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No-Limit Hold'em - Teoria e Prática
O no-limit hold’em está explodindo em popularidade. Antes de 2000, podia ser difícil encontrar um jogo. Em 2009, ele é jogado em todo lugar — em salas de cartas de cassinos, nas casas e na Internet.
Hoje qualquer um consegue achar um jogo, mas poucos sabem como jogar bem. A maioria dos jogadores aprende vendo na televisão ou seguindo os conselhos duvidosos de seus amigos. Embora muitos jogadores possam ter conseguido algumas migalhas aqui e ali, a maioria deles tem duas opções: aprender ou quebrar.
O maior teórico de poker do mundo, David Sklansky, e a notável autoridade de poker Ed Miller vão lhe ensinar bem depressa. No-Limit Hold’em: Teoria e Prática é o trabalho definitivo sobre esse complexo jogo. Ele lhe fornece acesso à mente dos experts, ensinando-lhe em termos diretos e agradáveis os comos e porquês do jogo vencedor.
O livro cobre conceitos críticos como manipular o tamanho do pote, ajustar-se corretamente de acordo com os tamanhos dos estoques, ganhar a batalha de erros, ler mãos e induzir os oponentes a jogar mal. A obra lhe instrui sobre implied odds e como dimensionar suas apostas e aumentos com eficiência. E aborda até mesmo muitos princípios do jogo short stacked que vão lhe dar uma grande vantagem em torneios de no-limit hold’em.
Nunca antes tantas pessoas jogaram no-limit hold’em, e nunca antes houve uma oportunidade tão grande de ganhar muito. Se você quiser sua parcela dos lucros, leia esse livro!
Hoje qualquer um consegue achar um jogo, mas poucos sabem como jogar bem. A maioria dos jogadores aprende vendo na televisão ou seguindo os conselhos duvidosos de seus amigos. Embora muitos jogadores possam ter conseguido algumas migalhas aqui e ali, a maioria deles tem duas opções: aprender ou quebrar.
O maior teórico de poker do mundo, David Sklansky, e a notável autoridade de poker Ed Miller vão lhe ensinar bem depressa. No-Limit Hold’em: Teoria e Prática é o trabalho definitivo sobre esse complexo jogo. Ele lhe fornece acesso à mente dos experts, ensinando-lhe em termos diretos e agradáveis os comos e porquês do jogo vencedor.
O livro cobre conceitos críticos como manipular o tamanho do pote, ajustar-se corretamente de acordo com os tamanhos dos estoques, ganhar a batalha de erros, ler mãos e induzir os oponentes a jogar mal. A obra lhe instrui sobre implied odds e como dimensionar suas apostas e aumentos com eficiência. E aborda até mesmo muitos princípios do jogo short stacked que vão lhe dar uma grande vantagem em torneios de no-limit hold’em.
Nunca antes tantas pessoas jogaram no-limit hold’em, e nunca antes houve uma oportunidade tão grande de ganhar muito. Se você quiser sua parcela dos lucros, leia esse livro!
303 pages, Paperback
First published May 30, 2006
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About the author
David Sklansky
74 books56 followersSklansky was born and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he graduated from Teaneck High School in 1966.[2] He attended the University of Pennsylvania, but left before graduation. He returned to Teaneck and passed multiple Society of Actuaries exams by the time he was 20, and worked for an actuarial firm.[3]
Sklansky is generally considered[by whom?] a top authority on gambling. He has written many books on poker, blackjack, and general gambling.
Sklansky has won three World Series of Poker bracelets, two in 1982 ($800 Mixed Doubles, and $1000 Draw Hi) and one in 1983 ($1000 Limit Omaha Hi). He also won the Poker By The Book invitational event on the 2004 World Poker Tour, outlasting Phil Hellmuth Jr, Mike Caro, T. J. Cloutier, and Mike Sexton, and then finally overcoming Doyle Brunson.[4]
Sklansky attended the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania for a year before leaving to become a professional gambler.[5] He briefly took on a job as an actuary before embarking into poker. While on the job he discovered a faster way to do some of the calculations and took that discovery to his boss. The boss told him he could go ahead and do it that way if he wanted but wouldn’t pass on the information to the other workers. "In other words, I knew something no one else knew, but I got no recognition for it," Sklansky is quoted as saying in Al Alvarez's The Biggest Game in Town. "In poker, if you're better than anyone else, you make immediate money. If there's something I know about the game that the other person doesn't, and if he's not willing to learn or can't understand, then I take his money."
