No Limit: The Texas Hold ‘Em Guide to Winning in Business - Rilegato

Donald G. Krause (Macomb, MS) provides consulting services for major clients including Walt Disney Corporation and CSX Transportation. He is the author of the bestseller,The Art of War for Executives.

Jeff Carter (Charlotte, NC) is a technology executive with one of the largest banks in the world and provides strategic guidance to companies around the world.

CONTENTS

1 Why Use the Poker Paradigm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2 Poker 101: The Concepts of Texas

Hold ‘em Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

PART ONE: POSITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

3 Building Confidence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4 Anger, Frustration, and Fear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 37

5 The Role of Luck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

6 Using Logic to Make Good Decisions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

7 Avoiding Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

8 Requirements, Risk, and Reward . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 75

PART TWO: OPPORTUNITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 85

9 The Land of OZ: Classifying Players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

10 Getting to Know You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

11 Pre-Flop Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

PART THREE: KINETICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

12 Evaluating the Flop: I. Reading Pocket Cards. . . . . . . . . . 119

13 Evaluating the Flop: II. Reading the Board,

Counting Outs, and Computing Pot Odds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

14 Evaluating the Flop: III. Playing Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

15 The SWORD in Hand: Tactics I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

16 The SWORD in Hand: Tactics II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

17 The SWORD in Hand: Tactics III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

PART FOUR: END GAME AND RESULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177

18 Drowning in the River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179

19 Dimensions of Bluffing: I. Bluffing in Hold ‘Em . . . . . . . . . . .186

20 Dimensions of Bluffing:

II. Bluffing in Interpersonal Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

21 Survival of the Fittest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Appendix A: Texas Hold ‘Em Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213

Appendix B: Pocket Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Appendix C: The Thirty-Six Stratagems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223