Mathematics of Poker and what else?

DMoogle · #1 10-22-2007, 12:17 AM

I'm thinking about buying Mathematics of Poker (reviews?), and probably another book as well. But I have no idea what else I should have to add to my poker library.

I play $5/$10 NLHE online, FWIW. I also occasionally play MTTs, but I suck at them. Here is what I currently have:

The Poker Player's Bible (lol, first poker book though)
Internet Texas Hold 'em
Ace on the River
Caro's Book of Poker Tells
Super System I
Small Stakes Hold 'em
Poker Wisdom of a Champion
Bobby Baldwin's Winning Poker Secrets
Theory of Poker
Inside the Poker Mind
The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King
Harrington of Hold 'em I
Harrington of Hold 'em II
No-Limit Hold 'em: Theory and Practice
Professional No-Limit Hold 'em

So... what else?

fraac · #2 10-22-2007, 12:19 PM

Why not read some of those first?

mecbluefugate · #3 10-22-2007, 12:44 PM

he is implying that he has, i think

fraac · #4 10-22-2007, 12:47 PM

Oh.

DMoogle · #5 10-22-2007, 03:50 PM

I've read all except for PNL, which I'm halfway through. I also need to re-read HOH I+II, because it's been a while and I don't think I really absorbed it the first time.

SuperUberBob · #6 10-23-2007, 01:32 AM

Mathematics of Poker is a very heavy book. It's 300 some odd pages, but it's a lot of small text and numbers that hurt my head (I suck at any math beyond basic calc). It has the feel of a college textbook more than an actual poker book which turned me off from it.

Jim C · #7 11-04-2007, 06:39 PM

Bob Ciaffone's Pot-Limit and No-Limit
Roy Cooke's Real Poker II: The Play of Hands
Chen and Ankenman's Mathematics of Poker

MoP is an absolutely brilliant book. I consider it Theory of Poker II. It *is* tough, but 100% worth it. It does not require any math beyond high-school level Calculus. The most complex math is finding local minima or maxima by setting the first derivative to zero. If you want to know the Allen Cunningham, Chris Ferguson, and Bill Chen kind of poker math, this is where you find it. The push or fold derivation is worth it alone.

Ciaffone's book is old-school cash NL. The only good NL book outside of 2+2 IMHO.

Roy Cooke's book is basically his thought process of hands he's played. They are all limit, but the hand reading examples are worth it for any kind of poker.

FWIW,

Jim