Harrington on online cash games : 6-max no-limit hold'em PDF
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Harrington on Online Cash Games 6-Max No-Limit Hold ’em By DAN HARRINGTON 1995 World Champion BILL ROBERTIE A product of ‘Two Plus Two Publishing LLC * ivy + = +7 [aa FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING June 2010 “When a mn vith money’ the man with experience leaves with mio and the man with money leaves wth experience = Anon Table of Contents About Dan Harrington About Bill Robertie Introduction Osganiation ofthe Book Part One: Basie No-Limit Hold ‘em Concepts Introduction Steuctare: Full Ring versus 6-Max Seat Nimes Style: Tight and Loose, Aggressive and Passive ‘Straightforward Players and Tricky Players Ranges Position ‘The Four Basie Principles of No-imit lol ‘ent No. I: The Strength Principle No. 2: The Aggression Principle No. 3 The Betting Principle No. 4: The Deception Principle ing Hand Ranges ‘Opening Irom Later Pasitions Bot Sizing for Opening Raines Varying Your Ruive Sizes Peetlop Limping 3-and 4-Betting Peclop Flop: Heads-LIp or Muliiway Heads-Up om the Flop ‘Multiway on the Flop op Table of Contents Types of Bets on the Flop Value Bets Burts Semi-Blufs Continvation Bets Dank Bets Information Bet ‘Understanding Hlop Texture ‘Bet Sizing onthe Flop and Later Streets laying the Tura Betting the Turn Checking the Tum, Playing the River Expectation and Expected Value Pot Odds Expressed and Implied Odds Reverse Implied Odds Stack Sizes Short Stacks Medium Stacks Full Stacks Deep Stacks Tailoring Your Steatogy 0 the Stuck Size Implied Odds Hand Sirengih and Pot Size Pot Comamitaeat Stack to Pot Ratio Part Two: Playing Online Tntexvtion Online Play versus Live Play Stakes Muli-Tablin Physical Reads uy-Ins Summary | —— ee ‘Table of Contents it Databases 96 Heads-Up Displays (HUDs) 96 Understanding PokerTracker Data oT Basic Information 7 Te Cla 9 Other Useful Preflop Statistics 16d Post-Hop Action Statistics 107 Post-Flop Summary Statistics na Constructing Your HUD 16 ‘AMinimal HUD lis A More Useful HUD nT A Very Detaled HUD ns Conserving Space 119 Drawing Inferences reat ‘Sample HUD No. 1 RI (ur Game Plan 13 Sample HUD No. 2 1m (Que Game Plan 12s Sample HUD No, $ 126 ‘Our Game Plan Ds. Monitoring Our Own HUD 28 Other HUD Statistics BI Taking Notes 135 Sirueturing Our Notes 138 [Notes Unselated to Specific Hands 1s Preflop Noses 140 General Post-Flop Notes 12 Flop Notes Lis ‘Turn Notes 148 River Notes 149 ‘Some Examples of Nove-Taking 149 ‘Sample Hand No. 1 150 ‘Sample Hand No.2 152 ‘Sample Hand No.3 154 iv Table of Contents Making Notes after a Session Fist Allin Hand Second Allin Hand Conclusions Final Thoughts Multi-Vabling Tast Thought on Muli-Tabliag Selecting Sites, Tables, and Seats Selecting a Site Big or Small, Now or Old? Database Suppant? Datamining? Hones Player Strength? Rake and Rakeback? Rakabacks and Bonuses? Solecting a Vale Exalnating Your Seat Part Thrce: Ranges and Distributions Inwodustion: The Old Way of See What is @ Range? Playing Against a Tight Range Playing Against Looser Opening Ranges Estimating Calling Ranges ‘What is a Distribution? Calculating Distributions Distributions Against 12 Percent Range Disuibutions Against a 25 Percent Range Stusyng Hands Summary Part Four: Beating Micro-Stakes Games Introduction: How Micra-Stakes Players Pay Offense and Defense in Poker ‘Table of Contents v General Advice for Beating Micro-Stakes Games... 250) ‘Starting Hand Guide for Micro-Stakes 6-Max Games . 259 Strategy No.1: Playing Tight... 259 Strategy No, 2: Loosening Up, 261 Blind Stealing - 2st ‘Bot Sing in Micr-Stekes Games... 266 “Attacking Fingers with Isolation Raises 210 Limping and Calling on 3- and <-Beuting in Micro-Stakes Games 216 ‘The Johnny Allin Move - 2283 Playing with Ace-King 287 ‘Value Boring ut Micro Stakes «0.2... 289 ‘Semi-Bluffing at Micro-Stokes 2 295 ‘Tmping 2 298 Dealing with Strong Bets Pose Flop... 303 Looking Forward... an ‘The Problems 2312 Five: Beating Small Stakes Games .. Tnoduction: Moving Up ‘Adapting to Small Sikes Player Types TIUD Statistics ‘Table Seloction Pretlop Runges and Actions General Post-Mlop Tendencies... Flop Play : Turn Play River Play : Fancy Plays Star to Matter. Defense Stars to Matter . ‘Good Hand Reading is Now Important Playing Against Short Stacks | Preflop Starting Hanes rable of Contents ‘Blind Stealing and Blind Defense lind Defense 3 Betting and 4 Betting Responding o an Opening Raise A Sample Situation A Second Exsimple ‘Antacking Weak Raisers Responding toa Jet Flop Tacties at Small Stakes You Wore the Aggressor Peflap Playing Big Hands Playing Top Pai, Top Kicker/Overpair Hans Playing Draws Playing Weak Hands or Nothing Hands Defending Against a Continuation Bet Value Boring in Small Stakes Games “Trouble om the River Extracting Value with Bigger Hands ‘The Problems Glossary . 503 Index sis About Bill Robertie Roberte has spent his life playing and waiting about ‘backgammon, and now poker. He bogan playing chess as inspired by Bohby Fischer's feats the internatiomal chess ‘While attending Tlarvard as an undereraduste, he became master and helped tho Harvard chess team win several sate tiles. After graduation he won a urmher of chess 0s, including the United States Championship at speed 1970. He also established a reputation at blindtald chess, exhibitions on as many as cight hours simultaneously. 18TG ho switched from chess to backgamnws, becoming the top players in the world. His major titles include the Championship in Monte Curloin 1983 nd 1987, the Blac Championship in Boston in 1979, the Las Veyas in 1980 and 2001, the Bahamas Pro-Am in 1993, and saul Workd Open in 1995, has writen several well-regarded buckyamman books; the ted of which are Advanced Backgammon (1991), a fwo- ne evllection of 400 problems, and Modern Backgammon 3), new Took at the underlying theary ofthe gure. He has na set of three books for the beginning player: ganmion for Winners (19%), Beckgummon for Serious (1995), an 501 FssemvialBackgamnvon Problems 1997) He hus cased (ice in the Main Event of the World Series er 12006 & 2008}, Currently, he owns a publishing jthe Gammon Press Cwwwthegammonpress.com), and Arlington, Massachusetts with his wile Pure.
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