Recently I have been reading Dan Harrington’s books on cash games, intriguingly titled “Harrington on Cash Games”.  I’ve been doing this for 2 reasons: first, I would like to play a bit more cash in Vegas and I am aware of how different the discipline is from tournament play, and second, the early stages of deep stack tournaments play very similiarly to cash games, and I feel that getting a decent cash game strategy will enable me to be far ore comfortable at these stages – bear in mind that most of the tournaments I play in Vegas are very deep stacked, (except the WSOP).

I haven’t read Harrington since reading his essential books on tournament poker, and I’d forgotten how good a writer on poker he and his co-writer Bill Robertie are.  It’s a great read, and I’m already incorporating certain aspects of it into my play.  Generally, my play in tournaments has been quite aggressive pre-flop and on the flop, and more circumspect after – I prefer the decisions to be easier and the situations I play to be less complex. Sensible stuff really, I’ve no problem with it and it’s served me well.  However, it’s not a good strategy for cash games, and I would very much like to broaden my skills on the later streets of a hand, and I already feel I am making good progress here.

I guess we’ll know a bit more when I hit the $1-$2 NLH tables at Caesars Palace…

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