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Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategies for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. III--The Workbook (Harrington on Hold'em)
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Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategies for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. III--The Workbook (Harrington on Hold'em)by Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie
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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful: It's a gem, just like the first two. Must buy!, June 9, 2006 Reviewer:Jason Hughes "Gonso" (Egg Harbor Township, NJ United States) - This book would be better titled as "All the Stuff I Taught You in the Other Two Books, in Actual Practice using Well Known Poker Players, with Some More Stuff Thrown In, plus, How to Play After the Flop and Read Hands". It's not just a big multiple choice quiz (though they are in question format), there's a LOT of analysis going on. He uses actual hands between other top pros (not in every case, but most) to illustrate his problems in many cases. Most of the 50 "problems" are actually entire hands (with about 10-15 pages in analysis per). Here's a few examples: Problem 4: Negreanu vs. Farha - Aggression Meets Aggression Problem 9: Phil Hellmuth - Calculating the Proper Bet Size Problem 10: Phil Ivey - Maneuvering with Nothing Problem 17: Attacking Limpers Problem 19: Harrington versus Hansen - Playing a Medium Pair Problem 45: Negreanu vs. Arieh - Handling an Aggressive Opponent I should throw in here that having a world-class pro analyzing some of these guys is a real treat. For example, we all know that Phil Ivey is aggressive and one of the best players there is, BUT... can you explain specifically what Ivey actually does in practice? Harrington helps, at least a little bit. Thanks Action Dan! Of course, this book is based aroung Harrington's tight style, and a lot of the analysis here flies in the face of aggressive poker theory. But, Dan does have tons of credibility in the poker world, conservative or not. What I really like about this book is that it does a great job of highlighting some common situations that you run into all the time, like calling all-ins and so on. One of the prior reviews noted there wasn't much in the way of new material, but that's just not true at all. It's not laid out the same way as in the other volumes, true: they're absorbed into the problems. And there's not as much new stuff, but it's still very much there. AND, the new stuff is VERY situation specific. Like, if your M is exactly 4, can you go all in with AQ offsuit if a player before you bets (that is, without first-in vigorish)? When talking about inflection point play in V2, he stressed that you want to be the first one in to push all your chips in, but didn't get into it too much. There's also a lot more hand analysis, and the book really centers around post-flop play. Structured Hand Analysis (SHAL) pops up several times again, and it's been huge in improving my game... I wouldn't skip over it, even thought it is a little dull. But yes! This is more than I was expecting when I heard it was just going to be a collection of problems. Anyone who plays No Limit tourneys should most definately own all three volumes, in my opinion.
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