Championship No Limit Pot Limit Hold Em

This is the bible of winning pot-limit and no-limit hold’em tournaments. Players get all the answers here—no holds barred—to their most important questions for winning at hold’em. They learn how much to bet, raise, and reraise, when it is good to bluff, how to set up opponents to win monster pots, and the optimal strategies for no-limit and pot-limit tournaments, satellites, and supersatellites. Everything from starting hand strategies to how to play different stages of a tournament—including getting into the money—adjusting for stack sizes and key practice hands is covered in detail. This book is a must-read for hold’em players!

Reduced in price by $10, and expanded in page count, this new, expanded edition, includes more than 15 detailed practice hands, new strategies for winning tournaments to reflect the new players and playing styles found today, and more than 25 new card illustrations. There is also new material on the different theories and approaches to winning hold’em tournaments, particularly today’s “small ball” strategies, plus a new chapter, 21 Money-Making Tips from the Pros, showing players how they can increase their income from cash games and tournaments. This is the bible of winning pot-limit and no-limit hold’em tournaments. Players get all the answers here—no holds barred—to their most important questions for winning at hold’em. They learn how much to bet, raise, and reraise, when it is good to bluff, how to set up opponents to win monster pots, and the optimal strategies for no-limit and pot-limit tournaments, satellites, and supersatellites. Everything from starting hand strategies to how to play different stages of a tournament—including getting into the money—adjusting for stack sizes and key practice hands is covered in detail. This book is a must-read for hold’em players!

Written by World Champion players T. J. Cloutier and Tom McEvoy (8 titles between them), this is the definitive guide to winning at two of the world's most exciting poker games! All the answers to players most important questions are here: How do you get inside your opponents' heads and learn how to beat them at their own game? How can you tell how much to bet, raise, and reraise in no-limit hold'em? When can you bluff? How do you set up your opponents in pot-limit hold'em so that you can win a monster pot? What are the best strategies for winning no-limit and pot-limit tournaments, satellites, and supersatellites? Rock-solid and inspired advice from two of the most recognizable figures in poker.

"[This book] ..teaches theoretical sound poker, and thus the ability to create the best-sizings and ranges that will beat the better players ... Many confusing concepts such as overbetting, balancing multiple bet-sizing ranges, donk betting, and check-raising as the preflop raiser are crucial to a player's strategy, despite few players implementing them or talking about them. ..reading this book, you should be able to not only conceptually understand these ideas, but also know how to begin to incorporate them into your game and thereby successfully complete against tough opponents"--Back cover.

Millions of dollars are waiting for you in poker's most exciting game, no-limit Texas hold'em, and this book shows you how to claim your share of it! McEvoy and Vines, who have won cuontless tournaments, teach you the essential moves and strategies that will make you a major threat in any tournament you play. You'll learn a wealth of information in this book: How to use bluffs, position, and big stacks to bully opponents and win chips, how to adjust between no-limit tournaments and cash games, how to play rebuy and add-on events, and how to adjust strategies for every type of opponent and tournament structure. From basic plays, intermediate tactics, and advanced strategies, to the professional plays used by world champions, this powerful guide is a complete course in winning small, medium, and big money tournaments.

World champion poker players demonstrate the winning strategies for the hottest poker game. The 2004 World Series of Poker awarded more than $30 million in prize money, the biggest prize of any sporting event, with the first place winner receiving $5 million! That, for a mere investment of $10,000. This is the first-ever instructional book devoted entirely to showing players how to win no-limit hold'em tournaments as nationally televised on ESPN and the Travel Channel and watched by millions each week. Readers learn the basic concepts of tournament strategy, plus: how to win big by playing small buy-in events, how to graduate and adjust to medium and big buy-in tournaments, how to adjust for short fields, huge fields, different time periods (slow and fast-action events), how to win online no-limit tournaments, how to manage a tournament bankroll, all the basic and advanced betting and positional strategies, and tips on table demeanor for televised tournaments. The authors also show actual hands played by finalists at the WSOP and the WPT championship tables with card pictures, analysis and useful lessons from the play.

Excelling at No-Limit Hold'em is a sensation in poker publishing. Renowned poker professional and author Jonathan Little brings together 17 of the greatest no-limit experts in the world to discuss all aspects of the game. These experts include superstars such as Phil Hellmuth, Chris Moneymaker, Mike Sexton and Jared Tendler. In Part 1 strategies are analysed for topics such as understanding the fundamentals, satellite play, lower-buy in events, analysing tells and moving up in stakes Part 2 sees a thorough technical breakdown of the game including sections on range analysis, game theory optimal play, short stack strategies, value betting and final table play. As any serious poker will confirm, the technical side is only half the battle and so Part 3 deals with mental toughness, psychology and understanding tilt. Excelling at No-Limit Hold‘em provides all the tools that an aspiring player needs to understand no-limit hold‘em. It is a must buy for anyone who is serious about wanting to improve their poker.