The System

David Sklansky’s improved ‘All-in or fold’ theory (from Tournament Poker for Advanced Players) The Game

£50 freezeout at the Loose Cannon poker club, London How we got on

David Sklansky is one of poker’s top theorists and responsible for classic must-reads of poker’s high-brow school library, such as Tournament Poker for Advanced Players and Hold’em Poker for Advanced Players. In the former, Sklansky details an ‘all-in or fold’ system he devised for a friend’s daughter who wanted to play in the WSOP Main Event but had never played poker.

The system took all her decisions out of the game by forcing her to move all-in with certain premium holdings thus requiring no knowledge of the game but simply the ability to remember some rules.