Customer Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Great Book For No-Limit Cash and Tournaments, Apr 29, 2023
This book is written as a guide for tournaments but it can be used for great success in cash games I believe even more than tournaments. The strategies are inherent to being a good cash game player.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
 Very good but do not get carried away, Apr 26, 2023
This book is good in that it covers a couple of topics never covered before:
-Style of play, conservative/aggressive, super aggressive and how to counter each style
-Pot odds and implied odds and how to use this in conjunction with your opponents play and style. Rather than a study on odds
-Starting Hand values according to style and position.
-Practical problems that are deeper in comments and strategy than any other NLHE book ever published. (Including Middle Limit NLHE). These really put you inside the head of one of the top Pros.
What is evident is that Harrington is a very sophisticated player and the depth of thinking required to play NLHE at the highest levels cannot be covered in one book. References are made to other books by Sklansky for instance.
Feel free to incorporate this new knowledge into your play but understand at the higher levels so will your opponents.
The main lesson from Harrington is that we must each think for ourselves and incorporate our natural style but understand that at different stages of a tournament we must play tighter or looser.
Harrington has had good success recently and we must ask why compared to the super aggressive players such as Negraneau and Ivey, the answer may be that in super large fields less sophisticated players are less bluffable and more willing to draw out all in. (Remember Men the Master's Aces getting cracked by a 20% draw out by an all in internet player at the 2004 WSOP main event.)
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
 it is worth, Apr 23, 2023
I have read a lot of poker books and I have acquired a good understanding of strategy in conjuction with other texts, especially from applied mathematics and gambling psychology. This book explains in depth the strategy, reading hands and even psychology in an enjoyable manner. But I think it still has no full coverage of odds calulus, interpretation and math behind the poker. I found Catalin Barboianu's "Texas Hold'em Odds" far superior on this count. I recommend it as a completion for this book.
2 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
 Boring Read & Boring Style, Apr 22, 2023
I know both he & his Red Sox are World Champs recently, but his book is overly hyped. It was bit tedious to read, and his style of play is incredibly boring. Due to his recent success (luck), his popularity and stature is a bit higher than some other top players, so people see his slow style of play as the "correct" way to play. However his style of play is very different (makes playing poker boring) and more importantly less successful (profitable) than that of most top players: Brunson, Ivey, Negreanu, Hellmuth, Hansen and even young up and comers like D'Agostino or Arieh or even last year's champ Raymer. Harrington even mentions in his own book than there are different styles of play that are successful, but he doesn't teach them. He only excels in playing at relatively boring, slow pace. This book isn't completely crap, however I think it's overrated and sometimes incorrect, so I'm giving it 1 star.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Have to own it..., Apr 21, 2023
Though this book is labeled "Expert Strategy", it is extremely useful for anyone that has general knowledge for the game. If you know the basics of pot & expressed odds, position at the table, and rules to the game, this book is great for you. Though the book does lean toward a somewhat conservative style, Dan touches on types of plays and the pros/cons of each as well as how to play against them. He backs up all of his decisions and opinions with probabilities and explanations. His examples are great, taking some from hands that he actually had played. He took three or more examples directly from the 2003 WSOP final table, and went through step by step of why each player made the move he did. One aspect that I really enjoyed about this book was the problems at the end of each section. The problems illustrate not only what you should do and why, but several were devoted to the effects of making a wrong play, and then goes into explanation of why it was wrong, what happened because you made the play, and comparing it to if you would have made the right play. As well as how you shouldn't try to play too much like you see on WPT on Wednesday nights as the editing of the program makes it seem like a game of huge bluffs, all-in bets, and fancy slowplays and check-raises where in reality what the Travel Channel edited down to an 45 minutes or less of coverage actually took place over 5-10 hours of play. And he is first to point out how the wrong play can win you some big pots, but why it was still wrong, like raising with A-8 suited under the gun.
Basically, it's a great book for the beginner to the expert. Must have for your poker collection.
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