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06-19-2005, 09:34 PM
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| | | How good is HOH2?
since i finished reading it, i have 13 10+1 Party poker SNG's, with a ROI of 74.83% (5 firsts).
between 1/1/2005 and when i started reading HOH2, i had 70 of these SNG's with a ROI of -4% (8 1sts, 6 2nds, 8 3rds).
obviously, shorterm variance is at play. but using M as a factor in when to make my moves and the idea that any two will do at m<5 has opened things up for me. oh yeah, and chapter 8 (making moves) has helped too.
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06-19-2005, 10:40 PM
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| | | That's exciting. Is this a good early read for a intermediate player? |
06-30-2005, 12:27 AM
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| | | Not to sound ignorant, but what is HOH2? |
06-30-2005, 07:05 AM
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| | | Harrington on Hold Em 2. It is a two book series. I'm halfway through the first one and after reading nearly everything else I can see that his books are perhaps the best. He's actually presenting NEW information that is simply not addressed in other books. They are tournament based books and if you are a tournament player these books should be your bible. |
06-30-2005, 07:32 AM
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| | | jojo,
Have you read both volumes? Or only volume 2?
Do you find that Volume 2 is better geared towards online SNGs? And if so, can you read the 2nd one without reading the first? |
06-30-2005, 07:36 AM
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| | | I haven't gotten to the second one but I believe they were written to be read in order. |
06-30-2005, 07:39 AM
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| | | they're both for tournies. i've read them both.
you could read 2 first, i guess. i wouldn't recommend it.
1 is geared towards early rounds, when stacks are relatively deep. on party poker sngs, that means round one only...
2 addresses bluffing, shorthanded play, and play when stacks are less than deep (most of the PP sng structure).
i would recommend you read 'em both. maybe someone wants to loan 'em out. not me, unfortunately (i've got some people lined up at this end). |
06-30-2005, 07:42 AM
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| | | You'll definately want to read them in order as he constantly refers to the first one in the second volume.
Great, great books. I can't recommend them enough.
Congrats on the success JoJo. Hope it keeps up.
After reading the first few sections I found that I'm getting farther in the multi table tournaments.
I've played 9 of the $1 45 person tournaments on stars. With 7 positions paying I've finished 2,5,7,8,8,10,12,43,42
The last 2 were running into a set with an overpair and top pair vs bottom 2 pair where I misplayed the hand badly preflop. |
06-30-2005, 07:48 AM
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| | | It bears mention that there are a lot of folks on 2+2 who think Vol II is filled with bad advice. I haven't gotten through much of it (still haven't finished 100 pages) but from what I've seen it looks pretty good. Most of the objections were with the example problems.
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06-30-2005, 07:50 AM
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| | | Re: How good is HOH2?
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Originally Posted by jojobinks since i finished reading it, i have 13 10+1 Party poker SNG's, with a ROI of 74.83% (5 firsts).
discuss. | Jojo, you really need to move up to the $30+3s as there really isn't a big difference in ability until you get to the $50+5s (the level I'm currently playing - I'm up a little so far).
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