Expert Heads up No Limit Hold’em Play, Volume 1. Optimal And Exploitative Strategies (Poker Series)

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1.1 Heads-up No-limit Hold ’em......Page 14
1.2 Games and Strategies......Page 18
1.3 Approximate Games......Page 23
1.4 You Should Now.........Page 26
2 Game-theoretic Strategies......Page 27
2.1 Expected Value......Page 28
2.2 Maximally Exploitative Strategies......Page 33
2.3 Nash Equilibria......Page 54
2.4 Conclusions......Page 73
2.5 You Should Now…......Page 74
3 Preflop-only Games......Page 75
3.1 Shove/fold......Page 76
3.2 Raise/shove......Page 92
3.3 Bet Sizing Considerations......Page 102
3.4 Trends and Lessons......Page 104
3.5 You Should Now…......Page 109
4.1 More Preflop Bets and the Indifference Principle......Page 110
4.2 Asymmetric Ranges and Breakdown of Indifference......Page 123
4.3 Lessons......Page 131
4.4 You Should Now…......Page 133
5 Equity Distributions......Page 134
5.1 Hand Distributions......Page 135
5.2 Equity Distributions......Page 140
5.3 Equity Distributions on the River......Page 149
5.4 You Should Now…......Page 153
6.1 Introduction to Postflop Concepts......Page 154
6.2 Postflop Concepts and Board Texture......Page 157
6.3 Barrelling on Static Boards......Page 168
6.4 Distributions on Volatile Boards......Page 173
6.5 Conceptualization......Page 190
6.6 You Should Now…......Page 194
7.1 River Starting Distributions and Hand Examples......Page 196
7.2 Simple Asymmetric Situations......Page 212
7.3 General Asymmetric Starting Distributions......Page 238
7.4 Examples, Continued......Page 296
7.5 You Should Now…......Page 325
8.1 Range Splitting in Practice......Page 327
8.2 Deliberate Play......Page 335
8.3 Looking Ahead......Page 337