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. In the first volume of this series, Harrington on Hold ‘em: Volume I: Strategic Play, Dan Harrington explained how to play in the early phases of tournaments, when most players at the table had plenty of chips, and the blinds and antes were small. This book, Harrington on Hold ‘em: Volume II: The Endgame shows you how to play in the later phases of a tournament, when the field has been cut down, the blinds and antes are growing, and the big prize …
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Harrington and Robertie have surely done it again — even more powerfully than in their first volume. They have presented the authoritative text about how to think about and how to play a final table in a no limit hold em tournament. And in so doing they have redefined the game.
Harrington and Robertie introduce a whole new lexicon (at least it was new to me) about no limit poker: inflection points, red zones, dead zones, green zones, probe bets, continuation bets. Some of these phrases I had heard — maybe even dropped to impress people from time to time. But they explain them clearly and tie them all together in a vivid strategic picture of the game.
But even if you were familiar with all of these terms and phrases that help clarify the many otherwise intuitive concepts of no limit tournament play, you’ve never read a simpler, clearer or more powerful explanation of them — and all of the different stages players enter as their stack size grows and diminishes at the final table in a tournament. Similarly so with other vital concepts to no limit play like continuation and probe bets and final table play. Harrington and Robertie take the ideas that excellent players have intuitively known but until now have not fully expressed and put them into clear, simple language that any moderately experienced player can readily grasp and absorb. The hand examples, which the authors think us through further drive home the key points of this masterwork.
To say that this is a must read for every serious hold em player doesn’t do it justice. It is a book that has set a new standard for poker literature. Even if you are a very experienced winning no limit tournament player, this book will help you think and play. And I don’t think that it is overstating it to say that it will significantly change the way players talk and write about the game in the future.
Bravo Harrington and Robertie. Your two volumes are by far the best I have ever read — and I’ve read just about everything that’s out there.
This book and its companion Volume II are like my bibles. I have only being playing online poker tournaments and sit-and-go games
for three months and am already consistently winning money and getting to the final table in tournaments of 150 players or so, and have won a couple too.
When I started I bought a number of books that were well reviewed on Amazon, but frankly the rest of them are not worth a hill of beans, whereas this one is worth its weight in gold. I will not go into a description of the contents, because so many reviews have already done so, but if you want to master tournament poker, or you want a great gift for your family poker player, then look no further.
I should also say that the book is extemely well written, which is not always the case with poker books. The authorial voice is sometimes witty, and always a great friend and companion.
This book is the definitive work on the subject of no limit hold’em tournament play. I just hope my opponents don’t read it.
There is an old adage that says sequels are never as good as the original. For the most part this saying holds true but then there is the exception. Back in 1974 a sequel came out that broke the mold of how a second movie was expected to turn out. There will be endless discussions regarding which of the 2 films was superior, but there was no denying that when the second film was made, it not only was a success, but one of the greatest movies ever made.
That film was The Godfather, Part II
With ‘Harrington on Hold’em Volume II: Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments: Endgame’, Action Dan has managed to make the impossible possible. He (along with Bill Roberte) have written a sequel so good that it is hard to distinguish the two books and easily point to a reason why the first book is better than the sequel.
With the focus being how to play the middle to end stages of a tournament, Harrington has written a book that even the most experienced of players will be able to profit from. My favorite 2 points made in this book are as follows:
1. The concept of M and why it is so important to always know where your stack is in relation to the antes and blinds.
2. When heads up, nearly any 2 cards are worth playing and you are never that far behind.
I really hope that Dan Harrington doesn’t sell a lot of these books, because anyone that reads, learns, and follows the advice within is going to become a much better poker player. Employing a writing style that makes even the most difficult concepts easy to understand and follow, the end result is incredible.
I said it when I reviewed the first book, these are the most important poker books written since Doyle Brunson’s Super/System which came out in the 1970s, and it is REQUIRED reading for ALL Hold ‘Em players.
Wonderful, wonderful poker book by one of the best players in the world.
***** HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION
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