Sklansky resides in Henderson, Nevada.
Sklansky is generally considered[by whom?] a top authority on gambling. He has written many books on poker, blackjack, and general gambling.
Sklansky has won three World Series of Poker bracelets, two in 1982 ($800 Mixed Doubles, and $1000 Draw Hi) and one in 1983 ($1000 Limit Omaha Hi). He also won the Poker By The Book invitational event on the 2004 World Poker Tour, outlasting Phil Hellmuth Jr, Mike Caro, T. J. Cloutier, and Mike Sexton, and then finally overcoming Doyle Brunson.[4]
Sklansky attended the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania for a year before leaving to become a professional gambler.[5] He briefly took on a job as an actuary before embarking into poker. While on the job he discovered a faster way to do some of the calculations and took that discovery to his boss. The boss told him he could go ahead and do it that way if he wanted but wouldn’t pass on the information to the other workers. "In other words, I knew something no one else knew, but I got no recognition for it," Sklansky is quoted as saying in Al Alvarez's The Biggest Game in Town. "In poker, if you're better than anyone else, you make immediate money. If there's something I know about the game that the other person doesn't, and if he's not willing to learn or can't understand, then I take his money."
Sklansky resides in Henderson, Nevada.
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May 6, 2016
I'm going to have to come back to this and reread it (probably multiple times) to absorb all the lessons. Everything is laid out in very clear and explainable fashion, but there is so much to keep track of when you are actually playing.
My own poker game has only started to improve slightly (I still only play in a bar poker league), and the problem with poker is that you can only tell if you're actually getting better over a long period of time, since anyone can have a lucky or unlucky streak. David Sklansky and Ed Miller run you through the poker basics, like Expected Value and pot odds, and then provide a lot of a practical advice taking into account all the various factors that need to be considered.
Which is probably what keeps most people from becoming good poker players, because once you get past basics like "What are the odds of drawing to an inside straight" and "What is a semi-bluff?" it's a lot easier to keep playing by "intuition" (i.e., losing) than to actually master the mathematical strategies that lead to better results over the long term. And of course, even if you master the math, you can never crunch the numbers perfectly for any given situation, because too much is variable.
This book will get you started, though. How to bet differently depending on position, pot size, stack size, and type of game. When to play tight and when to play loose. The exact odds you need to know when to go all-in in a heads-up match. There are a lot of clearly drawn examples of when a check, raise, bluff, semi-bluff, check-raise, or fold is most profitable, bearing in mind that all such calculations are again, highly dependent on many more variables than just what cards you have, and that even a mathematical genius like David Sklansky doesn't actually crunch these numbers with this precision in his head. (At least, I don't think he does.)
Some of the more valuable, if elementary chapters are those on bluffing and semi-bluffing, and on multiple levels of thinking. (I.e., thinking about more than just what you have, but what you think your opponent has, and what you think your opponent thinks you have, and what you think your opponent thinks you think he has, and so on.)
This is really a foundational poker book. I checked it out from the library, but I'm sure I'm going to acquire my own copy.
It covers No Limit, with only a few notes here and there pointing out how NL differs from Limit Hold'Em. It doesn't distinguish much between cash games and tournaments, other than a few observations about when you might change your strategy slightly for a tournament (i.e., when simply surviving longer may be more advantageous than a move that is mathematically more profitable, but riskier).
My own poker game has only started to improve slightly (I still only play in a bar poker league), and the problem with poker is that you can only tell if you're actually getting better over a long period of time, since anyone can have a lucky or unlucky streak. David Sklansky and Ed Miller run you through the poker basics, like Expected Value and pot odds, and then provide a lot of a practical advice taking into account all the various factors that need to be considered.
Which is probably what keeps most people from becoming good poker players, because once you get past basics like "What are the odds of drawing to an inside straight" and "What is a semi-bluff?" it's a lot easier to keep playing by "intuition" (i.e., losing) than to actually master the mathematical strategies that lead to better results over the long term. And of course, even if you master the math, you can never crunch the numbers perfectly for any given situation, because too much is variable.
