I am just reading harrington on cash games.. The majority of the examples in the book are full ring game and he advises in 1 example laying poket 5's down in the bb, the games $2- $4 with 1 raise of $12 and a single call action to you pot $30 costing just $8 to call giving you odds 3 1/5 to 1 .. Would this be a standard call in a 6 max game ? for set vaule and just give it up if the flop misses you.

example 2 ........ You hold Aj os in the bb again game is $2 - $4 Yet again raise from early postion to $16 call from the button action to you pot $38 cost you $12 to call ? Now i know AJ is no power house hand and can get u in trouble but 6 max are we calling or folding this ?

Some of the advice seems really tight but i don't play full ring games as i prefer 6max.

example 1 with 55 i'm calling 100% i can't possibly see his logic in that laydown, unless there is a player specific read like he will only stack off with the stone cold nuts or something, folding is supertight IMO 6 max or full ring
example 2 i'm folding this full ring to players i know to be solid with their opening raises from early. 6 max i'm either reraising as a steal or folding probably reraising 20% folding 80%, and obviously folding to any repop

FWIW i have read harrington and i found the material to be well formed and easy to get through, his basic concepts about the metagame etc are great, and his ideas about randomizing are useful, but i felt his comments on some examples were supertight, especially with respect to online games, i felt as tho it was a very good book to help with live game play if you wanna go for the low variance grind.

I don't have the book in front of me - but from memory, I think the 55 example, in particular, took into account stack sizes. The idea is that the other stacks did not have the requisite (i.e. 20X) stack sizes to make set mining worthwhile. He goes onto to state that for the 55 to provide value you have to hit your set and then your opponent has to pay you off and then he has to have enough money to pay you off nicely. In this case, the stack sizes did not make it possible to get enough return to justify trying to set mine here.

it's more important to understand why he suggests what he suggest, then to actually just memorize it and apply it... every situation is unique... but if you understand his advice and apply his concepts you will be a succesfull low variance live cash game player

i pick up this book whenever i get insomnia cuz it is so boring

Harrington is a huge NIT imo ldo

lol i agree

The book has almost no relevance to 100BB 6Max games online.

However, for a 5/10NL 200BB+ live full ring game, it's excellent.

ironic imo

I was just about to say, there must be something about stacksize in example #1. Haven't read the book, but for standard 100bb+ there is no way in hell I am folding 55 there.

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