Professional No Limit Hold'em Topics and Sections

The table of contents for Ed Miller's new book have been released. Here's a condensed version:

The No Limit Basics

1. Odds and Outs: Pot Odds, Outs, Discounted Outs, Outs and Odds, Implied Odds


2. Bet Sizes Absolute Versus Relative Dollars: Betting the “Pot,” What Size is Best?


3. Stack Sizes: The Table Stakes Rule, Consequences of the Table Stakes Rule, No-Limit Should Be Called Stack-Limit, Effective Stack Sizes, Stack Sizes and Strategy, Stack Sizes and Hand Descriptions, Short Medium and Deep Stacks, Why Do We Care About Short Versus Deep Stack Sizes?

The No Limit Fundamentals

1. Pot Size: Risk Versus Reward, Win Money Not Pots, Big Pots Versus Small Pots, How To Play a Big Pot


2. Commitment


3. Pot Control


4. Position


5. Hand Reading


6. Practice

The No Limit REM Process

1. The REM Process — R is for Range of Hands
   
   
   
   1. Know Your Opponents, Observe Their Tendencies: Preflop Standards, Betting Patterns or Amounts in Various Situations, Particular Actions on Specific Streets or with Specific Hand Types, Physical Tells, Betting Pace
   
   
   2. Reassess
   
   
   3. Position and Hand Reading
   
   
   
   


2. The REM Process — E is for Equity
   
   
   
   1. Calculating Equity Against a Range of Hands
   
   
   2. Shortcuts
   
   
   3. Folding Equity
   
   
   
   


3. The REM Process — M is for Maximize
   
   
   
   1. The Effect of Checking
   
   
   2. Reasons To Bet or Raise: Value Betting When You Want Them In, Bluffing When You Want Them Out, When You’re Not Sure
   
   
   3. Folding, Calling, or Raising With Drawing Hands
   
   
   
   


4. REM in Action

Planning Poker Hands Around Commitment

1. The Commitment Threshold: The Commitment Threshold Threat, Timing of the Commitment Threshold, When You Are Not Committed, Exceptions, When You Are Committed, Multiway Pots, Hand Examples


2. Stack-To-Pot Ratios: Balancing Risk Versus Reward, A Hand Without A Plan, A Mental Barrier


3. Planning For Commitment: Max SPRs and Target SPRs


4. Playing Top Pair with SPR: SPR Makes Postflop Play Easier, Top Pairs Have Triskaidekaphobia, Two Pot-Sized Bets Is Better, Four Is Often Better Than Three


5. Target SPRs


6. Estimating Target SPRs: Hand Strength, Opponent Tendencies, Target SPRs For Specific Hands Against Different, Opponents, Top Pair/Overpair, Target Practice, When You Can’t Hit Your Target, Playing With High SPRs, Drawing Hands, Drawing Hands Work With Middle or High SPRs


7. Evaluating Starting Hands: Overpair Hands, Top Pair Hands, Drawing Hands


8. Creating Target SPRs: Background On Preflop Raising, Variables Affecting SPRs, Mixing It Up, Shortcuts


9. Target SPR Examples


10. Making Adjustments: Multiway Pots, Reraised Pots and Limped Pots, Adjusting to Multiple Different Stack Sizes, Getting Money In Preflop With The Best Hand, Playing with Position, Coordinated Boards, Maximizing Postflop, Adjusting to New Information


11. When SPR Doesn’t Work: Some Opponents Don’t Cooperate, Some SPR Strategies Don’t Work With Certain Stack Sizes, You Need Some All-Ins


12. Using SPR to Choose Postflop Betting Lines


13. Betting to Get All-in

No Limit Hold'em Planning in Practice

No-Limit Hold'em Rules and Etiquette