My poker library
 

Since my shipment just arrived I'll do a [brag, beat or variance you judge] post and encourage others to do the same. I'll try to get it into chronological order:
1) Holdem Poker for Advanced Players
This got me started, my thinking went somewhere along the lines of "no beginners book needed, I'm too good for that" and all I knew about Poker from googling was that there were some starting hands charts by a guy named Sklansky and I figured if you got that chart you're good to go :P
2) Small Stakes Holdem (Miller)
3) Harrington on Hold'em 1
4) Harrington on Hold'em 2
5) Lille Green Book
6) No Limit Hold'em Theory and Practice
7) Read them and Reap
8) Tournament Poker for Advanced Players
9) Kill Phil
10) Ace on the River
11) Mathematics of Poker
12) Theory of Poker
13) Harrington on Hold'em 3
14) Little Blue Book
15) Making the Final Table
16) Poker Tournament Formula
17) Super System 2
18) Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition

19) Positively 5th Street
20) Big Deal
21) The Professor, the Banker and the Suicide King
22) The Biggest Game in Town

I'm sure I missed one along the line. 19-22 are not "Strategy Books" the rest are.

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In no specific order

HFAP
TPFAP
Harrington I, II, and III
Poker Essays I, II, and III
Sklansky on Poker- just borrowing it though
Stud/8 and O/8 by Ray Zee
SSII
Positively Fifth Street
Ace on the River
Caro's poker tell book
NLHE Theory and Practice- very good book


leaving out a ton

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Here's mine:

Poker for dummies
Idiot's guide to poker
How to be a nit
Table Captaining in 1 week
Low Stakes play
How to put Dustin on tilt


I think I have some 2+2 books around, but I do not want to reveal them [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I don't own any poker books. When I was but a wee lad of 17, I moved to Montreal all on my own. For the first 2 weeks, I had no internet connection, no TV, school hadn't started, and I knew NOBODY, so I had alot of free time on my hands.

I started spending everyday in Chapters just reading books, and on my second day I stumbled upon Super System II by Doyle Brunson. Given that I had played a few Hold'Em games at my friends house before, I figured I would read that part.

From then on, I became obsessed with poker, and during those two weeks in Chapters, I read Hold'em For Advanced Players, Theory of Poker, Harrington I, II, Ace on the River and Caro's Book of Tells.

And then my life as a degen took off, as I took my first semester book money and deposited it onto Party.

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I've got:

1) Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players (first purchase, and was accidental, i thought it had NL stuff in there too)
2) Tournament Poker for Advanced Players
3) Caro's Book of Tells
4) Super System
5) Super System 2
7) Positively 5th Street
8) Ace on the River
9) Harrington on Holdem 1 (on loan to bobo)
10) HOH 2 (on loan to bobo)
11) Kill Phil (on loan to bobo)
12) Theory and Practice of NL Hold'em
13) Bad Beats and Lucky Draws (lol)
14) The Professor, Banker and Suicide King
15) Cards by Johnathan Maxwell (fiction book)
16) Mathematics of Poker (just arrived yesterday)

I'm probably forgetting one or two that I own. I've read every single one cover to cover, and a few of them multiple times (except Mathematics of Poker obv). These books without a doubt helped me a TON, and have been worth every penny (even the sucky ones).

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Lol traz, this story reminds me of a bunch of phreakers and how they started [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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Oh, I've read the Biggest Game in Town, but don't own it. Good book!

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The Professor, Banker and Suicide King

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Best book in the thread so far! Michael Craig is the man!

(not the most profitable, but the best)

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The Professor, Banker and Suicide King

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Best book in the thread so far! Michael Craig is the man!

(not the most profitable, but the best)

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I'd have to go with Positively Fifth Street

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even if McManus is a douche

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Ok, which strategy books have you all really read all the way through? I have most of these, but the only ones I have actually read every word of are:

Theory of Poker
HPFAP
HOH 1
HOH 2

I read the first chapter of mathematics of poker. I read very little of Psychology of Poker, NL Theory and Practice, and 7CSFAP. I read most of High-Low Split Poker. I have $300 worth of strategy books that I have probably gotten $100 worth of reading from.

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even if McManus is a douche

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Yo, he was defending the integrity of the game, bro!

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I've got HFAP and TPFAP. I've read 'em cover to cover. I've got a bunch more on my wishlist so who knows when some relative will decide to support my degenerecy for some gift giving occasion.

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Tao of Poker FTW

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My library is somewhere between 50 and 100 books. I would say I have read at least 90% all the way through at least once; it takes a very bad book for me to just not finish it, like "Beyond Tells".

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no books here [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Tao of Poker FTW

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I really did not care for that, but I must have read zen and the art of poker a dozen times when I was just starting to obsess on the game.

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I read some Robert Asprin book that had a game called Dragon Poker or some such in it. Does that count?

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Oly one book in my library. The only one needed:


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I have read and reread everything up to the 12 spot. The rest just arrived today. Well I did read some of the SS2 stuff online before.

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No one has the awesome Weighing the Odds in Hold 'Em by King Yao? Really? I'm very surprised.

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No one has the awesome Weighing the Odds in Hold 'Em by King Yao? Really? I'm very surprised.

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That is one of my 50-100 [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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I haven't played a lick since November, but here's the collection I have:

- Play Poker Like The Pros (cut me some slack, it was my first book)
- Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players
- Tournament Poker for Advanced Players
- Small Stakes Hold'em
- Harrington on Hold'em part I & II
- Pot Limit & No-Limit Poker

Before I ever got into playing I found "Big Deal" at the public library. Interesting read then, would probably better understand it now.

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books are overrated

practice makes perfect

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I agree, but without the books I would never have done near as well as I did.

(Not that I tore it up, but still ...)

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Okay my collection

The Complete Guide to Poker (bought about 20 years ago and written in 1967)
Positively Fifth Street
Play Poker Like The Pros
Super System
Holdem Poker for Advanced Players (as my son just said to me "Why do you have that book?")
Killer Poker Online (a gift but without a doubt the worst book ever written about poker)
H on H V I
Theory of Poker
H on H V II

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books are overrated

practice makes perfect

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QFT

In addition to some of the above, I have a couple by ciaffone and rubenstein: Big Bet Poker, and another one. They're quite interesting, but really collections of standalone essays.

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Theory of Poker
Hold'em Poker For Advanced Players 21st Century Edition
Harrington on Hold'em I

The first two I bought at once. I didn't know HEPFAP was about limit when I bought it, though. Oops.

I think I may be trying to sell these now, though. Not because they're bad books, but because I've quit poker, heh.