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Cash Games (How to Win at No-Limit Hold'em Money Games) Vol. 1 | 
| Authors: Dan Harrington, Bill Robertie
Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 2348
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 418
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 1880685426
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.412
EAN: 9781880685426
ASIN: 1880685426
Publication Date: March 14, 2008
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Product Description
The first years of the poker boom were fueled by the interest in no-limit hold em tournaments. Recently, however, players have been gravitating to another, even more complex form of hold em no-limit cash games. In Harrington on Cash Games: Volume I, Dan Harrington teaches you the key concepts that drive deep-stack cash game play. You ll learn how to tailor your selection of starting hands to your stack size, how to recognize the increasing deception value of supposedly weaker hands as the stack sizes increase, and how to use the concept of pot commitment to your advantage as the size of the pot grows. After laying out the general concepts behind deep-stack cash game play, Harrington shows you a complete strategy for post-flop play, and then teaches you the difference between post-flop play against a single opponent and post-flop play against multiple opponents. If you play no-limit hold em cash games, you need to read this book. 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 the final table in 2003 (field of 839) and 2004 (field of 2,576) considered by cognoscenti to be the greatest accomplishment in WSOP history. In Harrington on Cash Games, Harrington and two-time World Backgammon Champion Bill Robertie have written the definitive books on no-limit cash games. These books will teach you what you need to know to be a winner in the cash game world.
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 Great for the nuances between cash games and tournaments December 23, 2008
He does an excellent job of getting across the subtle differences between cash games and tournament poker. I've read his other 3 books on tournament games (which are very good in their own right) and the contrast in objectives is nice, as are some of the underlying theories. The combination of text and example hands works very well and makes the points he's trying to get across clearer.
While this is a different subject, I can see how this can be applied to deep stacked tournaments as well, which is great - and not something in his other books.
In general he advocates playing more hands (than in tournaments). The only thing I'd like to see more of in the book is more advice and direction on how to keep from playing too many hands, and some ways to detect or monitor yourself in order to catch that. Other than that, a great book on a tricky subject.
not for beginners December 18, 2008
fist things first. this book is not for beginners. you need a good grasp of poker lingo and basic play to appreciate this book. i read volume 1 and 2 and these are the best books on NL Holdem.
the first volume is preflop and flop play and the second book is on turn and river play plus some bonus topics. these books should be bought and read as one book.
the positives are as follows:
it gives you concrete examples that were based on live and internet play. the problems are easy to read. the explinations of what actions to take and what your thought process should be in the problems are complicated but necessary . there are so many hand examples that it becomes engrained in your brain by the end of the books.
this is a book for "big stack" no limit. 100 big blinds and up. if you know Dan Harringtons reputation as a tight player(Action Dan) you will be suprised at how loose he reccomends you play. he constantly tells you to mix up your game and raise with some pritty light hands. if you play as he reccomends you will have you opponents totaly confused.
his opinions on how to use a wristwatch to randomise your actions and the "metagame theory" are worth the pice of the books alone!
this book is not a recipe book on how to win...far from it. but if you are willing to put in the time and effort to apply his concepts...you will be a dangerous player at the table!
the only negative thing i can say is that he only raises 3 big blinds in 90% of his examples. each game is different. at my local cardroom a 3x raise gets no respect. 4x and 5x big blind raises are the norm and tend to narrow the field. and there is no advice on the caped buyin games that are common in california cardrooms.
hope my review was helpfull...Mike A
 After the first 84 pages, ... December 18, 2008
... Cash Games (Vol. I) by Harrington and Robertie has already improved my game. Previously I tended to play 90% of the time too tight, mistakenly mis-using what I'd learned from reading books about tournament play (3 of which happen to be by H & R). The other 10% of the time I was mainly getting too deep & big into small hands like top pair/good kicker, 2-pair and better hands, however devalued by threats on the board.
Early on my cash game was profitable only because of a short streak of beginner's luck. After that brief period of 'invincibility' ended I watched my bank roll steadily drop and drop and drop, even as I backed off my initial loose-weak play and (wrongly) applied tournament principles to my cash game. I remembered thinking, "I'm doing well in small tournaments; why am I losing money in cash games?!?"
I've read H & R's tournament volumes (just about to finish Vol. III) and credit Dan and Bill greatly for helping me to consistently place in online sit-n-go's and small, 1 or 2 table home tournaments. After receiving an email notifying me of the availability of this new cash game series, I ordered on the spot. Now, after reading less than a quarter of the book and applying the initial principles covered in just those pages I've enjoyed 2 profitable no-limit cash sessions and feel much more confident in my game. Although, tempered by experience, I don't expect to improve further until I read further, ....
So, I'm looking forward to finishing Cash Games and pre-ordering future volumes. I highly recommend Dan & Bill's books, and can't advise you to get this particular book more strongly.
My Poker Bible November 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Considering that I am new to this game, I was confused at just what "winning" strategy book by top player author I should buy. I am glad that I picked this one! The book doesnt waste time teaching the history of the game or basic how to play, rather it jumps right in to the theory that you need to win. Vol one teaches tight agressive play, while volume 2 teaches loose agressive play. I will be buying that one shortly as well. So far I have won $500 in one months time using the techniques in this book, which is pretty good considering that I am a newbie and am playing low stakes poker cash games. Great book, I cant wait to read more from mr. Harrington.
Luck is the residue of preparation. October 6, 2008
They say that 'luck is the residue of preparation'. This is especially true when it comes playing poker. So, plan to get very lucky after you read Dan Harrington's 2 volumes on cash game no limit hold'em.
I've been a limit player for 20 years. Recently, I decided to devote myself to no limit because of the greater profit in these games. From my general knowledge, I knew that there were significant strategy differences in correct strategy for no limit so I read a couple of books. However, these books didn't really help very much. Then I got Harrington's books and it was like someone had turned on a light in a dark room. It made a world of difference in my game. I 'get it' now.
To put some perspective on this, I'm playing in a $2/$3 blind no limit game with a $200 cap on the buyin, in a brick and mortar poker room. I mention this because some of the reviews of these books have critized them for being too basic. However, if you're playing in a small game, basic strategy is probably the BEST strategy. In the second volume, there is a chapter about playing in small no limit games. I recommend you jump ahead and read it first. Keeping this chapter in mind as you read everything else will really give you a great perspective on how to beat a small no limit game. With respect to beating the bigger games, I really don't know if these books will help because I'm not playing in those games yet. But if you are new to no limit, or you are just having trouble beating the small game you're playing in, these books are great.
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