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In The Kaizen of Poker, Sheree Bykofsky will help you take your game to the next level - and to the level after that. By learning how to identify and focus on the skills and strategies you need to improve most, you will find yourself raking in more pots and leaving the game a winner far more often. Do you play too many hands? Bluff too little or ineffectively? Not know how to read the other players' strategies and cards? Take the 'Morning After Challenge' and start outplaying the opponents you want to emulate. Expanding on Secrets the Pros Won't Tell You About Winning Hold'Em Poker by Lou Krieger and Sheree Bykofsky, here she takes the Japanese concept of 'Kaizen' - continuous improvement - and applies it to the card game we all love best.

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Publié par	Ecw Press
Date de parution	07 juin 2018
Nombre de lectures	3
EAN13	9781773051376
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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The Kaizen of Poker
How to Continuously Improve Your Hold’em Game
Sheree Bykofsky

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Kaizen and Poker and Life
Part One: The Morning-After Checklist
One Did you arrive at the game fresh, focused, awake, and ready to play your A game?
Two Did you think positive thoughts?
Three Were you distracted by your cell phone, alcohol, work, thoughts, or anything else?
Four Did you play a limit that was within your comfort zone?
Five Did you choose a game that suited you?
Six Did you create, manipulate, and monitor your image?
Seven Did you fold enough?
Eight Did you pick the right hands to play?
Nine Did you stay aware of the rules, such as protecting your hand?
Ten Were you aware of the gap concept?
Eleven Did you play with discipline?
Twelve Did you embrace every opportunity to gather information?
Thirteen Did you control the hands you were in?
Fourteen Did you study the other players’ personalities and try to read their cards?
Fifteen Did you pay attention to the other players’ betting patterns?
Sixteen Did you manage the maniacs?
Seventeen Did you over- or underestimate your opponents?
Eighteen Did you bluff effectively?
Nineteen Did you recognize strong players?
Twenty Did you recognize weak players?
Twenty-one Did you defend your big and little blinds?
Twenty-two Did you get married to hands?
Twenty-three Did you play with hope or skill?
Twenty-four Did the talk at the table, including your own, help or hurt you?
Twenty-five Were you one of the experts, intermediates, or a fish?
Twenty-six Did you play hands correctly in position?
Twenty-seven Did you do some math and pay attention to the size of the pot and pot odds?
Twenty-eight Did you bet correctly?
Twenty-nine Did you usually win when you got to the river?
Thirty Did you go on tilt?
Thirty-one Did you vary your play?
Thirty-two Did you play with the correct amount of aggression?
Thirty-three Are you aware of specific blunders that you made?
Thirty-four Did your play improve or go downhill as the session progressed?
Thirty-five Did you play like a winning player . . . even if you didn’t win?
Thirty-six Did you remember what you learned?
Part Two: Continuously Improving – The Basics
Minimal Math
Tournament Play
Online Play
Ask the Experts
Afterword: Keep It Going
About the Author
Copyright

This book is dedicated to my two dear departed friends Lou Krieger and Marty Edelston. Lou, writing books with you was one of the greatest pleasures of my life. You inspired me and everyone you encountered to be the best players they could be.
Marty, you invented I-power, the Western Kaizen, and introduced me to the principle of Kaizen. You didn’t just talk the talk. In your colorful vest, you truly walked the walk. When you moved your family and your business from New York City to Connecticut, all but one of your hundred employees moved with you. You showed me how everyone in your company used the daily suggestion box and constantly strived to improve.
You both inspire me daily, and I feel you watching over me — provided I make the very best choices minute by minute. I am blessed to have known you both personally and to have called you friends. Your huge legacies will live on. You will both be in my heart forever.

