Posts Tagged ‘games’

February 26th, 2010  Posted at   Dan Harrington

Cash Games (How to Win at No-Limit Hold'em Money Games) Vol. 1

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 a (more…)

February 13th, 2010  Posted at   Doyle Brunson

Super System 2: Winning strategies for limit hold'em cash games and tournament tactics

SS2 features winning strategies and professional secrets from the world’s best players including new advice from Doyle and the addition of no-limit legend Phil Helmuth, holder of the most world series championships ever. Other superstar contributors includr Daniel Negreanu, 4-time bracelet winner, 2004 Player of the Year, and author of three books including Hold’em Wisdsom for all Players; Lyle Berman, 3-time WSOP bracelet winner and founder of the World Poker Tour; Bobby Baldwin, 1978 World Champion; Johnny Chan, 2-timeWorld Champion and 10-time WSOP bracelet winner; the great Mike Caro, ” Mad Genius of Poker”; Jennifer Harman, the world’s top female player; Todd Brunson, winnerof more than 20 tournaments; and Crandell Addington, no-limit legend

About the Author

Livivng Legend Doyle ‘Texas Dolly’ Brunson, the “Godfather of Poker” is a two-time World Series of Pokerchampion and the greatst poker player of all time. He is the author of the best-selling (more…)

February 9th, 2010  Posted at   Dan Harrington

Harrington on Cash Games, Volume II: How to Play No-Limit Hold 'em Cash Games

About the Author

Dan Harrington began playing poker professionally in 1982. On the circuit he is known as Action Dan, an ironic reference to his solid but effective style. He has won several major no-limit hold em tournaments including the European Poker Championships (1995), the $2,500 No-Limit Hold em event at the 1995 World Series of Poker, and the Four Queens No-Limit Hold em Championship (1996). Dan began his serious games-playing with chess, where he quickly became a master and one of the strongest players in the New England area. In 1972 he won the Massachusetts Chess Championship, ahead of most of the top players in the area. In 1976 he started playing backgammon, a game which he also quickly mastered. He was soon one of the top money players in the Boston area, and in 1981 he won the World Cup of backgammon in Washington D.C., ahead of a field that included most of the world s top players. He first played in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold em Championship Event of th (more…)