Professional No-Limit Hold 'em: Volume I - Softcover

Flynn, Professor Matt; Mehta, Sunny; Miller, Ed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 188068540X ISBN 13: 9781880685402

Publisher: Two Plus Two Pub., 2007

Synopsis

The book book addresses the elements of the game most likely to befuddle novice players: how to handle stacks of different sizes, how to weight pot odds versus implied odds, how to make the most with monster hands, and what to do with marginal hands in tricky spots. Their central lesson is to plan your hand. In other words, they advise players to think about what kind of flops they want to see, how big of a pot they will want to play on these flops, and what kind of turn and river spots they may face before deciding what to with their pre-flop starting hands. Giving it much more content than the average strategy guide. Most of the book is dedicated to what it really means to plan a hand and how to go about doing so. Since the threat of an all-in bet looms over every hand of no limit hold 'em, the authors work backwards from this possibility. The authors explain what it means to be committed to the pot and how to avoid putting your entire stack at risk when you don't intend to do so. Again, 'pot control' is a much-bandied-about bit of jargon, but rarely is it explained as clearly or as practically as it is here: "Pot control means deciding early in a hand what size you want the final pot to be, and then choosing your actions to make it that size."

About this edition

• Publisher: Two Plus Two Pub.
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 188068540X
• ISBN 13: 9781880685402
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314