Harrington's book

[aceragclubs]

Sorry if this should be posted in the books section, but just wondering who is reading Harrington's new book and if it is any good. And, what people think the best books are on strictly multi-table tournaments. I've got a Barnes and noble gift card to burn....thought I'd try to improve the game a little! Thanks,

Aceragclubs

[Rob-L]

I just began reading it. As a limit player who is trying to learn the nuances of no-limit I find it very interesting so far. I cannot fairly compare it to other no-limit books, because I haven't read any other NL books. It is geared toward NL Tournaments, not NL cash games. However, it could probably be useful for NL cash games too.

One thing I do like is that he discusses playing using different styles and does a compare/contrast of why playing conservative in one case may be better than playing aggressively and vice versa.

Many books I have seen seem to advocate playing "Tight Agressive" and the entire book is built around playing in that manner. Not so in Dan's book. It does a really good job of explaining how to use different styles in different situations and at different points of a tournament.

I haven't finished it, but so far it is great and I've peeked ahead a little be and it seems to be highly informative and different from other NL books I have browsed.

Rob-L

[nolanfan34]

I think it's excellent for someone who wants to improve their tournament game. I'll be the first to admit, that while I have the ability to get near the money most of the time, I have hands all of the time in tournaments that come up where I feel lost. Harrington's book will certainly help you improve your thought process throughout the hands you play.

I also concur about the playing styles section - and later throughout the book he makes references about how hands change in certain situations based on these styles - specifically how to react to them in certain situations.

Another interesting note is that many of the hand problems he uses are situations for one-table tournaments and one-table satellites. So it's not just limited to multi-table tournament play.

I highly recommend it. My gripe with TPFAP has always been that it doesn't address a lot of the nuts and bolts of playing specific hands PF, and post-flop, but HOHE does a great job of that. Volume two is going to be great as well, I'd imagine.

[binions]

Got mine yesterday. I'm about 100 pages into it. Excellent material. Well worth it.