Harrington on Cash Games: How to Win at No-Limit Hold’em Money Games: v. 1
£25.90
In Harrington on Cash Games: Volume I, Dan Harrington teaches you the key concepts that drive deep-stack cash game play. You ll learn how to tailor your selection of starting hands to your stack size, how to recognize the increasing deception value of supposedly weaker hands as the stack sizes increase, and how to use the concept of pot commitment to your advantage as the size of the pot grows. After laying out the general concepts behind deep-stack cash game play, Harrington shows you a complete strategy for post-flop play, and then teaches you the difference between post-flop play against a single opponent and post-flop play against multiple opponents. If you play no-limit hold em cash games, you need to read this book.
Dan Harrington won the gold bracelet and the World Champion title at the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold em Championship at the 1995 World Series of Poker. And he was the only player to make the final table in 2003 (field of 839) and 2004 (field of 2,576) considered by cognoscenti to be the greatest accomplishment in WSOP history. In Harrington on Cash Games, Harrington and two-time World Backgammon Champion Bill Robertie have written the definitive books on no-limit cash games. These books will teach you what you need to know to be a winner in the cash game world.
Read more
Additional information
| Publisher | Revised ed. edition (22 Aug. 2023), Two Plus Two |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 436 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1880685426 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1880685426 |
| Dimensions | 13.97 x 2.51 x 21.59 cm |
by Mike The Knife
A classic of its time that is now out of date.
The main problem with the book is that no-one limps any more and this changes the entire dynamic of the game.
by Malcolm Clarke
This book brings Dan Harringtons excellent teaching style straight to the novice Cash game player for No Limit Texas Holdem.
The book demands that the reader has some knowledge of Poker, this is not an ABC guide of Poker from “how to play in position” the reader should have a basic grounding of strategy before embarking on unravelling this book.
The book mostly deals with pre-flop and post-flop play and whilst the turn and river are covered, Harrington leaves the in depth discussion of fourth and fifth street to the second book (Harrington on Cash Games 2 – Blue Book) which focuses more on the turn and river play and strategies.
What I enjoyed about this book is that I picked it up with little if any knowledge of cash games but finished the book fairly confident I could mix it with even a reasonable cash game player. Especially at the lower limits, you will be much better equipt for having read this book than not. Players at the lower levels are generally straight forward and understanding the virtues of the books principles will stand you in good stead.
The way that you approach cash games is different to tournaments, and Harrington really drills down on what the main differences are – especially when it comes to dealing with pocket pairs, position, and hole cards in relation to the size of your stack. The size of your stack of chips makes a lot of difference to how you play the hand. Harrington uses clever analogies to demonstrate the differences between what hands you play compared to what you might do in tournaments where blinds are high and you must act decisively with strong pre-flop hands. This is possibly the hardest thing for a cash game newbie to grasp. You really can, with good intentions, play 10 8 offsuit (in position) in order to gain the opportunity to win your opponents entire stack, whilst in a tournament that would be stretching the “mix it up” deception plays to the maximum.
Check this book out on amazon.co.uk by following the link. It is not cheap, but worth consideration if you are seriously wanting to understand the principles of cash game play.
by M. Sobriquet
Not a lot to say about this book. I’d place it at an intermediate level, it has a lot of depth, and worth getting. Buy it, highly recommended (as are all his others)
by S. Mark St.Ear
Taken together, volumes one and two of Harrington on cash games are the best books I have ever read on NL hold em. Harrington gets across difficult ideas in as simple a way as possible, with plenty of examples and questions (as in his tournament books).
Very interesting exposition of the difference that stack size has on overall strategy, as well as the best section on hand reading I’ve yet come across.
by Raj Soomaree
Best poker book I’ve read up to now.
by keirjon
I have had the book about a week now, and i am about to start reading it for the second time. Very readable, but so full of good points that i know that i have missed some the first time through.
by Eds
Excellent.
by vasco
Very good