Professional No-Limit Holdem: Volume 1 - Question

[r1base14]

Any chance you guys can tantalize us with a full Table of Contents? Pretty please with a cherry on top?

Ryan

[Bad Beat Maker]

Isn't this book coming out the 27th?

[Matt Flynn]

I'll ask Mason. I only have the TOC in PDF format.

[r1base14]

Cool, thanks.

[CasinoR7]

Cool, indeed.

[MarkD]

It says on the front page of 2+2 that the shipping date is July 20th. Can anyone (Mason) confirm that the gambler's book club will have a copy on that day? I happen to be in Vegas from the 15-20th and would purchase a copy if they have on that day.

[scorer]

i pre ordered the book from profpoker in vegas and got the amazon price= great deal. My understanding is it will be published 7/20 and mailed monday

[Mason Malmuth]

Hi Mark:

I just returned from the printer and it appears that binding will start on the 18th. If that's the case, we could have some books on the 19th, but I'm not sure which of the two new books will be done first. This also means that we should begin shipping books out of our office on the 20th as announced, but it is unlikely, though not impossible, that Gambler's Book Club or Gambler's General Store will have them that day.

Best wishes,
Mason

[MarkD]

Thanks Mason. I had never heard of the Gambler's General Store. I guess I will just call each of them when I am there on the 20th and see if they have them.

If not, I will have to wait to order it online. I'm not in a huge rush, but the convenience factor is always nice.

[Mason Malmuth]

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