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