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Hold 'em Poker » (Updated)

Authors: David Sklansky
ISBN-13: 9781880685082, ISBN-10: 1880685086
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing, LLC
Date Published: December 1996
Edition: Updated

Original Publisher's Forward	iii
Note to 1997 Edition	v
Part One: Getting Started	1
Introduction	2
Dealing a Few Hands	3
The Best Possible Hand	7
Different Variations	9
Part Two: Position	11
Introduction	12
Some Considerations	13
Part Three: The First Two Cards	17
Introduction	18
Analysis of the Hand Groups	20
Part Four: Flops You Want	23
Introduction	24
Two Quick Points	27
Part Five: Strategy	37
Introduction	38
Strategy Before the Flop	41
Semi-Bluffing	46
The Free Card (Giving One and Getting One)	49
Slowplaying and Check Raising	56
Odds and Implied Odds	61
Bluffing	66
Inducing Bluffs	67
Folding Big Pots	69
Head Up vs. Multi-Way	70
Raising	71
Head Up on Fifth Street	74
Miscellaneous	79
Part Six: Reading Hands	81
Introduction	82
Using Tells to Read Hands		84
Reading Hands by the Way a Player Plays His Hand	86
Two Examples	89
The General Principle	95
Reasons for Reading Hands	97
Some Final General Principles	103
Part Seven: Probability	105
Introduction	106
Other Important Probabilities	108
Glossary of Poker Terms	109