Harrington on Online Cash Games

by Harrington, Dan

• ISBN13: 9781880685495
• ISBN10: 1880685493
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: Two Plus Two Pub

Summary

No-Limit hold 'em was once a game played almost exclusively in casinos. But during the last decade, the game's growth has been fueled in part by the easy availability of online playing sites where participants can play cash games and tournaments 24 hours a day, every day.

Author Biography

Dan Harrington won the gold bracelet and the World Champion title at the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold 'em Championship at the 1995 World Series of Poker. And he was the only player to make the final table in both 2003 (field of 839) and 2004 (field of 2,576)---considered by cognoscenti to be the greatest accomplishment in WSOP history.

Table of Contents

About Dan Harrington	p. vii
About Bill Robertie	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Organization of the Book	p. 3
Basic No-Limit Hold 'em Concepts	p. 5
Introduction	p. 6
Structure: Full Ring versus 6-Max	p. 7
Seat Names	p. 12
Style: Tight and Loose, Aggressive and Passive	p. 13
Straightforward Players and Tricky Players	p. 15
Ranges	p. 16
Position	p. 18
The Four Basic Principles of No-Limit Hold 'em	p. 20
The Strength Principle	p. 20
The Aggression Principle	p. 21
The Betting Principle	p. 22
The Deception Principle	p. 22
Opening Hand Ranges	p. 24
Opening from Later Positions	p. 27
Bet Sizing for Opening Raises	p. 29
Varying Your Raise Sizes	p. 31
Preflop Limping	p. 33
3- and 4- Betting Preflop	p. 34
Flop: Heads-Up or Multiway	p. 37
Heads-Up on the Flop	p. 37
Multiway on the Flop	p. 39
Types of Bets on the Flop	p. 42
Value Bets	p. 42
Bluffs	p. 44
Semi-Bluffs	p. 44
Continuation Bets	p. 45
Donk Bets	p. 45
Information Bet	p. 46
Understanding Flop Texture	p. 47
Bet Sizing on the Flop and Later Streets	p. 52
Playing the Turn	p. 55
Betting the Turn	p. 56
Checking the Turn	p. 60
Playing the River	p. 62
Expectation and Expected Value	p. 67
Pot Odds	p. 70
Expressed and Implied Odds	p. 71
Reverse Implied Odds	p. 73
Stack Sizes	p. 75
Short Stacks	p. 75
Medium Stacks	p. 77
Full Stacks	p. 77
Deep Stacks	p. 77
Tailoring Your Strategy to the Stack Size	p. 78
Implied Odds	p. 80
Hand Strength and Pot Size	p. 82
Pot Commitment	p. 85
Stack to Pot Ratio	p. 86
Playing Online	p. 89
Introduction	p. 90
Online Play versus Live Play	p. 92
Stakes	p. 92
Multi-Tabling	p. 93
Physical Reads	p. 94
Buy-Ins	p. 94
Summary	p. 95
Databases	p. 96
Heads-Up Displays (HUDs)	p. 96
Understanding PokerTracker Data	p. 97
Basic Information	p. 97
The Classics	p. 99
Other Useful Preflop Statistics	p. 104
Post-Flop Action Statistics	p. 107
Post-Flop Summary Statistics	p. 113
Constructing Your HUD	p. 116
A Minimal HUD	p. 116
A More Useful HUD	p. 117
A Very Detailed HUD	p. 118
Conserving Space	p. 119
Drawing Inferences	p. 121
Sample HUD No. 1	p. 121
Our Game Plan	p. 123
Sample HUD No. 2	p. 124
Our Game Plan	p. 125
Sample HUD No. 3	p. 126
Our Game Plan	p. 128
Monitoring Our Own HUD	p. 128
Other HUD Statistics	p. 131
