Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategies for No Limit Tournaments; Volume III:The Workbook

Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategies for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. III--The Workbook (Harrington on Hold'em) author: Dan Harrington Bill Robertie rating: asin: 1880685361 binding: Paperback list price: $29.95 USD amazon price: $19.77 USD

This book is a companion to HOH1 and HOH2 and it consists of 50 hands, presented as quizzes. About half of the hands are from well-known poker pros in televised events, and the other half are anonymous hands from online or live play. Each hand consists of several questions and there is a scoring key so you can have your answers evaluated.

There are a number of notable hands included, such as Jennifer Harman's painful encounter with a straight flush at the 2005 WSOP Main Event and a few hands from the ESPN Superstars II competition with Phil Hellmuth, Hoyt Corkins, Mike Matusow and other well-known players. There are also a number of hands involving Daniel Negreanu and Phil Ivey, two of the most successful No Limit Hold'em tournament players of the last 10 years.

The hands typically have four or five questions revolving around the play at each street. Concepts from the first two books are illustrated, such as applying M to your actions, dealing with aggression, standards for calling all-in and bet sizing. There are also six hands specifically addressing bubble play in Sit & Gos. The book covers a wide variety of situations. In many of the examples you have a marginal but playable hand, so the decisions tend to require some thought. Often more than one answer is reasonable but the authors explain the pros and cons of each choice.

The authors generally employ a small-ball style of play which includes a fair amount of calling preflop and an emphasis on playing with position. They disdain the all-in move that tends to dominate online tournaments.

Overall I would recommend this book to complete the HOH collection, however I wouldn't consider it as indispensable as the previous two books. If you are playing multi-table tournaments either online or live, and like concrete hand examples, then this would be a good addition to your poker library.