Acknowledgments
It takes a poker room! First, let me thank you for reading this book. If this book helps you, please help me thank those people who helped me to help you. Foremost, Lou Krieger. I wish I could have written dozens more books with you. Taro Gold, thank you for your Daily Inspirations and for allowing me to sprinkle them throughout this book. Thank you, Deirdre Quinn, for helping me keep Lou Krieger’s memory aablive by sanctioning my adaptation of the book I wrote with Lou: Secrets the Pros Won’t Tell You About Winning Hold’Em Poker .
Everyone should have a hilarious professional comedian as a good friend and book organizer. Michelle Tomko (you should book her!) helped me immeasurably by putting so much information into an order that makes sense, helping me to clarify difficult concepts, keeping the soup from boiling over, and, most important, making work fun. Others I wish to thank are Bob Leibowitz — my best poker student, now loving husband, and his warm and embracing extended family; Joyce Kaplan, my original game buddy; my adopted family, Andrea and Bruce Polakoff; my “son,” Mark Ruderman; my talented author and insightful, gifted editor of this book, Johnny Kampis (I hope you will enjoy his book Vegas or Bust: A Family Man Takes on the Poker Pros ); Alisa Melekhina; the late great Ken Flaton; Ken Schaffer; Sheila Dean and the Marine Mammal Stranding Center; Katharine Sands; Rita Rosenkranz; Carol and Rick Ucci and family, Paul Avrin, Lori Doyle; Scotty Macom, who welcomed me weekly onto his fun radio show on WOND; Dave Coskey (still hoping you will give me a poker radio show); Joy and Martin Brown; Whitney and Marc Ullman; Steve Sapeersaud; Jan and Aldo Cardia; Ellen Massey; Doris Michaels; Charlie Michaels; Chuck Darrow; Anthony Holden; the late Pinky Kravitz, who interviewed me twice; Fred Howard, my poker fan; great assistant Sammy; Barbara, Gina, Nikki, from the best post office; Tom and Joe, my poker students; the gaming authors I represent as a literary agent — Richard Roeper, David Apostolico, Mike Matusow, Warwick Dunnett, Amy Calistri, Tim Lavalli, Henry Stephenson, J. Phillip Vogel, John Bukofsky (spelled with a u and no relation), Phil Hellmuth, Ephraim Rosenbaum, and the late Gary Carson. Despite keeping some secrets for yourselves, your books are all great.
More friends and family to thank are Linda Gruber and Bob Detmer, for introducing me to the game in the same serious way that we all played tournament Scrabble® together. Steve Ash, you introduced me to my favorite game ever: no-limit tournament poker. Old friends Jeff Kastner and Ron Tiekert, you helped me shape my early game. Also, Mike Coleman, Jeff Herman, and Joe Wieneke. Thanks, too, to my Park Avenue poker crew, whom I miss: Sam Friedman, concert pianist Abbey Simon, Jonathan Friedman, Maurice Rapp, and, may they rest in peace, Brian Padol and Ring Lardner Jr. (Why did I cash that $43 check that I won from you?!) Thank you, Janet Rosen, my no-longer-secret agent weapon. And thank you, Nolan Dalla, for writing the foreword to the first Secrets book.
I’d like to thank the poker room managers, staff, and dealers of New York City who staved off the coppers as I studied the game, played, and wrote. You know who you are! I’d even like to turn the other cheek and thank the cranky players who were sure they were losing their chips to an aggressive female who just got lucky. Thank you for paying me off! More than them, I’d like to thank the mostly lovely players I truly enjoy playing with in those clubs. And from the Borgata to the Bellagio to the MGM National Harbor, I love the legal poker rooms in which I play. Thank you especially to Ellen Fried, my “sister” Ming-Zhu Wu, Mabel Louie, Mike (and Candi) Cimino, Eric, William and Adam, manager Vinnie, and all of the skilled floor people and dealers at the Borgata. Thank you alternate cover models: Ryan Lee, Edward Weich, Robert Wanjala, Clive Harrison, Robert Yass, Harvey Layton, Mitch Essrig, and Fekre Tesgate.
I’d like to thank PokerStars for providing a great site that allowed me to live one of my dreams of playing in the World Series of Poker. Thank you to the Bella for hosting my poker boot camp. And thanks to the many people who were pulling for me, including my wonderful friends Sarah Hiner and Margie Abrams of Bottom Line Inc., who kindly provided their dad’s inspirational epilogue, “Be Your Best,” and allowed me to reprint the article on bluffing from their superb newsletter Bottom Line Personal based on my interview with Mike Robbins.
I hope you enjoy the nuggets of wisdom from my interviews with experts in various other games: bridge master Jeff Rubens; inspirational boxer/poker player Tim Dougherty; my friends Bruce Pandolfini, who humbly refers to himself simply as a chess teacher; former New York Times book reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt and his (and now my) poker buddies, including Gene Orza; the inspirational Brandon DeNoyer; and the powerfully philosophical Kenna James.
Love to my game playing family: Centenarian Aunt Florence, Norman, Sheila, Susan, Laura, Seth, Tina, and Wendy. Also my cousins, especially Mike Baron and Rob Certner.
More love to those who I feel watch over me: my dear departed parents and grandparents, my brother Allan, too many friends. I hope there is a heaven and that you are all playing poker there.
Pocket aces to everyone at ECW, especially my blessedly patient friend and editor Jack David, Rachel Ironstone, and Tania Blokhuis.

Introduction. Kaizen and Poker and Life
In its simplest terms, Kaizen is the Japanese business principle of continuous improvement. Companies that institute Kaizen usually set up systems to institute and reward good suggestions in different departments.
I assume you know how to play poker, but no matter how good you are, you can always improve. It is my aim in The Kaizen of Poker to help you determine your level, focus on your own personal weaknesses, and develop a personalized action plan.
Poker involves money and, as such, is your business — even if it is only your hobby. If you break down your game into different “departments,” you are then able to focus on different weak and strong skills and improve upon them. You should be rewarded with winning