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no-limit hold’em, from first principles

how to learn glossary

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A deck has fifty-two cards.

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The game0 / 5

01The dealnext 02Hand rankings 03A hand, start to finish 04Betting 05Side pots and split pots ✓Checkpoint

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Fundamentals0 / 4

06Odds and outs 07Position 08Ranges 09The language of bets ✓Checkpoint

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After the flop0 / 3

10Strategy 11Turn and river 12Reading hands ✓Checkpoint

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Beyond the table0 / 2

13Tournaments 14Decisions, not results ✓Checkpoint

Practice

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Daily spotOne problem a day, the same for everyone.Which hand winsTwo hands, pick the stronger.Count the outsHow many cards help you?Pot oddsWhat do you need to call?Play or foldYour two cards, your seat. Decide.Rule of 2 and 4Outs to percent, in your head.Side potsWho wins how much?Nuts or notCan anything beat you?Push or foldTen big blinds. All in, or out?

For nerds

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Pot odds & equityWhat a call costs as a share of the final pot, and why you call when your chance to win is higher.Expected valueWeight each result by how often it happens and add them up: the way to compare any two poker decisions.CombinatoricsWhy there are 1,326 starting hands, how many ways each can be dealt, and how the cards you can see remove combinations.Range vs rangeList every hand they could hold, weight each by its combinations, and see how often you’re ahead.Bet sizingEvery bet sets two prices: how often they need to win to call, and how often your bluff must work.Bluffing & MDFHow often a bluff has to work, and how often you must defend so they can’t bet any two cards: minimum defence frequency.Nash equilibriumA bluffing game solved on one square: best replies, the point where neither player can gain, and why a third of bets are bluffs.Variance & bankrollWhy a winning player can lose for thousands of hands, and how big a bankroll has to be to survive the swings.How computers solved pokerHow poker programs taught themselves by self-play and regret matching, from a toy bluffing game to Libratus and Pluribus.ICMWhy tournament chips aren’t money: the Independent Chip Model, prize equity, and why calls get tighter near the money.The rakePoker is zero-sum until the house takes a cut. How the rake makes it negative-sum, and how good you need to be to break even.BlockersHow the cards in your hand change what they can hold: counting flush combinations, and why holding the ace matters.

Cases

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The bluffFold equity The trapSlowplaying The river nineAll-in equity All cases→

Play

against the equilibrium

Kuhn pokerThree cards, one bet. Solved exactly.3 cards Push or foldHeads-up at 10 big blinds.10 bb

Tools

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