Harrington On Cash Games
Dan “Action” Harrington has written many successful books about Texas hold’em tournament play and it’s about time that he finally made a book to help the cash game players. No Limit Texas hold’em has been on the rise for the last couple years and is now the most popular card game in the world. Along with being the most popular, it is one of the most profitable because of players seeing it on television and wanting to play with the mindset of every hand is a big hand or big bluff. Dan Harrington bestows upon his readers with exactly how to take advantage of that with this piece of text.
The book is mainly aimed at players who have a relative understanding of the game and terminology and for higher thinking players to grow on. The book starts with a classroom style refresher for the player, proving that Harrington really plans to take on quite a bit with the reader so he wants them to be fresh on their game for proper play. He goes over a lot of the basic ideas that a player must know about being tight and aggressive. When the player has finished the first catch up section of the book Harrington starts to go a little more in depth of the game for the reader to see how the mind of a pro level thinker would work. It would have been better for the more advanced players if Harrington would have assumed you have already read Harrington on Hold’em: Volume 1 and Harrington on Hold’em Volume 2
Harrington then divides the rest of the book up into three smaller sections. He lays it out in preflop play, flop play, turn play, and river play. The examples normally span a full hand, but they are mainly to express a point about a specific play at the time. He describes different reasons a player would want to make specific plays on which ever street that it is and what would happen if they did it a different way. This not only gives the reader options by learning multiple ways of representing a hand in a certain spot, but also can show the player why making one play over another is better.
Harrington goes into detail about different ideas in the game like pot odds. He gives percentages for different situations when pot odds are in effect. He also speaks of being pot committed and how to avoid it. He does go over position and avoiding playing with short stakes. You don’t want to try and bluff a guy that’s ready to shove his little stack in with AT and force you to fold and lose money.
Harrington expresses a few situations in an unclear manor and it would be nice if he could be a little clearer with his explanations. Other than that Harrington does a fine job of making Harrington on Cash Games the best book written about cash games yet.
If you are trying to start playing serious poker like the pros, then Harrington on Cash Games is most definitely for you. This book holds all the secrets that professional poker Dan Harrington has used to become the player that he is today. If you plan to put even a penny on the table, you should more than likely read Harrington on Cash Games first. You will make well over the price of the book. Start winning today. Check out Harrington on Cash Games.
