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$29.95 A PROFESSIONAL POKER PLAYER TEACHES YOU HOW TO THINK LIKE ONE Bluffing & Semi-Bluffing Value of Deception The Free Card Slowplaying Position Reading Hands Much More David Sklansky The Theory of Poker By David Sklansky A product of Two Plus Two Publishing f we + = Hl a ay FOURTH EDITION SIXTH PRINTING October 2004 Printing and Binding Cree! Printing Co. Las Vegas, Nevada Printed in the United States of America Table of Contents About David Sklansky .... 0.2.00... 0.000005. cee IX PRICE: pccasesaesceueens sa 5% Be BEE ENE RE EY co RE Chapter One: Beyond ponent Poker .. eb The Forms of Poker -. 2 Poker Logic ...... 4 The Object of Poker .. a Chapter Two: Expectation and Hourly Rate ........--- 9 Mathematical Expectation ...... oe pete eee 9 Mathematical Expectation in Poker . Ee - 12 Hourly Rate --.- 2-22... 20.00. eens --- I4 Chapter Three: The Fundamental Theorem of Poker ... 17 Examples of The Fundamental Theorem of Poker .... 18 Example | ........-- 85 8 oy a ee OG OR > Example 2 Example 3 .. Example 4 .. Example 5 Example 6 . Gas eee “Mistakes” According to The Fundamental Theorem of POK GP ssa rcsaronrecrcnomevaeiasgee Multi-Way Pots . . an SUMUIMATY: asi. ceccereaweasics ow a Chapter Four: The Ante Structure . 27 Large Antes 2 29 Small Antes ........ 32 Summary .. - 34

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