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Kill Everyone 2nd Edition
by Lee Nelson
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by Lee Nelson
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Table of Contents:
ForewordAuthor’s NoteIntroductionHow This Book Came About Part One—Early-Stage Play1 New School Versus Old School2 Specific Guidelines for Accumulating Chips Part Two—Endgame Strategy Introduction3 Basic Endgame Concepts4 Equilibrium Plays5 Kill Phil: The Next Generation6 Prize Pools and Equities7 Specific Strategies for Different Tournament Types8 Short-Handed and Heads-Up Play 9 Detailed Analysis of a Professional SNG Part Three—Other Topics10 Adjustments to Recent Changes in No-Limit Hold ’Em Tournaments11 Tournament Luck12 Playing Against Better Players13 Tells and Reads14 Tournament Preparation Part Four—Online Short-Handed No-Limit Hold ’Em Cash Games15 Online Short-Handed No-Limit Hold ’Em Cash Games16 Short-Stack Cash-Game Play Appendix I—Equilibrium Solution for Moving-In Far From the MoneyAppendix II—Equilibrium Calling Strategies for Far From the MoneyAppendix III—Assumed Rank Order for Pushing HandsAppendix IV—Assumed Rank Order for Calling HandsAppendix V—Limitations of ICMAppendix VI—Resources IndexAbout the Authors
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Author's Note
I was flattered by Elky’s excitement at the suggestion. He told me that he respected the ability of my co-authors and me to show poker from different angles, bringing innovative technical concepts to the game, exposing the pros’ strengths and weaknesses, and verifying a number of sophisticated concepts that had previously never been in print. In 2003, Elky started playing poker online on PokerStars, which has since become his sponsor. He comes from the video gaming world. For six years he lived in South Korea where he was a professional StarCraft player. Rapidly, poker became his passion and he’s told me that he’s permanently fascinated by each and every one of the game’s parameters: theory, psychology, mathematics, instinct, the adrenaline-rush of winning, etc. Poker was the perfect game to fit his constant quest for new challenges.
Fairly quickly, PokerStars noticed his excellent results and they asked him to become a Team PokerStars Pro. He became a professional player, traveling around the world playing tournaments. Thanks to PokerStars, he’s been able to live his passion for the last four years.
In 2008, Elky had his biggest success to date, winning the Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas. In October of the same year, he won the WPT Bellagio Fiesta Al Lago Main Event. He also won the High Roller event at the PCA, one year exactly after his first major win, was in the final four of the prestigious National Heads-Up Poker Championship, and just before this second edition went to press, Elky was named the World Poker Tour’s Season 7 Player of the Year.
In Elky’s commentary, which follows the relevant text and is prefaced by the “ELKY” icon, he addresses the book’s key concepts from his unique perspective. He also provides some anecdotes, hand analyses, and advanced strategies. A lot of players may think it’s dangerous for pros to reveal their play style and strategies, as opponents might then be able to read them better. On the contrary, Elky has told me that the exercise of reflecting on the concepts in Kill Everyone helped him learn more about the game, because it impelled him to delve ever more deeply in his own analysis. The concepts and plays are so rich and diverse that it would be exceedingly difficult for anyone to perceive consistent patterns or tendencies in his game. Indeed, unpredictability is a key aspect of advanced play.
We hope that Elky’s annotations to the concepts in Kill Everyone will help you in your own quest to become the best poker player possible. Poker is a wonderful game, in which the only way to improve is to remain an eternal student of the game.
Author's Note
Elky Joins the Game
At the 2007 European Poker Tournament Final in Monaco, just after this book was published, I (Lee) approached Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier and asked if he might like to be involved in translating Kill Everyone into French and adding his personal comments and experiences to this work.
I was flattered by Elky’s excitement at the suggestion. He told me that he respected the ability of my co-authors and me to show poker from different angles, bringing innovative technical concepts to the game, exposing the pros’ strengths and weaknesses, and verifying a number of sophisticated concepts that had previously never been in print. In 2003, Elky started playing poker online on PokerStars, which has since become his sponsor. He comes from the video gaming world. For six years he lived in South Korea where he was a professional StarCraft player. Rapidly, poker became his passion and he’s told me that he’s permanently fascinated by each and every one of the game’s parameters: theory, psychology, mathematics, instinct, the adrenaline-rush of winning, etc. Poker was the perfect game to fit his constant quest for new challenges.
Fairly quickly, PokerStars noticed his excellent results and they asked him to become a Team PokerStars Pro. He became a professional player, traveling around the world playing tournaments. Thanks to PokerStars, he’s been able to live his passion for the last four years.
In 2008, Elky had his biggest success to date, winning the Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas. In October of the same year, he won the WPT Bellagio Fiesta Al Lago Main Event. He also won the High Roller event at the PCA, one year exactly after his first major win, was in the final four of the prestigious National Heads-Up Poker Championship, and just before this second edition went to press, Elky was named the World Poker Tour’s Season 7 Player of the Year.
In Elky’s commentary, which follows the relevant text and is prefaced by the “ELKY” icon, he addresses the book’s key concepts from his unique perspective. He also provides some anecdotes, hand analyses, and advanced strategies. A lot of players may think it’s dangerous for pros to reveal their play style and strategies, as opponents might then be able to read them better. On the contrary, Elky has told me that the exercise of reflecting on the concepts in Kill Everyone helped him learn more about the game, because it impelled him to delve ever more deeply in his own analysis. The concepts and plays are so rich and diverse that it would be exceedingly difficult for anyone to perceive consistent patterns or tendencies in his game. Indeed, unpredictability is a key aspect of advanced play.
We hope that Elky’s annotations to the concepts in Kill Everyone will help you in your own quest to become the best poker player possible. Poker is a wonderful game, in which the only way to improve is to remain an eternal student of the game.
Description:
The expanded and revised second edition of Kill Everyone, by Aussie Millions champ Lee Nelson (with Steve Heston and Tyson Streib), now includes hand illustrations throughout the book—and even more enticing for poker players—commentary throughout the book by internet-poker and European playing sensation Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier, World Poker Tour’s 2009 Poker Player of the Year.
