Book "Poker Cadillac" by François Montmirel
New Edition!!
This highly anticipated book by François Montmirel presents a 100% color, 100% Texas Hold'em book.
Beginner amateur, seasoned player, this book is aimed at an audience that has acquired the basics of poker and who, through François's wise advice, seeks to improve their game.
Here is the table of contents:
Part One: Getting Started
1. How Texas Hold'em no limit works - Announcements - Betting round - Shuffle - Equipment - Things to do - Prohibited - Unethical things - Possible hands;
2. 20 ways to play Texas Hold'em no limit
1. Free tournament at home or in unofficial club
2. Free tournament (freeroll) online
3. Free tournament (freeroll) satellite
4. Cash tournament at home or in unofficial club
5. Cash tournament in official club
6. Cash tournament online
7. Cash satellite tournament
8. Cash tournament in international festival
9. Free game online
10. Free game at home or in unofficial club
11. Cash game at home or in unofficial club
12. Cash game in official club
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: Numbered Architecture
4. Endogenous probabilities
1. Player's hopes in starting hand
2. Improvement on the flop
3. Potential of starting hands
4. Various improvements until the complete board
5. Nature of the flop
6. Flops with three of a kind or pair
7. Maximum card of 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. Reverse 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: Adapt to the opponent's game
12. Action 2: Attack to protect your hand
13. Action 3: Test the opponent to guess their hand
14. Action 4: Semi-bluff
15. Action 5: Push the opponent to bluff
16. Action 6: Check & raise
17. Action 7: Target the opponent
18. Action 8: Determine why to get into a hand
19. Action 9: Over-raise
20. Action 10: Underplay
21. Action 11: Allow yourself to be bluffed
22. Action 12: Steal the blinds
23. Action 13: Play in a blind position
24. Action 14: Gain respect
25. Action 15: Identify the stakes and stick to them
26. Quiz by Fougan: 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: Impassivity
32. Quality 6: Empathy
33. Quality 7: Resilience
34. Quality 8: Perspective
35. Quality 9: Variety
36. Quality 10: Selectivity
Part Six: In the Flames of Hell
37. Typical mistakes
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. A hair's breadth from victory
43. Give nothing, ask for nothing, but win everything
44. A sea of shadows, spectators, and onlookers
45. Eight matches for a title
Appendices
46. Exclusive interview with Pascal Perrault
47. Franco-American glossary - Resources - Index
Specialized inserts
- Side pots or exterior pots
- 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"
- Paper advertising on Poker
- 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.