Donkey Poker teaches you how to crush the low-stakes live no-limit hold'em games you will find in Las Vegas. These "Donkey Games" play much differently than high-stakes live games or even low-stakes online games, so the optimal strategies are often much different. Donkey Games are filled with players who make the same mistakes over and over again and who are very exploitable. Donkey Poker teaches a small-ball brand of exploitive and low-variance poker. It teaches you what to do and why you should do it.
This 3rd Edition analyzes six million hand histories to identify the most profitable online No Limit Hold'em poker strategies, (an increase from 2 million in the 2nd edition). The new edition also includes additional new content. These "optimal" strategies are verified for stakes between NL10 ($0.05/$0.10) and NL200 ($1.00/$2.00) full ring online games. Despite the title, this book is not really a mathematics book, though it is certainly statistical behind the curtain. It assumes that the reader is already familiar with No Limit Hold'em and much of the poker jargon that goes with it. It does not teach you how to play basic NLH. The hope is that you will recognize the basic truths revealed by the analysis and be inspired to incorporate them into your own game.
Donkey Poker is a soup-to-nuts description of how to crush low-stakes Vegas no-limit hold'em. Volume 2: Postflop teaches you everything you ever wanted to know about postflop strategy, from the flop to the river. It also covers other important topics, such as variance, bankroll management, GTO strategy, moving up in stakes and exploiting live reads. Many statistics are discussed, including those from online and live NLH. Statistics from Vegas $1/$2 and $2/$5 games are published for the first time.
Donkey Killer is written to bring novice poker players to a level they could compete with professionals. This book covers many very important aspects of the game of poker including Chip Retention, Betting Strategies, Recognizing Bluffing Opportunities and even includes a newly developed 7 Point System.
Poker is a game of table position, flop texture, players in a hand, personalities, and so much more. This book teaches you how to identify and analyze those variables, become a great strategist, and have confidence in any poker situation. Decide to Play Great Poker is written by Annie Duke, the world's most renowned woman poker player, with John Vorhaus, himself a winning poker player and prolific author.
"Beat the Donks" is a book about the lowest stakes No-Limit Hold'em games played in Las Vegas. These games are filled with "Donks" that are easy to beat as long as you can recognize and exploit their mistakes. This book defines a Donk as an experienced player who makes the same mistakes over and over again, unwilling to adapt. This stubbornness makes the Donk very predictable and, therefore, easy to beat.This book discusses some of the biggest mistakes the Donks make, including: playing too many hands, playing out of position, limping too much, calling too many preflop raises, chasing draws, poor bet sizing, and paying off with the worse hand. The book also discusses some of the most exploitable tells made by these Donks.This is not a how-to poker cookbook. It assumes the reader is already familiar with No Limit Hold'em and much of the poker jargon that goes with it. It does not teach you how to play basic NLH. Instead, it aims to refine your game by pointing out how you can exploit the various major weaknesses common to the typical Vegas Donk-fest poker games.This book has 54 hand examples from the Red Rock Poker Room in Las Vegas and 22 figures.The printed book is black & White while the ebook is color.
very great player knows that success in poker is part luck, part math, and part subterfuge. While the math of poker has been refined over the past 20 years, the ability to read other players and keep your own "tells" in check has mostly been learned by trial and error. But now, Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer specializing in nonverbal communication and behavior analysis—or, to put it simply, a man who can tell when someone's lying—offers foolproof techniques, illustrated with amazing examples from poker pro Phil Hellmuth, that will help you decode and interpret your opponents' body language and other silent tip-offs while concealing your own. You'll become a human lie detector, ready to call every bluff—and the most feared player in the room.
Tournament Poker For The Rest Of Us teaches a loose-aggressive style of no-limit hold'em. It is aimed at the experienced player who is familiar with the general concepts it takes to be a winning player. It is not aimed at the superstar pro who relies on his brilliance to pull off plays the rest of us only dream about.Part One covers the basic concepts necessary to play strong tournament poker the way I believe it should be played. Some of these basic concepts are discussed in novel and controversial ways, especially ICM, chip utility, tournament variance and game theory. Additionally, tournament statistics are presented for the first time here.Part Two is where you will learn a tournament LAG playing strategy, building on the concepts discussed in Part One. We begin by creating a deep stack playing strategy founded on the principles of tournament variance and chip utility. Then we learn how to play a perfect GTO strategy when our stacks are less than 30 big blinds.This book has been published with support from CardsChat.com and the CardsChat community. Founded in 2004, CardsChat serves a global network of more than 270,000 members -- providing an online destination for poker players who are passionate about improving their game.
