2000 pages in 5 weeks

[CasinoR7]

Nice deal, I recommend you to read these books:

Phil Gordon - Little Green Book
Poker Essays, Volume 1/2/3
Inside the Poker Mind
Your Worst Poker Enemy
The Psychology of Poker
The Poker Mindset

[Gelford]

WTF ... and you intend to learn all games ... !!!!????


Yay !



GL with your project [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[phydaux]

No lie, pick one game and focus on that.

Hold'em is what's popular. I recommend ring games. So really your only decition is do you want to play NL or limit? I recommend full ring NL cash games.

The books I'd list would be:

Getting Started in Hold'em (150 pages, 150 so far)
Little Green Book (300 pages, 450 so far)
Professional No Limit (300 pages, 750 so far)
Harrington on Hold'em vol I (300 pages, 1050 so far)
Harrington on Hold'em vol II (300 pages, 1350 so far)
(Even though the HOH series is on tournament play, vol I & half of vol II cover the early portion of a tournament when the stacks are deep relative to the blinds, and that plays just like a cash game.)
Theory of Poker (250 pages, 1650 so far)
Professional No Limit AGAIN (300 pages, 1950 so far)

Make up the last 50 pages by posting question here and discussing the answers we give with your roommate.

Don't play over your roll. Don't play drunk, angry or tired. Straight-forward play could have you crushing 25NL and making a nice profit for yourself and your roommate.

[Sir Pwn A Donk]

I'd throw in Super System II in there as well...could make up for those 50 pages (and more) from the previous list.

[jasonfish11]

Thank you for all of the replys and reconmendations.

I play a lot of NL holdem now (all be it .01/.02 and occassionally .05/.1). I have already read HOH vol. 1.

I would like to learn other games so that I can be a good poker player. I would enjoy being a winning player at multiple games with holdem as my main game.

I havent told him any books I just said I want at least one philosophy or psycology book based around poker and I want Theory of Poker. Im sure little green book and HOH vol. 2 will be in the ones that I get to read.

This should be a fun experiment with working and going to school full time. I guess I will just quit playing poker online and read instead. Maybe I can get him to buy a book about poker philosophy and I can talk my teacher into letting me use it to write one of my reports in my philosophy class.

[benfranklin]

Some really terrible plans here.

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I would like to learn other games so that I can be a good poker player. I would enjoy being a winning player at multiple games with holdem as my main game.



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If you are going to learn a new game, you need to concentrate on it. Don't play anything else, don't read anything else. The 5 weeks would be about right to concentrate on one new game, and then go back to your regular game for a while. You would usually find that you have improved at your regular game after learning the new one.


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I guess I will just quit playing poker online and read instead.

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This makes no more sense than saying that you are a recreational bicycle rider who wants to become competitive, so you are going to stop riding for a month and just read books about bicycle racing.

[CasinoR7]

It's about his friend's offer, which is positive EV for OP. He will get free books and a $1000 bankroll from his friend. His friend has nothing to gain from this deal. OP should gladly take the offer and quickly read 2000 of easy to read poker books. That's why I would recommend him to read poker psychology books or poker story books, like positively fifth streeth/ Ace on the River/ The Professor, the Banker and the suicide King.

[jasonfish11]

My friend does have something to gain if Im a winning player. I will pay him the money he spent back and Im sure I will buy groceries and stuff for the appartment a lot more than he will if I wind up being a winner at higher stakes.

I have played poker almost all of my life so I know the game very well already I just dont have much money to invest in it since Im in college. I will read different books and after the 5 week I will refer back to them like I do the books I have already read.

I know there is no downside for me and my roommate wouldnt have offered unless he thought it would be +EV for him. He knows how I play and whether Im a winning player or not. He deals cards for a living he gets to see who the winners are and how they play Im sure he wouldnt have offered this unless he saw that in me.