New AK Poker Book

Hey y'all,
I would like to be the first to introduce Optimizing Ace King (OAK)! Adam Jones and I co-wrote this book to take the most in-depth look at playing AK. Since you play AK in 99.9% of situations, and since it should be one of your top earning hands - it only made sense to fully explore the hole cards that create so much confusion among players.

OAK comes in every popular format..just choose the one that is right for you:

OAK explores AK through a few different paths:
And to tie everything together, we even dedicated an entire chapter to reviewing a variety of AK hands.
If you look down at Ace King and feel incredibly confident with your lines in single-raised pots AND 3bet pots, both preflop and postflop, skip this book. But if you ever feel uneasy with AK, even just a little, pick up your copy of OAK and start seeing the plan with this hand more clearly!
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If you have any questions about OAK, feel free to leave a comment and I'd be happy to help you out ♥
I would like to be the first to introduce Optimizing Ace King (OAK)! Adam Jones and I co-wrote this book to take the most in-depth look at playing AK. Since you play AK in 99.9% of situations, and since it should be one of your top earning hands - it only made sense to fully explore the hole cards that create so much confusion among players.

OAK comes in every popular format..just choose the one that is right for you:
- Ebook: https://redchippoker.com/aceking
- Paperback: https://amzn.to/2A0PiT0
- Kindle: https://amzn.to/2pModx1
- Audible: https://splitsu.it/audible-oak

OAK explores AK through a few different paths:
- How does AK hit vs. miss?
- How should we prioritize learning (through the lens of AK)?
- How should you play AK preflop? This includes flatting vs. 3betting, 3bet/4bet wars, and where AKs and AKo start to differ...
- How should you play AK when it hits flops?
- How should you play AK when it misses the flop? This includes missing in 3bet pots as well!
- How should you play gutshots with AK?
- How should you play turns & rivers, both when you improve AND when you continue missing?
And to tie everything together, we even dedicated an entire chapter to reviewing a variety of AK hands.
If you look down at Ace King and feel incredibly confident with your lines in single-raised pots AND 3bet pots, both preflop and postflop, skip this book. But if you ever feel uneasy with AK, even just a little, pick up your copy of OAK and start seeing the plan with this hand more clearly!
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If you have any questions about OAK, feel free to leave a comment and I'd be happy to help you out ♥
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For sure! The podcast episode coming out on 10/16/2018 will be a complete chapter from the audiobook.
And this is a snippet from the "When AK Misses The Flop" chapter: https://www.splitsuit.com/how-to-play-ak-when-it-misses
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Thanks Boyd!
I get where the confusion is here. Essentially, the conversation flips quickly from discussing what happens when V calls your flop raise - to what happens when V 3bets your flop raise - and then back to a general convo of playing as the preflop caller. I'll add that to my list of things to recheck and possibly clarify when I do my next editing sweep =)
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There is a full chapter about tournament-specific concepts, but the overarching concepts in the book apply to both.
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Some of the players i chat with on a everyday basis had some pretty big interrogation about some examples in the book.
One that comes to mind is this one:
I was pointed to this video regarding this example.
I would like to have your commentary about it.
Thanks.
1. Alvin didn't even buy the book (notice that they just stripped an example image from the sales page), so he didn't even get a chance to read the text surrounding this hand...which actually goes on to show the SAME GTO solver output that he ran.
2. Ironically, his big issue with the quote on the screen about "cbetting 100% of the time is problematic" is actually an agreed upon point given the PIO output.
3. You can't change a range mid example, while keeping the flop static, and then try to compare the EV across the board when certain boards favor polarized ranges, and others favor depolarized ranges.
There are other factors, but I think those 3 make the bigger point =)
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At his core, a strategy, EV speaking, will always benefits more when you introduces a mixes of bet sizes with small and bigger bets but the benefits overall will not drastically change the EV outcome to the point of strictly uses a polarized strategy with big bets. You will surely always stay within a 0.97% of the optimal EV when using a depoled strategy on a solid(which represents the whole game) flops subset database.
Are we working to optimize, or just looking to simplify? Sure, we can easily just depole all of our 3/4/5bet ranges preflop and enjoy the extra EV bump and "easier" postflop decisions...but that comes at the cost of board coverage, an easier to read preflop calling range, etc. Plus, that goes against the ethos of overarching text since the goal is not just to give watered down lines and ranges to memorize...
On a related note, this is also why it's totally unreasonable to take a PART of a subsection of a PART of a chapter of a PART of a book and extrapolate it to represent the entire book. The main counters - including one vs. multiple sizing strategies and simple vs. complex mixes - are discussed on the very next page.
Hopefully that clears up my position, and this is my last post on the matter. If we still disagree at this point, I'm happy to agree to disagree =)
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