Authors: "B Hoehn, F. Southey & R.C. Holte"

Year of 1st edition: 2007

Language: "English"

Excerpt: "Uncertainty in poker stems from two key sources, the shuffled deck and an adversary whose strategy is unknown. One approach is to find a pessimistic game theoretic solution, but human players have weakness that can be exploited if a model of their strategy can be learned by observing their play. However, games against humans last for at most a few hundred hands so learning must be fast to be effective." "B Hoehn, F. Southey & R.C. Holte, 2007:5"

Author: "William T. Love"

Year of 1st edition: 2009

Language: "English"

Excerpt: "Many historians and experts have various ideas as to the origin of poker. the only thing we can be sure of is that poker´s present day form was derived from many different games. Since its beginning, poker has gone trough many changes. Many speculate, tough, that the game has been around for many centuries. The most popular belief is that poker was invented around 900 A.D. by the chinese." "William T. Love, 2009:2"

Book nº 13 Title: "Full Tilt Poker - Tips from the Pro"

Authors: "Professional players from Full Tilt"

Year of 1st edition: 2005

Language: "English"

Excerpt: "It is very difficult to calculate the exact odds of hitting a drawing hand when you´re sitting at the poker table. Unless you are a genius with a gift for mathematics like Chris Ferguson, you will not be able to do it. That leaves two options for the rest of us: The first option is to sit at home with a calculator, figure out the odds for every possible combination of draws, and then memorize them. That way, no matter what situation comes up, you always know the odds. But for those of us without a perfect memory, there´s an easier way...." "Clonie Glowen, 2005:2"

Book nº 14 Title: "Game Theory And AI - A Unified Approach To Poker Games"

Author: "Frans Oliehoek"

Year of 1st edition: 2005

Language: "English"

Excerpt: "This thesis focuses on decision making in partially observable card games and, in particular, poker games. An attempt is made to outline both the game theoretic, as an agent-centric approach to such games, analyzing differences and similarities, as well as strong and weaker points and finally proposing a view to make a tradeoff between these." "Frans Oliehoek, 2005:2"

Book nº 15 Title: "Golden Rules of Poker"

Language: "English"

Excerpt: "The First Golden Rule of Poker: Maximize the size of the pots that you win; minimize the amount of your money in the pots that you lose. The Second Golden Rule of Poker: When deciding wether or no to call, factor the amount of money being asked of you in relation to the amount of money in the pot"

Book nº 16 Title: "Harrington On Hold'em (Volume 1; Strategic Play)"

Author: "Dan Harrington"

Year of 1st edition: 2004

Language: "English"

Excerpt: "Much of the real value of these book lie in the sample hands, which are collected at the end of each chapter. You should treat these hands as small quizzes, and try to answer the questions before moving on to the explanations. It would be easy to read trough the text and convince yourself that, of course, you would have made exactly that play at the table, but you will find the explanations much more informative if you wrestle with the questions on your own first." "Dan Harrington, 2004:4"

Book nº 17 Title: "Harrington On Hold'em (Volume 2; The Endgame)"

Author: "Dan Harrington"

Year of 1st edition: 2006

Language: "English"

Excerpt: "Bluffing is a pretty straightforward idea. You have a weak hand, but you bet anyway, pretending to have a strong one, If your opponent believes you, you take down a pot. In this section I will outline some very specific bluffing moves that have a better-than-average chance of sucess.." "Dan Harrington, 2006:7"

Book nº 18 Title: "Harrington On Hold'em (Volume 3; The Workbook)"

Author: "Dan Harrington"

Year of 1st edition: 2008

Language: "English"

Excerpt: "In volumes I and II we gave a pretty complete overview of how no-limit hold´em tournaments should be played. This book is a companion volume to the first two. It consists of fifty problems from no-limit hold´em tournaments, both live and online. Some of the problems are fairly simple, illustrating and reinforcing points covered in the first two volumes." "Dan Harrington, 2008:8"

Book nº 19 Title: "Hold'em Brain"

Author: "King Yao"

Year of 1st edition: 2004

Language: "English"

Excerpt: "The steps that Hold´em players takes to learn the game resembles the process of human evolution. Players must master the previous steps in order to develope to the next step. Most players get stuck along the evolutionary path and fail to adapt. Others learn the use of the necessary tools, adapt to their enviroment and move to the next stage." "King Yao, 2004:1"

Book nº 20 Title: "Hold'em Poker For Advanced Players"

Authors: "David Sklansky & Mason Malmuth"

Year of 1st edition: 1997

Language: "English"

Excerpt: "Texas Hold´em is an extremely complicated form of poker. This is because the exact manner in which a hand should be played is often debatable. It is not uncommon to hear two expert players argue the pros and cons of a certain strategy." "Mason Malmuth, 1997:1"

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