Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments (Strategic Play) review:5 stars (are you kidding me!!!!!) - I have not read volume 2 but if it is anything like volume 1 it is a must. There are two poker books that I would consider marrying. One is super system 1 or 2 and the other is Harrington on hold'em...


"in order to live, you must be willing to die"

Amir Vahedi5 stars (Teaches you more than cards) - One of the things I liked best about this book is learning from Harrington how he uses more than the cards to win. There is so much success in poker that can be achieved through reading other players and he is the master at knowing when to push his hand and when to pull back. This book definitely helped my game and I recommend it.I've read Phil Helmuth's book as well and he talks about the importance of maintaining emotional intelligence during the poker game. I kind of went out on a limb and bought "The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book" and really recommend that to poker players as well. It's a great way to get the upper-hand using a skill most other players aren't even aware of!5 stars (It's really all in the numbers.) - "Harrington on Hold'em", both 1 & 2 are really good poker books. There is no question that you should buy and read them... and keep reading them until you thoroughly understand every concept and know how to apply them to the relevant situations. Harrington covers virtually all of the important information in great detail - very well.

What Harrington and the other poker writers don't explain well enough is how many hands you won't win. You can't win them all. You can only win a fraction of the hands you play. It is a hard cold fact that most of the time you have to have the best hand in order to win at poker. Yes, you can bluff. Sometimes it works. The more often you bluff, however, the more likely it is that you will get caught... and the more often you get caught bluffing, the less effective it becomes. What this all boils down to is this: patience is a virtue that can best be developed if you understand the probabilities and frequencies of having the best hand.

The key to being successful, in winning more than you lose, is in building the pots bigger when you are more likely to have the best hand and in keeping your investment low when your hand is weak. It is very similar to being a successful Blackjack card counter: raise your bet when the odds are in your favor and keep it little when the odds are against you. It's all in the numbers. You need to understand the probabilities and concepts like Gambler's Ruin, which are critical to being successful in the long term.

Ford's "How to Gamble at the Casinos Without Getting Plucked Like a Chicken" does a great job of explaining Gambler's Ruin and the fundamentals of card counting in Blackjack, concepts that also apply to poker. Other books, like Packel's "The Mathematics of Games and Gambling" and Meyerson's "Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict" are tougher reading, but they make the same points: 1. You win some and you lose some. 2. When you win, it is best to win big. 3. When you lose (which you will), it is best to lose small.
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