Book "Poker Cadillac"
By François Montmirel
New Edition!!
This long-awaited book by François Montmirel presents us with a 100% color, 100% Texas Hold'em book.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced player, this book is aimed at an audience who has acquired the basics of poker and who, through François's expert advice, seeks to improve their game.
Here is the summary:
Part One: Getting Started
1. How Texas Hold'em No-Limit Works – Announcements – Betting Rounds – Shuffling – Equipment – Things to Do – Prohibited Actions – Unethical Behavior – Possible Hands;
2. 20 Ways to Practice Texas Hold'em No-Limit
1. Free home or unofficial club tournament
2. Online freeroll tournament
3. Satellite freeroll tournament
4. Cash home or unofficial club tournament
5. Official club cash tournament
6. Online cash tournament
7. Cash satellite tournament
8. Cash tournament in international festival
9. Free play game online
10. Free game at home or unofficial club
11. Cash game at home or unofficial club
12. Official club cash game
13. Cash game online
14. Cash game in international festival
15. Sit & go
16. Heads-up tournament
17. Televised tournament
18. Speed Poker™
19. Team tournament
20. Strip poker
3. Tournaments or cash games?
Part Two: Numerical Architecture
4. Endogenous Probabilities
1. Player's hopes with starting hands
2. Improvement after the flop
3. Potential of starting hands
4. Various improvements until the complete board
5. Nature of the flop
6. Flops with trips or pairs
7. Maximum card on the flop
8. Straight draws on the flop
9. Improvements after the flop
5. Exogenous Probabilities
10. Card odds
11. Pot odds or financial odds
12. Implied financial odds
13. Reversed implied financial odds
14. Preflop duels
15. Duels on the flop
16. Summary table of main duels on the flop
Part Three: The 4 Key Decision Factors
6. Factor 1: Hand strength
1. The Infernal Trio
2. Strong hands
3. Small pairs
4. Big flush draws
5. Suited connectors
6. Summary
7. Factor 2: Position
8. Factor 3: Chip stack
9. Factor 4: Opponents
10. Combined factors
Part Four: The 15 Basic Strategic Actions
11. Action 1: Adjusting to the opponent's play
12. Action 2: Attacking to protect your hand
13. Action 3: Testing the opponent to guess their hand
14. Action 4: Semi-bluffing
15. Action 5: Pushing opponents to bluff
16. Action 6: Check & raise
17. Action 7: Targeting opponents
18. Action 8: Looking for reasons to enter a hand
19. Action 9: Overbetting
20. Action 10: Underbetting
21. Action 11: Letting yourself get bluffed
22. Action 12: Stealing the blinds
23. Action 13: Playing from the big blind
24. Action 14: Earning respect
25. Action 15: Identifying stakes and sticking to them
26. Crazy Quiz: 100 questions and their answers
Part Five: The Top 10 Qualities for Success
27. Quality 1: Courage
28. Quality 2: Patience
29. Quality 3: Discipline
30. Quality 4: Observation
31. Quality 5: Impassiveness
32. Quality 6: Empathy
33. Quality 7: Resilience
34. Quality 8: Detachment
35. Quality 9: Versatility
36. Quality 10: Selectivity
Part Six: In the Flames of Hell
37. Typical Errors
38. Poker Dangers
Part Seven: Live Tournaments
39. 52 minutes for 52 cards
40. The ultimate WSOP of the millennium
41. The man worth 6 million dollars
42. One hair away from victory
43. Giving nothing, asking for nothing, but winning it all
44. A sea of shadows, spectators, and onlookers
45. Eight matches for one title
Appendices
46. Exclusive interview with Pascal Perrault
47. Franco-American glossary – Resources – Index
Specialized insets
- Side pots or outsiders
- Full houses
- Against a beginner
- The most important festivals of the year (Europe/USA)
- The 3 main tournament circuits
- Luck and bad luck
- "Our pair"
- Poker print advertising
- Surveys
- Good advice from Lou, Barry, and Joe
- Combating gambling excesses
- Practicing Texas Hold'em No-Limit
- The Gospel according to Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
- Tournament rules
- Victoria London 2006 - WSOP 2005
- The chip race
608 pages.