PLAY OPTIMAL POKER SERIES
PLAY OPTIMAL POKER
Think game theory is abstract and incomprehensible? Think again!
Play Optimal Poker shatters the myth that game theory is only for elite poker players. Renowned poker pro and coach Andrew Brokos takes you step-by-step through the fundamentals, explaining core game theory principles and how to apply them in real poker situations. Whether you play small stakes or high stakes, cash games or tournaments, Play Optimal Poker provides powerful new tools to help you navigate tricky situations, hold your own against the toughest competition, and exploit common mistakes. Once you understand the fundamentals of game theory, you’ll approach the poker table with the confidence to handle anything the game can throw at you.
You will learn how to:
- Use powerful game theory concepts like equilibrium and indifference
- Apply game theory principles to everyday poker decisions
- Build polarized and condensed ranges
- Profit from both aggression and passivity
- Manipulate your ranges to exploit common mistakes
- Hold your own against world-class opponents
As a coach and host of the popular Thinking Poker Podcast, Andrew is widely regarded for his ability to explain complex concepts in terms anyone can understand.
Also available professionally translated to Spanish, Japanese, French and Korean.
PLAY OPTIMAL POKER 2
Play Optimal Poker 2 is here! POP2 compounds on the lesson of the best-selling Play Optimal Poker. In POP2 renowned poker pro and coach Andrew Brokos demonstrates how to construct the right ranges for any situation.
By investigating real no-limit hold ‘em scenarios, you’ll learn to select hands that perform well individually but also complement one another, amplifying each other’s strengths and compensating for each other’s weaknesses. In the process, you’ll explore powerful concepts including: bet sizing, equity denial, equity realization, balance, leverage, board coverage and exploitative play.
Whether you play tournaments or cash games, high stakes or low, online or live, you’ll gain fresh insights into the game you love. Real world examples demonstrate how to make the best decision every time, so you can reel in the biggest fish and hold your own when swimming with the sharks!
THEORY AND APPLICATION
Game theory isn’t just about playing differently, it’s about thinking differently. Once you understand the fundamentals of game theory, you’ll approach the poker table with the confidence to handle anything the game can throw at you.
APPLICABLE IN EVERY GAME
Whether you play small stakes or high stakes, cash games or tournaments, Play Optimal Poker 1 & 2 provide powerful new tools to help you navigate tricky situations, hold your own against the toughest competition, and exploit common mistakes.
A Teaching approach
Andrew takes you step-by-step through the fundamentals of game theory as it applies to poker, teaching you how to understand and use the most valuable principles in your game.
RAVE REVIEWS FOR P.O.P.
"Easily the best poker strategy book I've read, and I've read a lot of books. Really breaks down a GTO/Equilibrium to it's simplest form to make it easy to understand than applies what you learned to real life scenarios. The biggest take away you will get from this book is the "standard" plays you've been making your whole poker playing career probably suck and the non standard plays you've been told are bad are actually far superior"
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"...Too many decent recreational players are only decent because they figured out the exploitative strategies to beat their small-stakes player pool, but don't really understand---at a deep level---why those strategies work. And why they can't figure out how to beat the better players. This book breaks down, clearly and concisely, how those recreational exploitative strategies fit into the larger playing surface of optimal and exploitative play..." read full review on Amazon
"This book takes complex theories that have seemed out of touch and only for the .000001% of truly elite, high-roller, robotic poker players, and turns them in to digestible, relatable, and understandable practice for your real-world home games or local card rooms. Most poker books give common sense advice for easy concepts and prescriptive advice for more advanced concepts. This book is the opposite, it trusts the reader and challenges them to learn the concepts and develop your own strategies" read full review on Amazon
STRATEGY ANTHOLOGIES
Essential Poker concepts
This volume collects eighteen classic essays on timeless strategy concepts such as range analysis, bluffing, bluff-catching, and game selection. Each offers a quick hit of poker theory in clear, accessible language, with a dash of humor mixed in. Reading these essays is as fun as it is profitable! demonstrate how to make the best decision every time, so you can reel in the biggest fish and hold your own when swimming with the sharks!
Essential Poker concepts - Volume 2
This volume collects twenty-one classic poker essays, many of which introduce concepts Andrew later explored with greater rigor in his Play Optimal Poker series. These essays provide practical, accessible heuristics for thinking about hand reading, goal setting, range analysis, incentives, and more. Each offers a quick hit of poker theory with a dash of humor, so reading them is as fun as it is profitable!
STORYTELLING COLLECTIONS
THINKING POKER DIARIES
Catch up on all the stories, strategy, and excitement from Andrew’s first four years at the World Series of Poker, including his 35th place finish in the 2008 Main Event with this e-book only series, available on Amazon or the Nitcast store.
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about the author
Andrew Brokos
Andrew Brokos has been a professional poker player for more than fifteen years, with hundreds of thousands in cash game winnings, final tables in major online tournament series, and three Top 100 finishes in the World Series of Poker Main Event.
As a coach and host of the popular Thinking Poker Podcast, Andrew is widely regarded for his ability to explain complex concepts in terms anyone can understand.