Taking Notes	p. 135
Structuring Our Notes	p. 138
Notes Unrelated to Specific Hands	p. 138
Preflop Notes	p. 140
General Post-Flop Notes	p. 142
Flop Notes	p. 145
Turn Notes	p. 148
River Notes	p. 149
Some Examples of Note-Taking	p. 149
Sample Hand No. 1	p. 150
Sample Hand No. 2	p. 152
Sample Hand No. 3	p. 154
Making Notes after a Session	p. 156
First All-in Hand	p. 160
Second All-in Hand	p. 162
Conclusions	p. 162
Final Thoughts	p. 163
Multi-Tabling	p. 164
Last Thought on Multi-Tabling	p. 169
Selecting Sites, Tables, and Seats	p. 171
Selecting a Site	p. 172
Big or Small, New or Old?	p. 172
Database Support?	p. 173
Datamining?	p. 173
Honesty?	p. 174
Player Strength?	p. 175
Rake and Rakeback?	p. 175
Rakebacks and Bonuses?	p. 176
Selecting a Table	p. 178
Evaluating Your Seat	p. 180
Ranges and Distributions	p. 189
Introduction: The Old Way of Seeing	p. 190
What is a Range?	p. 195
Playing Against a Tight Range	p. 196
Playing Against Looser Opening Ranges	p. 205
Estimating Calling Ranges	p. 207
What is a Distribution?	p. 212
Calculating Distributions	p. 217
Distributions Against a 12 Percent Range	p. 218
Distributions Against a 25 Percent Range	p. 223
Studying Hands	p. 228
Summary	p. 243
Beating Micro-Stakes Games	p. 245
Introduction: How Micro-Stakes Players Play	p. 246
Offense and Defense in Poker	p. 247
General Advice for Beating Micro-Stakes Games	p. 250
Starting Hand Guide for Micro-Stakes 6-Max Games	p. 259
Strategy No. 1: Playing Tight	p. 259
Strategy No. 2: Loosening Up	p. 261
Blind-Stealing	p. 264
Bet Sizing in Micro-Stakes Games	p. 266
Attacking Limpers with Isolation Raises	p. 270
Limping and Calling	p. 274
3- and 4- Betting in Micro-Stakes Games	p. 276
The Johnny All-in Move	p. 283
Playing with Ace-King	p. 287
Value Betting at Micro-Stakes	p. 289
Semi-Bluffing at Micro-Stakes	p. 295
Trapping	p. 298
Dealing with Strong Bets Post-Flop	p. 303
Looking Forward	p. 311
The Problems	p. 312
Beating Small Stakes Games	p. 363
Introduction: Moving Up	p. 364
Adapting to Small Stakes	p. 366
Player Types	p. 366
HUD Statistics	p. 368
Table Selection	p. 369
Preflop Ranges and Actions	p. 370
General Post-Flop Tendencies	p. 371
Flop Play	p. 372
Turn Play	p. 373
River Play	p. 373
Fancy Plays Start to Matter	p. 374
Defense Starts to Matter	p. 375
Good Hand Reading is Now Important	p. 376
Playing Against Short Stacks	p. 377
Preflop Starting Hands	p. 378
Blind Stealing and Blind Defense	p. 383
Blind Defense	p. 387
3-Betting and 4-Betting	p. 390
Responding to an Opening Raise	p. 391
A Sample Situation	p. 392
A Second Example	p. 400
Attacking Weak Raisers	p. 402
Responding to a 3-bet	p. 403
Flop Tactics at Small Stakes	p. 408
You Were the Aggressor Preflop	p. 408
Playing Big Hands	p. 409
Playing Top Pair, Top Kicker/Overpair Hands	p. 411
Playing Draws	p. 415
Playing Weak Hands or Nothing Hands	p. 418
Defending Against a Continuation Bet	p. 420
Value Betting in Small Stakes Games	p. 427
Trouble on the River	p. 427
Extracting Value with Bigger Hands	p. 434
The Problems	p. 439
Glossary	p. 503
Index	p. 515
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