Cash game player switching to tournaments

[golfmark]

I have been playing live cash games for last couple of years and was never really intersted in tournaments. I would play some small buy in tournaments for fun, but never really knew a tournament strategy. I have been sucessfull over the past couple of years playing $1/2 NL Hold'em up to $5/$10 NL Hold'em live. I have also read books related to cash games.

I am now looking for a good book that is going to transition me into live tournament play(i.e. How to play a short stack, when I need to move all in based on blinds and antes, anything else I don't know about tournaments because I just play cash, etc.). Any suggestions?

[Gelford]

Harrington 1&2 for MTTs

The forthcoming Collin Moshmann book for one table Sit'n'goes.


Holla !

[tribet]

Buy the Harrington on Hold-em Books first. The best by far you will not regret it. The new Full Tilt book is very good but read Harrington first

[tsearcher]

For someone with the cash game experience you have "Tournament Poker for Advanced Players", by David Sklansky, and "Kill Phil" by Blair Rodman and Lee Nelson might be better books to start off with than HOH.

[steamboatin]

Do you have a full head of hair and are you willing to risk pulling it out when sucked out by Donkeys and bitten in the ass by variance?

[saeute]

You should read harrington 2 in my opinion. As you are a cash-game player, you should know how to play deep stack poker in a tournament. That's why you dont really need HoH1.

[tribet]

Im lost here. How is kill Phil better than HOH?
To me HOH is far better books and much better theory

[tsearcher]

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Im lost here. How is kill Phil better than HOH?
To me HOH is far better books and much better theory

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HOH 1 is very basic, there isn't anything in there that a successful cash game player wouldn't already know. As far as HOH2 goes, that's probably more of a personal bias I have and OP should get it. But I think the Sklansky book gives you a real good foundation of theory. "Kill Phil" is almost a part 2 to Sklansky's book and has a real good explanation of Push Fold strategy which OP was asking about. He should already understand small ball from his cash game experience.

[jeffnc]

Read HoH II first. I've seen snippets of the Full Tilt book and it looks pretty good. Then read Snyder - there is some good info in there on different tournament structures, and more about using things other than your cards to accumulate chips. It also hammers home the idea that it's worth more risk to place higher in the payoff structure. That's one thing that's difficult to get used to compared to cash games. In cash games your chips are worth what they're worth. In tournaments, it's very difficult to figure out what they're worth. That's why Harrington is not the be-all end-all to tournament books. It doesn't explain that concept well.

[Montrealcorp]

i would read little green book first then hoh 1,2&3