«Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em» Ed Miller, Sunny Mehta

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Ed Miller, Sunny Mehta and Matt Flynn

«Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em»

Exclusive Russian translation, paperback, 416 pages, published in 2011, ISBN 978-5-905432-01-9.

No-limit hold’em offers amazing opportunities… if you have the necessary skills. To win big in today’s games, you need the full arsenal of the latest theories, strategies and tactics at your disposal.

Here is a unique guide to the game, made possible because three of the world’s leading experts – renowned poker specialist Ed Miller, outstanding professional player Sunny Mehta and celebrated practical theorist Matt Flynn – decided to share their knowledge with you.

Using examples from actual play to illustrate key ideas, this book presents advanced poker theory in a simple, accessible form that makes learning easy. You will master powerful, profitable tactics and be able to develop winning strategies just as the strongest professional players do.

By reading this book, you will learn to:

• Steal blinds and play preflop

• Make decisions based on an analysis of your equity

• Win at short-handed tables online and in live games

• Isolate weak players and counter tough, aggressive players

• Determine the optimal bet size for a bluff and plan an expensive bluff

• Balance your lines of play for maximum deception

…and much more!

A new bestseller from some of the best-known poker authors, whose strength is their ability to bring simple and deeper ideas together harmoniously in one book. This poker book fills a crucial gap in the literature by teaching intermediate players the skills and tools essential for success in today’s no-limit hold’em games.

More than half of the book’s material focuses specifically on short-handed online games with $1/$2 blinds, as games at these stakes are currently the most popular, and learning to beat them will make you feel like a favorite in almost any game. The book also covers more complex topics relating to high-stakes games and includes some light but instructive material that helps readers refresh their memory and rethink the fundamentals of poker.

Besides being profitable and hugely popular, games with $1/$2 blinds provide an ideal setting for illustrating most of the key concepts of no-limit hold’em. Using these games as examples, the authors examine many fundamental issues in this form of poker in detail.

Contents

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Basics

Sixty-Four Squares

Showdown Equity and Steal Equity

Using Equity to Make Decisions

Stealing

Factors Affecting Stealing

Chapter 2: Beating Short-Handed $1/$2 Online Games

Introduction

Stealing Blinds and Playing in Position

Classifying Players by Their Statistics

Barreling

Getting Value with Good Hands

Light 3-Bets and the “3-Bet – 4-Bet – 5-Bet” Game

Isolating Weak Players

Responding to Others’ Aggression

Specific Preflop Decisions

Putting It All Together



Chapter 3: Seven Simple Steps to Success in No-Limit Hold’em

Step № 1: Play Tight

Step № 2: Don’t Play Out of Position

Step № 3: Don’t Overplay Your Hands in Small Pots

Step № 4: Big Hands Need Big Pots

Step № 5: Pull the Trigger

Step № 6: Adjust to Your Opponents

Step № 7: Stay Calm While Playing

Congratulations!



Chapter 4: Beyond $1/$2

The Basics of Fixed Bet Sizes

Planning a Big Bluff

Overbetting the Flop

Underbetting in a Multiway Pot

Balancing Your Lines

Bankroll Requirements