Hi folks,
right now i'm working through Dan Harrington's astonishing first book.
It seems that he really didn't forget an issue 
Nevertheless, in the first sample hand he talks about volatility. He says that you should decrease volatility as a better player at the table and increase, when you consider yourself as a not so good player at the table. I don't understand why?
I guess i don't even understand exactly what he means with volatility (he talks about money swing on the hand; Is it the money in the pot, or what?
Thanks in advance
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when you are a bad player you want luck to play a bigger role, and when you are a good player you want luck to be less important , thats how i understood it.
but i dont realy know how i would put it to practice .
harrington book is good for tournaments but for cash games not so much.
Yes, decreasing luck by getting less money into the pot and thus building your stack more steadily sounds plausible.
Harrting means that if ur a bad player, u shouldnt mind 50/50 situations for stacks that much, like AQ vs 77. But if ur a good player, u shouldnt wanna risk all ur chips on a coinflip, and fold and wait for a better spot.
Reducing volatility is just pot control. If you're a good player, if you have good position etc, Harrington suggests that you don't raise too much pre-flop, don't build up the pot too much, which in turn keeps you from putting a great deal of dependence on whether or not you and your opponents hit the flop.