Jonathan Little's Excelling at Tough No-Limit Hold'em Games: How to Succeed Beyond the Small Stakes

by Jonathan Little, Alex Carr, Rob Tinnion, Matt Brown, Jon van Fleet

Overview

Excelling at Tough No-Limit Hold'em Games is a must-have if you have ambitions to move up the stakes. Renowned poker player and leading coach Jonathan Little brings together ten No-Limit experts to provide cutting-edge information for the keen student.
 
All the authors are established coaches for pocarr.com, the prominent backing company. Pocarr has helped numerous players to climb the poker ladder and succeed at the highest levels in events such as the WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) and SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker).
 
Success beyond the lower stakes demands a highly specific skill set. Excelling at Tough No-Limit Hold'em Games will show you how to develop this skill set so you can rise to the top of the game.
 
Topics include:
• Quick tips for beating the low stakes games
• Adjusting your preflop strategy
• When to c-bet (continuation bet)
• How to defend against c-bets
• Navigating multi-way pots
• Basic ICM (Independent Chip Model) and advanced ICM
• Medium stacked final table strategies
• Strategies to crush live poker

Excelling at Tough No-Limit Hold'em Games is the essential guide for anyone who is serious about wanting to succeed at the high stakes and make a significant income from poker.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912862177
Publisher:	D&B Publishing
Publication date:	09/14/2020
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	1,057,368
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Little is a professional poker player from Pensacola, Florida who started playing poker when he turned 18 years old. He quickly became one of the biggest winners in online sit-n-go tournaments. He has won two WPT events and final tabled two others, earning him the Season 6 Player of the Year award. He has total earnings in excess of $7 million. He is also a consistent winner in high stakes cash games. He owns and operates the poker training site, PokerCoaching.com as well as JonathanLittlePoker.com.Alexander 'msusyr24' Carr is the founder of the poker stable, "Pocarr". Alex has staked and coached over 1,000 players and continues to provide daily support to those being backed. Rob “robtinnion” Tinnion joined Pocarr in late 2012 as a backee for $11 freezeouts on Pokerstars and his stakes have now increased up to $215 freezeouts. In 2014 he chopped a SCOOP and won the Sunday Million outright for nearly $300k combined. Shortly after he won an EPT side in London for $42k. In early 2015 Rob won the Sunday Million outright AGAIN for another $200k. He has 2 triple crowns and over 1.5 million in lifetime earnings. Rob has a degree from Oxford-Brooks University in motorsport technology.Mat “Aussie_star1” Brown is one of the most established members of the Pocarr community. He has been playing professionally since 2010 with over $2.5 million in cashes. Mr. Brown has 2 third place finishes in the Sunday Warm-Up on Stars.eu and a win in the $215 Mega-Deep on 888.Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet is one of the most successful and profitable online tournament players over the last decade. With lifetime cashes totaling over $7,000,000, he has won some of online poker’s toughest tournaments including the Stars $1,050 Super Tuesday, the PokerStars $215 Rebuy, and a FTOPS event. Altogether he has over 200 Top 3 finishes including over 100 wins.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Introduction 8

01 To GTO or Not GTO Rob Tinnion 10

02 Quick Tips to Crush the Small Stakes Mat Brown 24

03 Passive Exploits to Crush the Small Stakes Ben Shuster 46

04 Adjusting Your Preflop Strategy Jonathan Little 58

05 When To Continuation Bet Jon Van Fleet 68

06 Defending Against Continuation Bets from Out of Position Jon Van Fleet 86

07 Shallow Stacked Big Blind Defense Alexandre Mantovani 112

08 Navigating Multi-Way Pots Jonathan Little 138

09 Leading Turns from the Big Blind Richard Hoadley 170

10 Making Opponents Indifferent to Calling or Folding Alex Carr 192

11 Don't be Afraid to Go For It! Luiz Feres 202

12 Good Punt or Bad Punt? Richard Hoadley 214

13 Mastering ICM Vlada Stojanovic 240

14 Medium Stacked Final Table Strategies Bert Stevens 268

15 PKO Tournament Strategy Alexandre Mantovani 318

16 Strategies to Crush Live Poker Jonathan Little 342

17 Improve by One Percent Each Day Alex Carr 366

18 Evbb/100 and Table Count Alex Carr 392

19 Pump Up the Volume Rob Tinnion 398

20 How to be a Successful Pocarr Backee Ben Shuster 404

Conclusion 414

Editorial Reviews

If you’re someone like me, who loves the theoretical side of poker but doesn’t get to play as much as you’d like, this book is perfect. It smartly covers how to implement both GTO and exploitative strategies in thorny spots that come up all the time but haven’t gotten much attention from other books. I can already think of tons of hands where it’s going to win me extra chips."

Nate Silver

Jonathan Little continues to offer up the best poker advice in the business for both part time poker hobbyists and seasoned professionals. Excelling at Tough No-Limit Hold’em Games is a must read for anyone who takes their poker game seriously

Card Player magazine

Jonathan Little is a phenomenal coach. I've learned so much from listening to him over the years—and I'm excited to read his latest guide to strategy. It's going straight on my shelf the moment it's released.

Maria Konnikova

Jonathan Little collaborating with Jon Van Fleet (Apestyles online) makes this book a must-purchase if you want to work on your game. This book touches on a number of topics that are at the forefront of the poker world today such as the heavily popular PKO bounty tournaments and making adjustments from GTO play in order to exploit your opponents. A vast array of subjects are covered in the book which will help even an already serious poker player improve their game.

Chris Moorman

Let’s face it, no-limit hold’em isn’t the same game many of us learned in the Mid-2000s. It’s evolved considerably and players have gotten better. As a result, the games are tougher. In order to compete nowadays, you must evolve with it. In Excelling at Tough No-Limit Hold’em Games, Jonathan Little and his assembled experts will not only bring you up to speed on today’s game, but they will also help you stay a step ahead of the competition.

PokerNews.com - Chad Holloway

Jonathan Little is one of the world’s premier poker coaches. A highly accomplished player himself, he has a unique knack for being able to transmit poker strategies –– no-limit hold’em tournament strategy in particular –– in an easy-to-understand way that has attracted thousands of students worldwide. Moreover, Little is an excellent judge of talent as far as knowing which professional poker players possess the various types of qualifications and expertise needed to teach students. He’s assembled one hell of a line up for Excelling at Tough No-Limit Hold'em Games and it’s clear that anyone who picks up this book will benefit greatly from the instruction and lessons Little and his co-authors impart.

Robbie Strazynski

This book is a worthy investment of time and money for poker players of any level. I found chapters 7, 10, 13, and 14 to be especially informative. Thank you

Brandon Adams