Harrington on Modern Poker Tournaments by Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie. Over the last ten years, the enormous growth of interest in poker and poker tournaments has led to an intense focus on the theory of tournament poker. The result was a re-examination of old ideas and the introduction of many new ones. The fundamentals of no-limit hold.
With a tournament, if you're at a tournament with a lot of bad players, and you get knocked out the first hand because you get unlucky, you never get to redo that for most tournaments. You always get kind of a new field of players, and you don't have the opportunity to reenter a tournament. Your only choice is to enter at the first time or not.
This year, marks the 10th anniversary of Harrington on Hold 'Em Volume I which was a landmark poker strategy book by Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie. Their work revolutionized the way many players thought about the game and changed tournament poker forever. As a result of that book, we see much better players in today's tournaments on average than was common 10 years ago.
So my background is that I was an online multi-table tournament grinder, not because I was a great pro, but because I sat more than I played. I was definitely a person who did not play every single tournament. I told you the World Series of Poker has like 25 different tournaments. 10 are Texas Hold'em. And then they have an Omaha tournament.
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Dan's original tournament strategy books were groundbreaking but the new books are probably lacking in comparison to the videos from poker training sites. There are so many young skilled players in today's tournaments out there and I don't think Dan belongs in that group. Younger players who play thousands of tournaments online will most likely have a better grip on the subject than Dan. So.
What has happened is that at each stakes level, the play has become more sophisticated. 10 years ago Harrington would have been profitable knowledge at lower stakes, now with that knowledge you might not even break even. It is useful knowledge.