具体描述
In 2003 poker was put on television and no-limit hold em quickly became the most popular form of poker played in casinos, public cardrooms, and on the Internet. At first, because of the newness of the game to most participants, they could be easily be beaten by players with only a moderate knowledge of sophisticated strategy. But today, this is no longer the case.
Even though no-limit hold em is not, from a Game Theory perspective, a solved game, many ideas and concepts which come from this branch of mathematics now play an important role in a strong, winning no-limit hold em strategy. But it s also important for the expert player to know when to leave what is known about optimal play and switch to exploitative strategies to maximize his profit. And this brings us to No-Limit Hold em for Advanced Players, Emphasis on Tough Games by Matthew Janda.
In this text, Janda spends much time discussing sophisticated strategies that should be employed against tough opposition, some of which has never been published before. He then supports his ideas with the modern advanced software programs of PokerSnowie and PioSOLVER. Topics covered include, but not limited to, Linear, Condensed, and Polarized Ranges, Raising First In As the Button, Understanding High Variance Plays, Turn Play and Overbets, Understanding Counter Strategies, Opening Frequencies Based on Stack Depth, Playing Short in Button vs Big Blind Situations, and Denying Your Opponents Equity While Realizing Ours.
作者简介
Matthew Janda has had an interest in card games his entire life, and began playing poker with friends in high school before playing online cash games in college. While originally studying business economics at UCLA, a game theory course sparked his interest in poker theory and optimal play.
After Black Friday in 2011, Matt began transitioning from playing poker to pursuing medicine. He s now a 4th year podiatry student at Samuel Merritt University and studying to be a podiatric surgeon. While he has much less time for poker now than he did in the past, discussing poker theory remains his favorite hobby as it s too enjoyable to realistically call it a job. He currently makes theory oriented videos for CardRunners and teaches math and poker theory to players from all around the world.
This is his second book for Two Plus Two Publishing LLC. His first book, Applications of No-Limit Hold em; a Guide to Understanding Theoretical Sound Poker, was well received and is considered one of the most important book in this field by many players.
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这本书的排版和装帧简直是一场灾难，拿到手的时候就感觉像是从哪个廉价的地下印刷厂里匆匆忙忙赶出来的。纸张的质量粗糙得令人发指，拿到手上油腻腻的，油墨的味道久久不散，读起来眼睛非常容易疲劳。更别提目录的排版了，简直是毫无逻辑可言，章节之间的跳转生硬又突兀，仿佛是不同作者在不同的时间段用不同的软件拼凑出来的草稿。而且，书中插图的质量简直让人怀疑作者是不是连最基础的图像处理都不懂，那些用来示意牌局的图表模糊不清，关键的牌型标识经常被裁切掉，让人在试图理解复杂概念时，不得不花费大量精力去猜测作者到底想表达什么。说实话，这种制作水准，完全配不上它所宣称的“高级”内容，更像是对认真学习的玩家的一种冒犯。我怀疑出版社在出版前根本就没有进行过任何校对或质量控制，简直是对阅读体验的践踏。如果只是想找一本能读的书，而不是一件需要修复的文物，我绝对不会推荐这本书的实体版本。
这本书的“高级”策略部分更是让人啼笑皆非，充满了过时的、基于松散直觉而非现代GTO（Game Theory Optimal，博弈论最优）模型的判断。我发现作者在讨论3-Bet（再加注）的频率和范围构建时，仍然停留在早期扑克时代的保守思维定式中，完全没有考虑现代线上高额桌上对手的平均剥削强度和对位的复杂性。例如，他对特定位置上面对Open-Raise时的冷跟（Cold Call）范围的建议，在当前软件模拟的结果看来，存在明显的负EV漏洞。这就像是拿着一本五十年代的战术手册来指导今天的F1赛车手一样，很多操作在理论上已经站不住脚了。一个声称是为“高级玩家”准备的教材，理应对最新的理论进展有所涉猎，哪怕只是批判性地讨论它们。这本书在这方面显得极其保守和滞后，它教你的更多是“如何稳定地少输一点”，而不是“如何最大化你的收益”。对于那些希望将自己的游戏提升到精英水平的人来说，这本书提供的知识体系恐怕会成为进步的阻碍。
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我花了整整一个下午试图理解其中关于EV（期望值）计算的章节，结果发现作者对一些核心公式的解释简直是云里雾里，充满了含糊不清的术语和跳跃性的逻辑推导。他似乎默认读者已经对概率论和高等数学有着炉火纯青的掌握，却完全没有提供任何必要的复习或基础回顾。举个例子，他在讨论“动态范围下的最小化损失”时，突然引入了一个他称之为“Z-因子”的概念，但对这个因子是如何从基础公式推导出来的只是一笔带过，甚至连必要的脚注都没有。这对于一个期望从书中获得系统性学习的读者来说，是极其令人沮丧的。我不得不一遍又一遍地查阅外部的专业资源来反向工程他的思路，这完全违背了购买一本教学书籍的初衷——我们是来学习的，而不是来做侦探工作的。这本书与其说是教学指南，不如说是一位已经功力深厚的大师对自己内心所思的零散记录，对于初学者或中级玩家来说，它提供的帮助少之又少，带来的更多是困惑和挫败感。
本书的索引系统简直是设计的败笔，完全无法用于快速查找特定信息。如果你想回顾一下作者关于“面对Check-Raise时的后手跟注倾向”的论述，你可能需要浏览好几个看似相关的章节，因为他似乎更喜欢将同一个主题分散到不同的语境下反复提及，而不是提供一个清晰的结构化索引。我尝试使用索引查找“剥削性下注尺寸”，结果索引指向了一个关于“对手心理画像”的章节，而真正的核心讨论却分散在另一个关于“翻牌后持续下注频率”的远端章节里。这种混乱的组织结构，使得这本书在作为一本“参考工具书”时，几乎失去了所有实用价值。我们学习策略是为了能更快地在牌桌上应用，而不是花时间去解构作者令人困惑的文本结构。它更像是一份未经编辑的个人笔记合集，而不是一本为读者精心打磨的教学材料，极大地阻碍了知识的有效吸收和回顾。
终于看完一本书了
扑克问题本质上是数学问题，数学问题终究是有解的，所以计算机终究能解开最完美的打法，因此，人类玩家最完美的打法就是模仿并记住机器的打法
终于看完一本书了
终于看完一本书了
终于看完一本书了