This book will get you started, though. How to bet differently depending on position, pot size, stack size, and type of game. When to play tight and when to play loose. The exact odds you need to know when to go all-in in a heads-up match. There are a lot of clearly drawn examples of when a check, raise, bluff, semi-bluff, check-raise, or fold is most profitable, bearing in mind that all such calculations are again, highly dependent on many more variables than just what cards you have, and that even a mathematical genius like David Sklansky doesn't actually crunch these numbers with this precision in his head. (At least, I don't think he does.)
Some of the more valuable, if elementary chapters are those on bluffing and semi-bluffing, and on multiple levels of thinking. (I.e., thinking about more than just what you have, but what you think your opponent has, and what you think your opponent thinks you have, and what you think your opponent thinks you think he has, and so on.)
This is really a foundational poker book. I checked it out from the library, but I'm sure I'm going to acquire my own copy.
It covers No Limit, with only a few notes here and there pointing out how NL differs from Limit Hold'Em. It doesn't distinguish much between cash games and tournaments, other than a few observations about when you might change your strategy slightly for a tournament (i.e., when simply surviving longer may be more advantageous than a move that is mathematically more profitable, but riskier).
July 30, 2016
I consider this the seminal book on no-limit hold 'em to come out after Supersystem.
This book can teach you more about the game than any other, it's that simple. I've read it like three times, and probably will again soon.
The beauty of this book is that it sticks to fundamentals, without going off into the la-la-land of more recent books that base everything on "reads" and "ranges" based on reads....playing based on reads and ranges can be a folly of major proportions in no-limit, where one mistake costs your whole stack. Playing by rock-solid fundamentals (the ones in this book) should be the bedrock foundation of your game...period.
You can only put bad players on hands and ranges really. Good players are not predictable. Therefore, you have to rely on fundamental math and plays that don't really take this kind of thing into account.
Of course, over time, you will develop intuitions about situations, but books of more recent vintage that are based on this stuff are a waste of paper for the most part. That's what I think.
This book can teach you more about the game than any other, it's that simple. I've read it like three times, and probably will again soon.
The beauty of this book is that it sticks to fundamentals, without going off into the la-la-land of more recent books that base everything on "reads" and "ranges" based on reads....playing based on reads and ranges can be a folly of major proportions in no-limit, where one mistake costs your whole stack. Playing by rock-solid fundamentals (the ones in this book) should be the bedrock foundation of your game...period.
You can only put bad players on hands and ranges really. Good players are not predictable. Therefore, you have to rely on fundamental math and plays that don't really take this kind of thing into account.
Of course, over time, you will develop intuitions about situations, but books of more recent vintage that are based on this stuff are a waste of paper for the most part. That's what I think.
July 17, 2024
My poker textbook. It’s not gambling when I start winning
July 24, 2022
The only issue I had with Sklansky's first book (The Theory of Poker) was that its focus was not restricted to No-Limit – a lot of time was spent discussing various other poker variants that I wasn't very interested in.
This book improves on the old one in this regard. All the strategies and ideas discussed here are related specifically to N0-Limit, which is the main version of poker played both casually and in casinos.
The division is really well constructed – Sklansky begins with his "principles," essential ideas to keep in mind, before using them to explain various tips and strategies. It is definitely chunky, perhaps more so than The Theory of Poker, which means it takes a lot of time to get through.
I would go into more detail about some of the more interesting plays but, alas, too many of the people I play poker with have me added on Goodreads.
This book improves on the old one in this regard. All the strategies and ideas discussed here are related specifically to N0-Limit, which is the main version of poker played both casually and in casinos.
The division is really well constructed – Sklansky begins with his "principles," essential ideas to keep in mind, before using them to explain various tips and strategies. It is definitely chunky, perhaps more so than The Theory of Poker, which means it takes a lot of time to get through.
I would go into more detail about some of the more interesting plays but, alas, too many of the people I play poker with have me added on Goodreads.
June 10, 2017
One of the greatest advises you will get on No Limit Poker. I played the game for a quite some time as a recreational sport; I regret that have not read this book before. It will teach you all the tactics you need to learn, how to act on concrete situations and teaches you to think in the long run of playing it. Little by little you will gain a great knowledge of the professionals of Poker world. As a chess player I am so fond of this game, that after following their advice you finally understand the theoretical depths of the game, and in my personal experience, it reminds me the game of Chess, which you need to get into the mind of your opponent in the current situation. Like in Chess, there are countless moves you can perform on the table, and most importantly you can control the flow of the game by how you want to play it. So the knowledge of strategic moves itself makes this sport very seductive.
