I was really excited to hear that Vanessa and Annie was working together on a book on heads-up poker. Was slightly disappointed that it wasn't in the vein of 'Choose to play great poker' but was a hand-by-hand analysis of past games. There is another popular concept called ‘Any Ace’ in which players are encouraged to raise any hand where they get any ace during heads-up play. The reason for this strategy is that, statistically, most hands will end up in a battle between two random cards. Holding an ace can give you a 52% chance to win against another random non-paired hand. As much as poker is like a sport, it is quite different from most individual and team sports when it comes to setting records. The truth is that the best poker players, and the best poker hands. Poker Hand Odds Calculator Heads Up Heads Heads up poker is the purest form of the game and is one of the most profitable game types for skilled players. Heads up poker format means that you will have to play the blind every hand and hence will have to play LOTS of hands - in some cases 100% of the hands. Heads-up tournament poker: hand-by-hand. Annie Duke; Vanessa Rousso; Josh Doody - You'll learn how two of the best heads-up tournament players think through every decision in more than 600 hands as they battle their way to the final round in the prestigious NBC Heads-Up.

Author: Annie Duke, Vanessa Rousso, Josh Doody

Year: Feb 2013

Print house: Cardoza Publishing

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A complete hand-by-hand analysis of heads-up championship play against the best players in the world shows how to beat opponents at heads-up poker.

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You’ll learn how two of the best heads-up tournament players think through every decision in more than 600 hands as they battle their way to the final round in the prestigious NBC Heads-Up Championship. You’ll see their cards and hear their thoughts through twelve matches as they devise masterful strategies to defeat world-class opponents. Annie Duke and Vanessa Rousso give you a powerful mix of the practice, theory, and strategies for heads-up tournaments—where you must risk chips on every hand you’re dealt—and show you what they did to beat the best players in the world. You’ll see what works and what doesn’t as amazing bluffs and poorly executed tactics are deconstructed. You’ll learn how to design a game plan for each opponent, how to adjust your plan as the match progresses, how to play against pros and amateurs alike, and how to get the best of it against superior opponents. Their detailed analysis of when to change your strategy due to fluctuating chip counts, the flow of the match, and dynamic maneuvers make this book the bible of heads-up play.