Study Group: time to reread TOP.

[Pokey]

Back in December, someone in the Single Table Tournament forum suggested this exercise, and I'm bringing the concept here.

The proposal: let's all reread Theory of Poker together. We'll go through four chapters per week until we're done with the book. The chapters are short, so this is a VERY easy process. Then, each week, we can have posts to discuss the chapters we read.

To identify the posts, make the subject line start with "TOP:" and give a brief idea of what the topic is. That way, we can focus our discussions and have a VERY productive time reading it.

Many of us need encouragement to break away from the tables and boards for long enough to read an entire *gasp* BOOK. Let's work together and get the most out of the project.

If there's enough interest in this idea, I say we start this weekend with chapters 1-4.

So: who's interested?

[The_Bends]

Great idea

[ticks]

I'm in.

[subzero]

Great idea. I wouldn't be surprised if this was done before. I'm currently reading HOH, but I was going to read TOP again afterwards. I think each chapter should be a separate thread (for easy look-up). Here they are:

Chapter One: Beyond Beginning Poker
Chapter Two: Expectation and Hourly Rate
Chapter Three: The Fundamental Theorem of Poker
Chapter Four: The Ante Structure
Chapter Five: Pot Odds
Chapter Six: Effective Odds
Chapter Seven: Implied Odds and Reverse Implied Odds
Chapter Eight: The Value of Deception
Chapter Nine: Win the Big Pots Right Away
Chapter Ten: The Free Card
Chapter Eleven: The Semi-Bluff
Chapter Twelve: Defense Against the Semi-Bluff
Chapter Thirteen: Raising
Chapter Fourteen: Check-Raising
Chapter Fifteen: Slowplaying
Chapter Sixteen: Loose and Tight Play
Chapter Seventeen: Position
Chapter Eighteen: Bluffing
Chapter Nineteen: Game Theory and Bluffing
Chapter Twenty: Inducing and Stopping Bluffs
Chapter Twenty-one: Heads-Up On The End
Chapter Twenty-two: Reading Hands
Chapter Twenty-three: The Psychology of Poker
Chapter Twenty-four: Analysis at the Table
Chapter Twenty-five: Evaluating the Game
Appendix A: Rules of Play
Appendix B: Glossary of Poker Terms

[thirteen]

I'm in also

[Grunch]

I'm going to try to be in, but time constraints may limit my participation. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[IronDragon1]

This is a fabulous idea

[thirteen]

Are we doing one chapter a week or a chapter every few days?

[thedustbustr]

I'll participate.

[starvin-garvin]

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