Beginners Guide to Limit Hold'em

by Byron Jacobs

Overview

Five years ago Internet Poker barely existed. Now, a poker revolution has occurred and at any given moment tens of thousands of players are playing poker for real money from their own homes. There are dozens of sites offering hundreds of different games. Whether you want to play for big stakes, modest stakes or just for fun money, you can log on and find a suitable live game within seconds. There are many variants of Poker but Limit Hold’em is the game. Approximately 50% of on-line players are playing Limit Hold’em. If you want to join them, then this is the book for you. Most people have a rough idea how to play poker, but the Beginners Guide to Limit Hold’em assumes no prior knowledge and builds from the absolute basics. Experienced author and successful on-line poker player Byron Jacobs provides newcomers to the game with a thorough grounding in the rules and the basic principles. Beginners Guide to Limit Hold’em deals with every aspect of playing limit hold’em on-line including the rules, etiquette, basic strategy, bankroll management and site and game selection. Poker is a fun game, but it is more fun when you win. This book will provide you with sufficient knowledge to commence your poker career as a winning player at small stakes games. • Learn Limit Hold’em from scratch or brush up on the basics • Extensive hints and tips make key advice easy to remember • Numerous problems allow you to guage your understanding of key ideas

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904468219
Publisher:	D&B Publishing
Publication date:	12/01/2005
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Byron Jacobs is a successful on-line limit hold’em player. He is the author of the highly popular How Good is Your Limit Hold’em? and is a regular columnist for Card Player magazine.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1	Why Play Poker?	9
	The Online Poker Revolution	10
	Hold'em Poker	12
	Show me the Money	14
	Developing a Feel	15
	The Scope of this Book	16
Chapter 2	The Ranking of the Hands	17
	Introduction	18
	Hand Rankings	18
	Exercise One	32
	Exercise Two	34
Chapter 3	Introducing the Board	39
	Using Seven Cards	40
	Exercise Three	50
	Understanding Hand Strength	53
	Exercise Four	61
Chapter 4	The Basics of Play	65
	How Limit Hold'em is Played	66
	The Betting	69
	A Practical Example	72
	Exercise Five	85
	Other Forms of Poker	86
Chapter 5	How Hands Develop	89
	Starting Hands - Basic Principles	90
	The Concept of Outs	91
	Playing Hands	99
	Focusing on Outs	109
	Exercise Six	116
	Developing a Feel	122
Chapter 6	Hold'em Play - Basic Principles	125
	Odds and Pot Odds	126
	Implied Odds	131
	Exercise Seven	132
	Position	133
Chapter 7	Pre-Flop Play - General Principles	135
	Position and Pre-Flop Play	136
	Domination	138
	Small Cards	140
	Pairs and Non-Pairs	143
	Suited or Offsuit	149
	Entering the Pot	152
	Playing from the Blinds	156
Chapter 8	Pre-Flop Play - Specific Strategies	157
	Playing Pairs	158
	Playing Unpaired High Cards	162
	Playing Speculative Hands	165
	In Practice	167
	Exercise Eight	176
Chapter 9	Post-Flop Concepts	179
	Introduction	180
	Pre- and Post-Flop Play	180
	Aggression	182
	Assessing the Flop	184
	Betting Concepts	191
Chapter 10	Post-Flop Strategy	197
	When to Raise	198
	The Importance of Position	201
	Outs and Pot Odds	204
	Playing a Strong Draw	217
	Slowplaying	222
	Staying out of Trouble	225
	River Play	228
	Putting it all Together	231
Chapter 11	Final Thoughts	243
	Caveat Emptor	244
	What to do Next	245
	Further Reading	246
	Results and Running Bad	247
	Keeping Track	249
	Solutions to Exercises	252
	Odds Tables	260
	Glossary	264