DAN HARRINGTON - HARRINGTON ON CASH VOLUME 2

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All cash players, particularly tight intermediate players looking to open up their play.

In Harrington on Cash Games, well known poker player/author and 1995 WSOP main event winner Dan Harrigton, and co-author Bill Robertie, reveal the key concepts required to win on today's no-limit full ring holdem cash games.  There are two books, and they translate equally well to live or online play.

Volume 2 continues where volume 1 left off - discussing tight aggressive play.  The authors address the most common mistakes made by holdem players. Key concepts include the "small hand, small pot, big hand, big pot" idea, balancing your actions by varying tactics, and the simplistic nature of most cash games.

Again, the chapters are spliced together with real hands played by some big name pro's and as usual these make for interesting and enlightening reading.

This book goes further, introducing chapters about the loose-aggressive style, tells, beating weak games and bankroll management. The LAG style described in the book is treated as an extension of the TAG style, extended with a wider hand range requirement and additional specific type of plays, such as the "squeeze" play, "check-call" bluff and "check-raise" bluff.
 
Beating weak games in an interesting chapter where a weak game is described as a game where players are for the most part straightforward, unobservant, one-dimensional, don't respect raises and draw chasers.

The book concludes with an interview of Bobby Hoff, who is not well known to the general public, but who is considered to be one of the best no-limit texas hold'em player in the world.

Cash Games belongs to the library of all Texas Hold'em players. Reading it will provoke plenty of thoughts, open new avenues of cogitation, help clog leaks and definitively improve how you play texas holdem on the Internet and in live games.

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