Review+of+Harrington+on+Online+Cash+Games

So I got "Action" Dan Harrington's //Harrington on Online Cash Games, 6-Max NLHE// a couple weeks ago, and I've read it several times already. I can't tell you too much about it because I don't want you beating me at the tables. In fact, this book sucks. Don't buy it; run away from it as fast as you can and leave this wiki immediately.

Actually, it's quite an interesting book. The table of contents: Part I is a review of "Basic NLHE Concepts." If you've read Harrington's other works, there's not a lot of new information here, but I will say that this review is modified a bit to suit the particulars of 6-max ring games.

Part II begins his focus on online cash games. He begins with a discussion of HUDs. Do you know what these are? I "kinda" knew, but didn't really know. That is, I knew they existed; I felt like I was losing my money to players with hud's; beyond that, I didn't know shit about 'em. After ordering this book from amazon.com, while waiting for it to arrive, I downloaded Hold'Em Indicator, the trial version. The full version costs $90, which is a lot I suppose. The trial version of HEI only works with play money, and it was neat when I would use it for play money tournaments. In fact, this hud will tell you the "groups" of hands (based on Sklansky's groups) and I found that playing only the top 4 groups of hands, I was able to win about 90% of the time.

But Harrington gears his discussion towards Poker Tracker and its information. So I downloaded that. I have another page for the discussion of HUDs, so I won't say too much about it except this: HOLY SHIT does this give you a bunch of information. Because Harrington speaks of it so much, I dl'ed Poker Tracker and have used it a couple times. But back to the review....