
Picking Off Continuation Bets 170
Sizing Bets to Put Your Opponent’s Stack at Risk 171
Using Bet Sizing to Deprive Players of Fold Equity 172
Chapter 11: Tournament Luck 173
Chapter 12: Playing Against Better Players 176
Kill Phil Style 176
Countering Aggression with Aggression 177
Keep Fold Equity on Your Side 180
Have the Courage of Your Convictions 181
Playing Against “Hyper-LAGs” 185
Defending Against the Hyper-LAG 186
Chapter 13: Tells and Reads 189
Chip Tells 189
All-in Tells 192
Physical Tells 196
Reverse Tells 198
Moves to Induce a Call or Fold 199
Chapter 14: Tournament Preparation
Overcoming Jet Lag 202
Diet and Supplements for Cognitive Enhancement 204
Zen and Poker 206
I-Pod or Not? 207


<u>Part 4: Online Short-handed No-limit Hold’em cash Games 210</u>
Chapter 15: Online Short-handed No-limit Hold’em Cash Games 211
Introduction 211
Pre-flop 212
The Flop 219
Turn Play 222
River Play 225
Bankroll Management 229
Multi-tabling 230
Online Poker Tools 231

<u>Appendices</u>
Appendix 1: Equilibrium Solution for Moving in Far from the Money 234
Appendix 2: Equilibrium Calling Strategies for Far from the Money 237
Appendix 3: Assumed Rank Order for Pushing Hands 240
Appendix 4: Assumed Rank Order for Calling Hands 241
Appendix 5: Limitations of ICM 242

[deacsoft]

In the future please provide a link to that kind of information rather than posting it here. Thanks.

[MyTurn2Raise]

that TOC just blew my mind

cannot believe most of that stuff will be in print on a non-internet forum form of media

hopefully, this book isn't that popular

[Shandrax]

Two things:

A. Sorry Tysen, but that title qualifies for most terrible book title ever and I hope it wasn't designed to appeal to a certain target group of players (uneducated macho type)

B. What I never understood about game theory in Hold'em was that a correct calling frequency also means that you have to have a bluffcatcher a certain amount of times. In contrast to draw poker where most examples for game theory come from, it's tough to make a hand in Hold'em, even a bluffcatcher, and very often the opponent is bluffing with the best hand. Let's say your math tells you that you are required to call in x% of the cases, but your mix of hands has you fold most small pairs on the flop and take a lot of busted draws to the river, so in many cases you don't even have a hand to call with. Are you adressing such things in the book?

The obvious solution would be to either take more low pairs or less draws to the river. In each case though, it would mean making a -EV play on the respective hand. Well, I guess that is what ballancing is all about after all...