This book is like educational Sudoko for Poker Players. Perfect to brush up on the mental math of poker on the flight out to Las Vegas. The book starts by showing how to estimate your hand's value versus another. Then implied odds are worked on. Finally the idea of calculating your value versus and entire range of hands is taught.The book has hundreds of problems to practice on so that the mental math of poker becomes automatic and intuitive. Estimation techniques and shortcuts are taught so that you can do the right math at the table when you need it. The math is learned through repetition and this book has plenty of problems to practice on.

This poker workbook has one goal: to help you actually improve between sessions. By learning powerful concepts and drilling through exercises, your ability to calculate accurately and quickly at the tables improves. Your time at the tables shouldn't be spent trying to calculate pot odds of a call or the breakeven-% of your bluffs. Calculations like these should be automatic, giving you extra time and brainpower to find ways to optimize your edge during a hand. Now you can practice the math that underlies all aspects of your poker strategy. Drill through the technical side of your preflop playbook. And start putting a bigger gap between your winrate and the regs in your game. This workbook teaches you the formulas and lays out practice exercises for concepts like: Equity Range Building/Hand Reading Combos & Blockers Pot Odds Implied Odds Breakeven % & Auto-Profit Expected Value (EV) Open-Raising 3Betting & 4Betting Preflop All-Ins By learning these simple formulas and practicing them at your own pace, you'll find poker math getting far easier. You don't need an IQ of 175 to master poker math - you just need some guidance, some shortcuts, and some in-depth training. Complete just a few pages per day, and you'll see serious improvement in the next month. And the best news is that these concepts come into play in every single session, at every single level, and wherever you happen to play poker. So the examples in this book range from live cash games to online tournaments - without bogging you down with confusing variables that will never apply to the poker games you play. The Answer Key Based upon feedback from previous workbooks, there is an included answer key so you can double-check your answers at any point. There is a link on Page #246 so you can download the answer key OR use the online version that will get lifetime updates. This key also includes all of the range strands, making it easy to copy ranges from the workbook and paste them directly into your poker software. Is This Workbook For You? We all have to start somewhere, and no one is born with technical poker knowledge imprinted in their brain. So truthfully answer each of these: Can you look at a range and correctly estimate its %-form and number of combos? If not, then this book is for you. Do you know how often a player would fold if you 3bet or squeezed them? If not, this book is for you. Do you know how many combos of AQ a player can have on AQ4 when you hold AKs? If not, this book is for you. Do you know how much extra money you need to make when you have 15% equity and are getting 3:1 on a turn call? If not, then this book is for you. Do you know how often you can expect both the blinds to fold when you raise from the button? If not, this book is for you. Do you know how much equity AKs has against a range of QQ+/AK? If not, this book is for you. Are you 100% confident in your poker math skills yet? If not, then this book is for you. No more excuses. No more confusion when it comes to the core poker math. And no more reasons for skipping another study session. Pick up the Preflop & Math Poker Workbook and start seeing your strategy the right way. Good luck! The spiral design on the cover/back is purely decoration. Unfortunately, spiralbound printing is not an available option at this time.

Learning the math behind good poker has never been simpler. Owen's methods and shortcuts will have you applying the math at the poker table overnight.

The noted expert selects 70 of his favorite "short" puzzles, including such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and dozens more involving logic and basic math. Solutions included.

The first volume in a series, the book reviews a collection of poker hands played from the button, cutoff, and hijack positions which illustrate concepts to help improve the reader's poker game.

For decades, the highest level of poker have been dominated by players who have learned the game by playing it, road gamblers' who have cultivated intuition for the game and are adept at reading other players' hands from betting patterns and physical tells. Over the last five to ten years, a whole new breed has risen to prominence within the poker community. Applying the tools of computer science and mathematics to poker and sharing the information across the Internet, these players have challenged many of the assumptions that underlay traditional approaches to the game.'

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.