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How to Win at Texas Hold'em Poker

Sloan School of Management MIT CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 6 lectures

Offered during MIT's Independent Activites Period (IAP), this short course covers the poker concepts, math concepts, and general concepts needed to play the game of Texas Hold'em on a professional level. {{% resource_link "1c6a45b2-cc33-446c-9ab0-83918b9064a2" "IAP is a special 4-week term in January" %}} that provides members of the MIT community including students, faculty, staff, and alums with an opportunity to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of activities and topics that are often outside of the regular MIT curriculum. **Faculty Advisor:** Paul Mende

Syllabus

  1. 1 Lecture 1: Overview and Introduction
  2. 2 Lecture 2: Introduction to Postflop Play
  3. 3 Lecture 3: Tournaments vs. Cash Games
  4. 4 Lecture 4: Preflop Re-raising Theory
  5. 5 Lecture 6: Independent Chip Model
  6. 6 Lecture 7: An In-depth Combinatorial Hand Analysis

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