About Dan Harrington vii
About Bill Robertie ix
Introduction 1
Organization of the Book 3
Part 1 Basic No-Limit Hold 'em Concepts 5
Introduction 6
Structure: Full Ring versus 6-Max 7
Seat Names 12
Style: Tight and Loose, Aggressive and Passive 13
Straightforward Players and Tricky Players 15
Ranges 16
Position 18
The Four Basic Principles of No-Limit Hold 'em 20
No. 1 The Strength Principle 20
No. 2 The Aggression Principle 21
No. 3 The Betting Principle 22
No. 4 The Deception Principle 22
Opening Hand Ranges 24
Opening from Later Positions 27
Bet Sizing for Opening Raises 29
Varying Your Raise Sizes 31
Preflop Limping 33
3- and 4- Betting Preflop 34
Flop: Heads-Up or Multiway 37
Heads-Up on the Flop 37
Multiway on the Flop 39
Types of Bets on the Flop 42
Value Bets 42
Bluffs 44
Semi-Bluffs 44
Continuation Bets 45
Donk Bets 45
Information Bet 46
Understanding Flop Texture 47
Bet Sizing on the Flop and Later Streets 52
Playing the Turn 55
Betting the Turn 56
Checking the Turn 60
Playing the River 62
Expectation and Expected Value 67
Pot Odds 70
Expressed and Implied Odds 71
Reverse Implied Odds 73
Stack Sizes 75
Short Stacks 75
Medium Stacks 77
Full Stacks 77
Deep Stacks 77
Tailoring Your Strategy to the Stack Size 78
Implied Odds 80
Hand Strength and Pot Size 82
Pot Commitment 85
Stack to Pot Ratio 86
Part 2 Playing Online 89
Introduction 90
Online Play versus Live Play 92
Stakes 92
Multi-Tabling 93
Physical Reads 94
Buy-Ins 94
Summary 95
Databases 96
Heads-Up Displays (HUDs) 96
Understanding PokerTracker Data 97
Basic Information 97
The Classics 99
Other Useful Preflop Statistics 104
Post-Flop Action Statistics 107
Post-Flop Summary Statistics 113
Constructing Your HUD 116
A Minimal HUD 116
A More Useful HUD 117
A Very Detailed HUD 118
Conserving Space 119
Drawing Inferences 121
Sample HUD No. 1 121
Our Game Plan 123
Sample HUD No. 2 124
Our Game Plan 125
Sample HUD No. 3 126
Our Game Plan 128
Monitoring Our Own HUD 128
Other HUD Statistics 131
Taking Notes 135
Structuring Our Notes 138
Notes Unrelated to Specific Hands 138
Preflop Notes 140
General Post-Flop Notes 142
Flop Notes 145
Turn Notes 148
River Notes 149
Some Examples of Note-Taking 149
Sample Hand No. 1 150
Sample Hand No. 2 152
Sample Hand No. 3 154
Making Notes after a Session 156
First All-in Hand 160
Second All-in Hand 162
Conclusions 162
Final Thoughts 163
Multi-Tabling 164
Last Thought on Multi-Tabling 169
Selecting Sites, Tables, and Seats 171
Selecting a Site 172
Big or Small, New or Old? 172
Database Support? 173
Datamining? 173
Honesty? 174
Player Strength? 175
Rake and Rakeback? 175
Rakebacks and Bonuses? 176
Selecting a Table 178
Evaluating Your Seat 180
Part 3 Ranges and Distributions 189
Introduction: The Old Way of Seeing 190
What is a Range? 195
Playing Against a Tight Range 196
Playing Against Looser Opening Ranges 205
Estimating Calling Ranges 207
What is a Distribution? 212
Calculating Distributions 217
Distributions Against a 12 Percent Range 218
Distributions Against a 25 Percent Range 223
Studying Hands 228
Summary 243
Part 4 Beating Micro-Stakes Games 245
Introduction: How Micro-Stakes Players Play 246
Offense and Defense in Poker 247
General Advice for Beating Micro-Stakes Games 250
Starting Hand Guide for Micro-Stakes 6-Max Games 259
Strategy No. 1: Playing Tight 259
Strategy No. 2: Loosening Up 261
Blind-Stealing 264
Bet Sizing in Micro-Stakes Games 266
Attacking Limpers with Isolation Raises 270
Limping and Calling 274
3- and 4- Betting in Micro-Stakes Games 276
The Johnny All-in Move 283
Playing with Ace-King 287
Value Betting at Micro-Stakes 289
Semi-Bluffing at Micro-Stakes 295
Trapping 298
Dealing with Strong Bets Post-Flop 303
Looking Forward 311
The Problems 312
Part 5 Beating Small Stakes Games 363
Introduction: Moving Up 364
Adapting to Small Stakes 366
Player Types 366
HUD Statistics 368
Table Selection 369
Preflop Ranges and Actions 370
General Post-Flop Tendencies 371
Flop Play 372
Turn Play 373
River Play 373
Fancy Plays Start to Matter 374
Defense Starts to Matter 375
Good Hand Reading is Now Important 376
Playing Against Short Stacks 377
Preflop Starting Hands 378
Blind Stealing and Blind Defense 383
Blind Defense 387
3-Betting and 4-Betting 390
Responding to an Opening Raise 391
A Sample Situation 392
A Second Example 400
Attacking Weak Raisers 402
Responding to a 3-bet 403
Flop Tactics at Small Stakes 408
You Were the Aggressor Preflop 408
Playing Big Hands 409
Playing Top Pair, Top Kicker/Overpair Hands 411
Playing Draws 415
Playing Weak Hands or Nothing Hands 418
Defending Against a Continuation Bet 420
Value Betting in Small Stakes Games 427
Trouble on the River 427
Extracting Value with Bigger Hands 434
The Problems 439
Glossary 503
Index 515
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