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Harrington on Hold 'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. II: Endgame

Harrington on Holdem Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments Vol II EndgameAnother great work by Harrington and Robertie! In fact, this book is even more powerful than the earlier volume. The book presents the authoritative text on how to think about as well as play a final table of a no limit hold em tournament. In this process, they have further redefined the game.

These two gentlemen introduce an entirely new lexicon about no limit poker: red zones, inflection points, green zones, dead zones, probe bets, as well as continuation bets.

The book has several terms and phrases, which help in clarifying the various intuitive concepts related to no limit tournament play, which are explained in a very simple manner. As a matter of fact, you may never have read a simpler or clearer book, with more powerful explanations for them. As it is, players enter the various  stages, with the stack size growing and lowering the final table of a tournament. Quit like this, with other critical conceptions in no limit plays like final table play, continuation and probe bets. The authors take the ideas that exceptional players have instinctively recognized but till now have never totally expressed as well as compiled them in clear, simple language, which any player with moderate experience may readily grasp and inculcate. The hand examples that the authors think us through add to a better understanding of the game.

Even saying that this is a must-read book for each serious hold em player would be an understatement in itself. As a matter of fact, this book is cheduled to change the way, the entire game would be played in future. As a matter of fact, this book has the potential to direct further texts on the subject, to come up in the times to come.


Posted on : Sep 12 2009
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