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    Target: JackAce - Outsmart and Outplay the JackAce in No-Limit Holdem
    Target: JackAce - Outsmart and Outplay the JackAce in No-Limit Holdem
    Target: JackAce - Outsmart and Outplay the JackAce in No-Limit Holdem
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    Target: JackAce - Outsmart and Outplay the JackAce in No-Limit Holdem

    By Hank Lancet

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    Most books about poker are written either by experts or from an expert’s point of view. The rest of the books are written for beginners on how to survive and compete against grinders at the $1-$2 or similarly low stakes no-limit (NL) tables. This book fits in neither category, for I am no expert, and this book doesn’t aim to teach you to become a consistent winner at the low stakes tables. Rather, it’s a book geared to give insight into one of the most frustrating types of players to have at your table: the JackAce. Some call him a maniac. He’s loose and his chips go all over the place. You can’t get a read on him. Since he seems to win big but also lose big with no sense of consistency, his style is largely ignored. Rather, he is discussed as a player to “be careful” around. I am a JackAce, and this book will give you insight into my style of play not because it’s so awesome, but rather because it will clue you in on how to deal with someone like me at your table. The book only costs a big blind or two, and return on investment should be quick.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHank Lancet
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781310637940
    Target: JackAce - Outsmart and Outplay the JackAce in No-Limit Holdem
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    Hank Lancet

    I am a chemistry, physics, and engineering teacher by day. I play cards and attempt to write in the remainder of the time that I have when I am not playing with my family... which means that it's a pretty big deal when I publish something.I just published my first book on poker strategy:Target: JackAce - Outsmart and Outplay the JackAce in No-Limit HoldemThis book is geared toward the amateur poker player at low stakes tables who is always thwarted by the loose "maniac". I call this maniac the JackAce. The JackAce is an underrepresented playing style in poker literature, but it is a style that I use with success. Therefore, while I myself am no poker pro, I feel comfortable writing about this particular topic and strategy as it pertains to the low stakes no limit tables.###This book takes a very different direction in my writing from my fiction works.

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      Target - Hank Lancet

      Target: JackAce

      Outsmart and Outplay the JackAce in No-Limit Holdem

      Hank Lancet

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013 Hank Lancet

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission by the author. All text, The JackAce™ logo and all JackAce images contained herein and on the cover art are the sole creative efforts of the author and may not be used for any purposes without his express written permission. The bitcoin logo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

      ISBN-13: 978-1310637940

      DEDICATION

      This book is dedicated to my family. Thank you for making every day of my life a joy to live.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Foreword

      The Ten Axioms That Define a JackAce

      Axiom 1

      Axiom 2

      Axiom 3

      Axiom 4

      Axiom 5

      Axiom 6

      Axiom 7

      Axiom 8

      Axiom 9

      Axiom 10

      Now that you’ve identified him

      Practice Scenarios

      Practice Scenario 1

      Practice Scenario 2

      Practice Scenario 3

      Practice Scenario 4

      Practice Scenario 5

      Final Thoughts

      Glossary

      About the Author

      Acknowledgments

      First, I offer my acknowledgements to those who directly impacted my life and without whom this book could not have been written. Thanks first and foremost to Michelle, Amelia, and Henry. You mean everything to me. Without your love and support, I’d never have even learned to play a real game of poker, and this book would never be written. Thanks also to my parents, who modeled a strong work ethic and who eschewed gambling, and yet who also always believed in me. Thanks to Jay Sheng; I’m lucky to have such a good friend so far away. Thanks to the dealers at the Meadows Racetrack and Casino in Washington, PA. You’ve been a friendly and helpful lot as I’ve learned the game, and I’ve learned so much from casual conversations with you. Thanks also to many of the regulars at the same casino. Win or lose, I always feel at home in the poker room there because of the people and staff. Finally, thanks to Ryan Dodge from HUSNG.com who I met long before the site existed, but who provided me inspiration nonetheless.

      Now for some obscure acknowledgements to people who will likely never know or care that they were an integral part to this process. First of all, I must thank the poker pros who wrote books that taught me how to play a baseline game. Doyle Brunson tops this list, as I’ve read his Super System so many times that the pages are falling off the binding. I’ve also read and re-read books by Phil Hellmuth and Phil Gordon, I’ve muddled through the math (I really hate stats) of David Sklansky, and I’ve read books and watched videos on tells by the enigmatic Mike Caro. I also got a lot of value out of a book written by some guy who calls himself Roy Rounder. In short, I’ve immersed myself in poker over the past couple of years and those resources got me off to a good start. I also have to thank those who keep me sane while playing. I listen to a lot of deadmau5 and Madeon at the table; I’m very thankful for their music which is awesome. Finally, I’d be remiss if I mentioned music but didn’t thank Alphabeat for giving me the only music that can clear my mind after a bad beat. Mange tak! To everyone who made this book possible, thank you so much.

      Foreword

      I am the JackAce, and I am the reason you complain about low stakes no-limit holdem poker at the casino. You’ve done your research, you’ve read poker strategy books, you’ve honed your game, and you’re a pretty solid intermediate level grinder. But there’s a certain player who always gives you trouble at the table; the guy you can’t read…the maniac… the guy who makes crazy donkey calls and somehow luck-boxes his way to a large chip stack—often at your expense. That’s the JackAce, and this book is about how to identify him and reclaim your profits out of his grasp.

      People in general like to think in polar opposites: good versus evil, high versus low, tall versus short, good players versus bad players. Adding a third pole to the mix tends to confuse people. Just as Limbo was created to house the good but un-baptized people in the first level Dante’s Inferno so that Dante could rationalize their existence in the afterlife, in order to give definition to the shades of good and bad play in poker, analysts lumped players into one of four domains.

      These domains are as follows:

      • Loose Passive

      • Tight Passive

      • Loose Aggressive

      • Tight Aggressive

      Conventional wisdom (or at least pretty much every book I’ve ever read on poker) says that the key to winning is to be aggressive. But in reality, this conventional wisdom really lumps players right back into good or bad with a nebulous in-between. For example, Loose-Passive players play too many hands, they are often calling stations, and they generally donate their money, right? It’s normal to think this way and to label these players as… BAD.

      Tight passive isn’t much better, though is it? A player who never, ever, ever plays a hand and suddenly comes in three-betting someone isn’t going to get any value for your hand. Unless that player is at a table full of loose passive players, he just isn’t going to get paid enough to justify sitting around all night and paying blinds. So while playing a tight passive style incurs fewer losses than playing a loose passive style, it’s still… BAD.

      See where I’m going with this? By default, passive is bad, and aggressive is good according to conventional wisdom. And because of that bipolar nature that we are so accustomed to, most readers accept that notion as absolute truth.

      At a casino then, aggressive players automatically feel a sense of superiority over the passive ones. I mean, let’s face it. We’ve all run people off of much better hands, and it feels so good to have that kind of fold equity. It’s easy to zone into a form of condescending complacency. And some days you just nail it and felt all of the bad players at your table (and maybe some good ones too), and you feel like the king of the world. But hold your horses there, Leo, because some days you can still play like a rock star and yet somehow lose a boatload of cash and walk away shaking your head in disbelief.

      Sometimes it’s just pure bad luck. Maybe your middle set ran into top set on the flop. Maybe your boat was sunk by quads. These things happen. It’s part of the game.

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