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Exploitative Play in Live Poker: How to Manipulate Your Opponents into Making Mistakes
Many poker players can make good decisions at the table with a reasonable frequency. Nevertheless, there are numerous situations where even very experienced players behave in predictable ways. These deeply-ingrained habits lead them to make mistakes. The problem is that these situations won't often arise at the table by chance - you have to make them happen. Exploitative Play in Live Poker is a ground-breaking work that teaches you how to create the circumstances where your opponents will be likely to blunder and how to exploit them when they do.
To achieve this you will need to put to one side starting-hand charts, balance, and GTO (Game Theory Optimal) play. Instead you will incorporate new concepts that may well place you outside your comfort zone. However, your style will now be forcing the other players at the table outside of their comfort zone and, unlike you, they won't know how to adapt.
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Counter the auto-continuation-bettor Develop a powerful donk-betting strategy Use the overbet, the check-raise, and the three-barrel effectively As well as being a highly successful player, Alex Fitzgerald runs a poker consultancy that serves more than 1,000 professional poker players in 60 countries. As part of this work, he has very likely trawled through more hand history databases than anyone else. This gives him a unique insight into how players really play, especially when placed under pressure and forced into unfamiliar situations.
To achieve this you will need to put to one side starting-hand charts, balance, and GTO (Game Theory Optimal) play. Instead you will incorporate new concepts that may well place you outside your comfort zone. However, your style will now be forcing the other players at the table outside of their comfort zone and, unlike you, they won't know how to adapt.
Learn how
Counter the auto-continuation-bettor Develop a powerful donk-betting strategy Use the overbet, the check-raise, and the three-barrel effectively As well as being a highly successful player, Alex Fitzgerald runs a poker consultancy that serves more than 1,000 professional poker players in 60 countries. As part of this work, he has very likely trawled through more hand history databases than anyone else. This gives him a unique insight into how players really play, especially when placed under pressure and forced into unfamiliar situations.
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Published January 18, 2019
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December 1, 2018
This is the poker book I have been waiting for. And I’m not saying this because Alex is a good friend of mine, or because he mentions me in the book. I believe the title should have been “The secrets pro poker players and poker coaches are not telling you”. I wish the price was 10x what it is so less people would be getting this info.
Be warned, this book is not for beginners. You will need a good fundamental understanding of poker strategy, GTO play and poker math, even though this book shows you how to NOT use GTO play. If you need to learn this stuff first, start with “The Myth of Poker Talent”.
There will be many people who will not like this book, mostly fallen heroes. But those who are willing to look in the mirror, and decide to play poker to win, and not to fit in, will definitely benefit, and most likely start winning ( or winning more) if they take the time to study the tools and plays in this book.
I can honestly see this being the last poker book I will need to buy and study.
Be warned, this book is not for beginners. You will need a good fundamental understanding of poker strategy, GTO play and poker math, even though this book shows you how to NOT use GTO play. If you need to learn this stuff first, start with “The Myth of Poker Talent”.
There will be many people who will not like this book, mostly fallen heroes. But those who are willing to look in the mirror, and decide to play poker to win, and not to fit in, will definitely benefit, and most likely start winning ( or winning more) if they take the time to study the tools and plays in this book.
I can honestly see this being the last poker book I will need to buy and study.
November 28, 2018
Alex Fitzgerald has done it again. Exploitative Play is a superb follow up to his first book, The Myth of Poker Talent (it's also a great poker book if you haven't read it). Alex uses an easy to read writing style in Exploitative Play which makes it easy on the reader to follow and study his methods. If you are a serious poker player, a dedicated recreational player or even a novice you can get a lot of this book that you can bring right to the poker tables. I own all of Ed Miller and Jonathan Little's books and Fitzgerald's Exploitative Play belongs right up there with those authors finest works.
November 23, 2018
Great Book - Alex puts you in the villians place and gives you many ideas on how to beat him in common situations - tells you the details when the particular play will work and not work. The best part is this is not based on today'sd popular Theory but on the study of actual poker Players databases, i.e. it is based on actual results. Well worth the read!!! Got me to think in depth about the game.
November 22, 2018
This is a welcome continuation of Alex's excellent contributions to the poker world. Real world player with the analytics to back it up, not just theory and opinion. Do yourself a favorof you want to improve and get this book.
Craig Smith
Craig Smith
April 9, 2022
I would have given the book three stars if it wasnt for the grammatical errors - any decent editor would have fixed the issues.
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