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Dan is a professional poker player. His poker success includes:
Dan is a top player and a Poker Hall of Fame member. He started with chess, where he quickly became a master and one of the best players in New England.
Harrington picked his nickname “Action Dan” because of his tight, conservative style of play.
Bill is a poker, backgammon, and chess player. He started playing chess when he was a boy. He has won the World Backgammon Championship twice (in 1987 and 1983).
While attending Harvard, he helped the Harvard chess team win many titles.
The book includes:
Here is Dan Harrington’s description of each chapter:
Part One serves as an introduction to the game as a whole. I’ll show you why no-limit Hold ’em is considered the “Cadillac of Poker” and what you need to consider when you try to evaluate a hand. I’ll also take you inside a very interesting and complex hand from the final table of the
2003 World Series of Poker. You might have seen this hand on television; I’ll show you what the players were really thinking.
Part Two covers playing styles. If you watched some poker on television, you’ve heard players described as “conservative,” “aggressive,” “super-aggressive,” and “willing to play any two cards!” In Part Two I’ll show what these terms really mean and how to play in each style. Most
important, I’ll explain why you need to switch from style to style as the situation demands.
Part Three, “Reading the Table,” explains how to observe the action and keep track of both physical tells and betting patterns. It also explains how to observe yourself, and why that’s so important.
Part Four, “Pot Odds and Hand Analysis,” explains all the math you’ll need to know to play no-limit hold ’em. (There is some, but fortunately there isn’t a lot.) The chapter covers pot odds, expressed and implied odds, and analyzes hands in relation to the odds being offered.
Part Five covers the whole topic of “Betting Before the Flop.” I’ll introduce a complete strategy for betting for value in pots that haven’t been opened yet, and I’ll also show you what hands you
need to call or raise for value when the pot has been opened in front of you.
Part Six, “Betting After the Flop,” shows you how to think about your hand when the flop arrives. I’ll show you a number of sample hands and compare them to various flops, explaining which flops are good, wrong, and deceptively dangerous.
Part Seven covers fourth and fifth street action, including getting extra money in the pot, playing against drawing hands, and betting (or not betting) on the end.
Each chapter contains several “problems” or quizzes to test your knowledge.
Volume 1 is really a foundation for volume 2. You must read both books for a complete strategy.
This book is loaded with diagrams. And the Kindle version does a fantastic job of presenting the graphs from the paperback.
Yes, there is an audio version of the book, and it’s much cheaper than the paperback.
Harrington on Hold ’em, in general, is not considered outdated because many of the concepts are still applicable and used by many players today.
The book has been created to help your tournament game, as the title suggests. However, many of the ideas can be beneficial for cash games.
There is no legal free pdf version of this poker book. The Author and the publisher must be paid for their hard work, and by purchasing the book instead of downloading it, you say thank you to them.
Poker on television needs to appeal to a broad audience of mostly casual players. As a result, the hands selected for inclusion tend to be dramatic all-in showdowns and major clashes.
Tournaments are won and lost in the trenches, where average-plus hands butt heads with average-minus hands. That's the workaday world of no-limit hold 'em
But you don't need to be a math whiz to play good poker. Keeping your head at the table and thinking clearly is far more important.
In no-limit Hold 'em, there are no trivial hands. Since you don't have to show your cards down to win, under the right circumstances any hand can be a winner.
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