Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No-limit Tournaments. Volume I: Strategic Play

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Two Plus Two Publishing LLC, 2004 - Games & Activities - 381 pages

Poker has taken America by storm. But it s not just any form of poker that has people across the country so excited it s No-Limit Hold Em the main event game. And now thanks to televised tournaments tens of thousands of new players are eager to claim their share of poker glory.

Harrington on Hold Em takes you to the part of the game the cameras ignore the tactics required to get through the hundreds and sometimes thousands of hands you must win to make it to the final table. Harrington s sophisticated and time-tested winning strategies, focusing on what it takes to survive the early and middle stages of a No-Limit Hold Em tournament, are appearing here for the first time in print. These are techniques that top players use again and again to get to make it to final tables around the globe.

Now, learn from one of the world s most successful No-Limit Hold Em players how to vary your style, optimize your betting patterns, analyze hands, respond to a re-raise, play to win the most money possible, react when a bad card hits and much, much more.

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 it to the final table in 2003 (field of 839) and 2004 (field of 2576) considered by cognoscenti to be the greatest accomplishment in WSOP history. In Harrington on Hold Em, Harrington and 2-time World Backgammon Champion Bill Robertie have written the definitive book on No-Limit Hold Em for players who want to win ... and win big.

 

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Contents

Introduction
10
What is a Hand?
16
A Sample Hand
24
The Hidden Luck Factor in NoLimit Hold Em
33
The Aggressive Approach
40
The Art of Defense
46
Introduction
84
This
87
Introduction
120
The Problems
144
Introduction
174
Introduction
264
Value Bets
275
Playing Well Before the Flop Versus Playing Well After
285
Introduction
338
Conclusion
375

Observing Yourself
98
The Problems
104
Copyright

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Bibliographic information

TitleHarrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No-limit Tournaments. Volume I: Strategic Play
Volume 1 of Harrington Tournament
Volume 1 of Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No-limit Tournaments, Dan Harrington
AuthorsDan Harrington, Bill Robertie
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherTwo Plus Two Publishing LLC, 2004
ISBN1880685337, 9781880685334
Length381 pages
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