I would not suggest playing Poker, especially No limit, without reading this very informative book.
Good luck !
I would not suggest playing Poker, especially No limit, without reading this very informative book.
Good luck !
December 4, 2007
Most poker books pose the same challenge to readers: "After I have read this book, how do I make use of this information when I am actually sitting at the poker table?" To my way of thinking, books like this one--which focus on theory and general principles--are more practical than books focus on play of specific hands. I felt that this book was time well spent, and I'm sure that at some point I will read it again.
April 15, 2015
Miller's section on weak-tight players was good, and I liked the "Concepts" section at the end. The beginning felt kind of unhelpful though, with lots of assumptions (if we expect the opponent will call 60% of the time and raise 15% and...) I guess the idea is to show how different players dictate different actions, but I probably haven't played enough NLHE to get much out of it.
I might use it some day as reference if I end up playing more NL.
I might use it some day as reference if I end up playing more NL.
September 5, 2008
This book in not for beginners but it is a must read if you plan on playing No Limit seriously. This book got me thinking in a fundamentally different way about the game. The logic in this book is iron clad. There is a LOT of math which you will not be able to do at the table but it is important to understand the thought process.
November 28, 2012
Great book about no limit Hold'em (which is, in my opinion, the most interesting poker variant). Lots of discussion with examples about pot odds (actual and implied), value betting, and ways to quantify risk and reward that allow for you to play a deeper, better, and more complete poker game.
July 5, 2007
This book will teach you how very little you understand about No Limit Hold 'Em. Yes, I'm talking about you in the home game. You are lucky, not good.
August 4, 2019
Has the ability of great teachers to represent a complicated branching tree of statistical problems with a single overarching heuristic. It's hard, in a poker game, to figure out exactly what you need to do - but armed with the basic goal illustrated on the first page of the book, and a few of the tools it introduces along the way, you can derive the right action from first principles. Surprisingly applicable outside of a poker game, too - it doesn't explicitly say it, but if you can relate the poker situations it describes to other contexts of limited information and risk/reward, what it's delivering is more like philosophy than strategy.
November 17, 2021
A classic in the genre. Not only statistics and foxy teachings, but also the fundamental wisdom where they say they much hesitated to publish this, because someone could read and comprehend all of it, and still be not an improved poker player.
In other words: study, and learn, but only if you have a natural call for the game.
In other words: study, and learn, but only if you have a natural call for the game.
May 20, 2022
One of my all-time favorites and helped me a lot at the start of my poker journey. Clear examples with illustrations for different scenarios. Recommended. Note that some of the information outlined in this book is not ideal for most online poker games nowadays, however it definitely succeeds in making you think the right way.
July 26, 2025
One of the best books on no limit cash game (not tournament) poker. This is a good companion to Ed Miller's Professional No Limit Hold Em, but I got a lot more out of this from a theory and hand selection / play standpoint than Pro NLHE. Also, this gives you good tips on strategy adjustments to beat different types of common games you'll find.
October 30, 2025
his book offers a solid, thoughtful dive into the world of no-limit hold ’em it goes beyond “here’s what you should do” and instead helps explain why those decisions matter. While the writing sometimes gets a little heavy with theory, I found it highly valuable for improving my understanding of the game and feel it will pay off at the table.
June 17, 2019
'Theory' is the key word for this book. There are tactical bits along the way, but I think the value of this book lies in presenting core ideas and principles for how to think about no limit hold 'em. I plan to review parts of this book in a year or two as a refresher.
January 27, 2019
Good grounding in NLHEP
December 2, 2019
Amazing book for anyone wanting to learn the basics of modern Poker.
September 11, 2022
excellent! very digestible! helped me immensely
June 16, 2023
Good content, but some sections are less useful or clear than others. The overall structure is also haphazard, making the useful sections hard to find. The advice here seems solid and logical, but I find that Harrington’s books are better overall in both form and substance.
June 22, 2007
An excellent book to learn tactics for the game of Texas Hold-em NL cash game
March 17, 2010
Need Phd in math to understand.
June 11, 2016
This is Theory of Poker applied specifically to No Limit Holdem.
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