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Welcome to the WBZ Book Club.This is Jordan. I'm not one who
frequents casinos and I'm not a pokerplayer, but I found this book pretty
interesting. It's called Essential Poker Math, the expanded edition Fundamental, no limit
hold of mathematics you need to know. The author is Alton Harden. In
the book, you'll find seventy fivecarefully devised practice and example poker hands with
quite a bit of analysis from theexperts. The book teaches you about poker
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math, and what you find outis that fundamental poker math is not that
hard to learn, and according tothe author, it will transform the game
and allow you to outplay your opponents. When you understand essential poker math,
you learn to calculate the pot oddsand implied odds at the table, use
pot equity in the rule of twoand four. Understand how to properly set
mine steal and three bet bluff withbasic mathematics. Learn the math behind bluffs
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and hero calls. Understand how touse expected value or ev both on and
off the table to set your strategy. Basically, to improve your game and
win more hands. Essential Poker Mathby Alton Harden, and that's the book
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