Posted by Dr Fro 3:13 PM
As always, Jackpot Jay has a great article.

I also concur that Harrington on Holdem is better than Super System. To me, the biggest difference is that year it was written. Harrington's book better reflects the blind structures and player behaviors in 2005 than S/S does. Of course, S/S still has excellent advice on games other than NL HE.

That being said, I still follow Doyle and not Dan when it comes to QQ. I generally call and only raise to vary play.

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Posted by  Johnnymac, at 7:38 PM, May 25, 2005  

Yup, excellent article by Jackpot Jay. I am especially keen on his explanation why the big names probably won't ever win the WSOP main event again. Lederer has even made the point himself a lot lately. This is also why Harrah's created the "Tournament of Champions" and structured it in such a way so as it's relatively exclusive and will eventually replace the WSOP as the premiere event. The WSOP has just gotten too big, for the reasons that Jay explains.

And I agree on QQ - either play it very very cautiously against serious action or play it as strong as you can, but never slowplay or othwerwise make a lot of action. I think Dan makes a good point that QQ can't stand callers the way that AA or KK can, contrary to the conventional wisdom that lumps QQ (and AK, also an overplayed hand) in with AA and KK.

Anyway, Dan's book is good. I agree.

(btw - what is Dan's posse called? Is he a big fan of some obscure city like Juarez or Wichita because of the kickin' social scenes and all of the fine "babies"? Does Dan Harrington even have hangers-on?)

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