OT: Books That Have Made The Most Positive Impact on Your Game

[Solitare]

Winning Low Limit Hold'em, Lee Jones. The book that started me out has had the greatest impact, the rest have been incremental.

[schwah]

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Honestly, the nlh section of super/system was the first book I read that really opened my eyes as to how poker should be played.

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the first time i read that i turned into a huge spewtard for like 2 weeks and donked off half my roll trying to win every pot

[Jeff76]

HOH1- Basic NLHE
HOH2- More tournament specific play with short stacks
HOH2- Improved my post flop play
TOP- Helped me understand poker and why it can be beaten
SSHE- Helped me understand odds (it's a limit book)
NLHE:TAP- Helped my deepstack NLHE game and understanding implied odds better

2+2 Forum: Helped me apply all this to real world situations, learn about stealing/restealing, dealing with variance, and mixing up my game.

[Confused1]

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the first time i read that i turned into a huge spewtard for like 2 weeks and donked off half my roll trying to win every pot

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Me too....

[diebitter]

in order of most useful first:

1. HoH1
2. HoH2
3. NLHET&P
4. Theory of Poker
5. