Ebook: Easy Game. Making Sense of No Limit Hold ‘em. Vol. 1

There are a lot of books about poker, particularly about the game that has become a
modern phenomenon: No-Limit Texas Hold ’em. The legend Doyle Brunson describes the game
as the Cadillac of poker because the nature of the game allows for so much creativity. The
ability to bet any amount at any time makes the game both attractive and dangerous at once—
unlike Limit games, where the wager is fixed and only a few bets can go in each round, in No-
Limit all it takes is one big mistake and suddenly you’re out of a stack of chips.
The key word to focus on is mistake. David Sklansky’s The Theory of Poker spells out
the Fundamental Theorem of Poker. It says, essentially, that whoever makes the most (and
biggest) mistakes loses, and conversely whoever makes the least (and smallest) mistakes wins.
It’s incredible how many poker players—even good players, and some great ones—ignore this
concept and constantly make suboptimal plays. We’ll talk about this in more detail later.