| About David Sklansky | | vii | |
| About Ed Miller | | ix | |
| Introduction | | 1 | |
| About This Book by David Sklansky | | 5 | |
| Some Notes About the Examples | | 7 | |
| Part One: Fundamentals | | 9 | |
| | 11 | |
| Manipulating the Pot Size |
| | 12 | |
| Adjusting Correctly to Stack Sizes |
| | 13 | |
| Winning the Battle of Mistakes |
| | 14 | |
| | 15 | |
| Manipulating Opponents into Playing Badly |
| | 15 | |
| | 16 | |
| No Limit and the Fundamental Theorem of Poker |
| | 17 | |
| Thinking In Terms of Expectation - Playing the Nuts on the River |
| | 21 | |
| | 23 | |
| | 25 | |
| The Pot Size Philosophy ù An Example |
| | 28 | |
| The Importance of Implied Odds |
| | 33 | |
| Imperfect Information and Implied Odds |
| | 35 | |
| Don't Justify Their Optimistic Calls |
| | 40 | |
| | 44 | |
| | 45 | |
| | 45 | |
| When Your Opponent Could Have One of Several Draws |
| | 47 | |
| | 48 | |
| How Big Do You Want Their Mistake to Be? |
| | 48 | |
| Expectation and Multiple Possible Hands |
| | 51 | |
| Don't Take Away Their Rope |
| | 53 | |
| Your Opponent Thinks He May Have the Best Hand |
| | 54 | |
| You Might Not Have the Best Hand |
| | 55 | |
| | 56 | |
| The Hammer of Future Bets |
| | 58 | |
| | 60 | |
| | 61 | |
| | 61 | |
| A Little More About Getting the Job Done |
| | 63 | |
| An Exception to the Basic Rule |
| | 63 | |
| When Bigger Bluff Sizes Will Fold More Hands |
| | 64 | |
| Bluffing on the Turn and River |
| | 66 | |
| | 66 | |
| Two Principles for Turn and River Bluffs |
| | 68 | |
| Save Enough on the Turn for a Credible River Bluff |
| | 69 | |
| Bet as Much as You Can on the Turn While Still Retaining a Credible River Bluff |
| | 70 | |
| | 74 | |
| Bet-Sizing for Information |
| | 75 | |
| Quantifying the Value of Information |
| | 76 | |
| | 77 | |
| | 79 | |
| Another Opportunity to Gather Information |
| | 80 | |
| | 81 | |
| Playing the Nuts on the River ù More Examples |
| | 82 | |
| | 83 | |
| Two Other "Big Bet" Situations |
| | 84 | |
| Value Betting on the River |
| | 87 | |
| | 89 | |
| Absolute and Relative Position |
| | 91 | |
| Position and Hand Reading |
| | 93 | |
| | 95 | |
| | 97 | |
| | 98 | |
| | 99 | |
| | 100 | |
| | 101 | |
| Raising to Steal the Blinds |
| | 103 | |
| | 104 | |
| | 106 | |
| Raising to Manipulate the Pot Size |
| | 108 | |
| | 110 | |
| Sizing Your Preflop Raises |
| | 111 | |
| | 112 | |
| Make Bigger Value Raises Against Straightforward Players |
| | 115 | |
| Make Bigger Raises Against Players Who Fold Too Much Postflop |
| | 115 | |
| Make Smaller Raises Against Players Who Call Too Much Postflop |
| | 116 | |
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| | 125 | |
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| | 125 | |
| You are First to Enter the Pot |
| | 127 | |
| Exactly One Player Has Limped in Front of You |
| | 128 | |
| Two or More Players Have Limped in Front of You |
| | 128 | |
| Someone Has Opened for a Raise, No Callers Yet |
| | 129 | |
| Someone Has Opened for a Raise, One or More Callers |
| | 129 | |
| Someone Has Opened for a Raise, and Another Player Reraised |
| | 129 | |
| | 130 | |
| | 130 | |
| Adjusting to Stack Sizes ù An Example |
| | 131 | |
| | 133 | |
| | 134 | |
| | 135 | |
| | 138 | |
| Downsides to the Blocking Bet |
| | 140 | |
| Defending Against the Blocking Bet |
| | 141 | |
| | 142 | |
| | 143 | |
| Defending Against the Call Bluff |
| | 146 | |
| | 147 | |
| | 148 | |
| Don't Do It Just Because You Can |
| | 148 | |
| | 149 | |
| | 152 | |
| Betting Yourself Off a Hand |
| | 154 | |
| Bluffing With a Fairly Good Hand |
| | 158 | |
| | 160 | |
| | 161 | |
| | 162 | |
| Playing Strong Draws on the Flop |
| | 163 | |
| | 167 | |
| | 168 | |
| When Shallow Thinking is Best |
| | 170 | |
| When You Need to Think More Deeply |
| | 171 | |
| | 174 | |
| | 176 | |
| | 179 | |
| | 180 | |
| Adjusting to Loose Games and Players |
| | 183 | |
| | 185 | |
| | 186 | |
| Big Preflop Pots for Big Pairs |
| | 187 | |
| | 189 | |
| | 189 | |
| | 190 | |
| Adjusting to Weak Tight Games |
| | 191 | |
| | 191 | |
| | 194 | |
| | 198 | |
| The Advantage to Being Short Stacked |
| | 199 | |
| Definition of a Short Stack |
| | 199 | |
| | 199 | |
| | 200 | |
| | 202 | |
| When Should You Play Short? |
| | 203 | |
| | 204 | |
| | 205 | |
| Calling Preflop All-in Raises |
| | 206 | |
| | 211 | |
| | 213 | |
| The Sklansky-Chubukov Rankings |
| | 214 | |
| | 221 | |
| When to (and When Not to) Use the Sklansky-Chubukov Rankings |
| | 222 | |
| | 222 | |
| The Best Hands for Moving In |
| | 223 | |
| An Exception to Moving In |
| | 224 | |
| Moving In With "Too Many" Chips |
| | 225 | |
| Moving In May Not Be Best with Hands that Play Well |
| | 226 | |
| Some Preflop Heads-Up All-In Matchups |
| | 228 | |
| | 230 | |
| Manipulating Your Opponents |
| | 231 | |
| | 231 | |
| Make Obvious Errors to Induce Costly Errors |
| | 233 | |
| | 237 | |
| | 238 | |
| | 238 | |
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| | 239 | |
| | 239 | |
| Spotting and Using a Tell |
| | 240 | |
| Part Two: Concepts and Weapons | | 241 | |
| | 243 | |
| | 244 | |
| Conclusion | | 297 | |
| The Sklansky-Chubukov Rankings | | 299 | |
| Index | | 311 | |