James Sweeney

Ace King is a massively profitable hand. In fact, it's in the top-5% of winning hands, and Ace King should account for a good chunk of your winrate.But despite that fact, many players are confused about how to approach this hand. Should you 3bet it preflop, or just call it?Should you play the suited and offsuit versions the same, or differently?Should you c-bet with air, or check instead?How many streets of value is top pair really worth?Most players struggle with AK due to small leaks in their strategy. So Optimizing Ace King (OAK) doesn't just give you a bunch of memorized plays and tactics. Instead, OAK shows you how AK fits within your strategy and ranges. This prepares you for playing AK, among other hands, in a variety of spots and under a variety of conditions.James "SplitSuit" Sweeney and Adam "W34Z3L" Jones co-wrote this book to take an in-depth look at poker strategy through the lens of a single hand. Concepts include: 3betting4bettingC-bettingBarrelingGTO vs. Exploitative PlayDeducing lines from GTO solver outputAnd more...You will play Ace King 99.9% of the time you are dealt it, and since it makes up such a large chunk of your winrate, even modest improvements in your strategic approach can boost your bottom line.Each chapter builds upon the last, walking you through preflop play, flop play (when you hit, miss, and flop draws), and turn + river play. Plus, there is an entire chapter full of examples to help bring the concepts to life - and a chapter dedicated strictly to tournament players. If your winrate with AK could use a boost, invest a few chips and see the ROI in no time at all And yes, the foreword was written by legendary poker author Ed Miller

With practical tools and strategies, this book assists readers in identifying their own thinking styles and shows how to overcome roadblocks to good judgment.

Unfolding Poker: Advanced Answers To The Most Frequently-Asked Poker Questions is the latest book by best-selling author James "SplitSuit" Sweeney. This book takes questions ranging from "how can I use my table image to my advantage?" to "what should I do when my continuation bets stop working?" and gives actionable answers that you can use in your next session.Poker books tend to be too long and require a large time investment to finish them. Unfolding Poker breaks that mold. Open up to any chapter that interests you that day, read it quickly, and put it to use in your next session. Get clear and actionable answers to the questions that impact your winrate today.

Talking about God in Practice details the challenges and complexities of real theological conversations with practitioners, whilst providing an example of appropriate process, and a model of theological understanding by which to negotiate these complexities fruitfully. Drawing on, and adapting, action research methods, this process enables researchers with practitioners to access ‘implicit’ theologies, embedded within practices. The disclosure of the theology borne by practice enables a fresh and often exciting insight for all concerned, which leads to renewal of both practice and theology. The “Theological Action Research” process offers effective and mutually constructive ways of engaging practitioners and ‘academics’ in authentic research partnerships, contributing to the proper rootedness of theological scholarship, and to capacity building among practitioners for further, self-led research, reflection, and theologizing.

With practical tools and strategies, this book assists readers in identifying their own thinking styles and shows how to overcome roadblocks to good judgment.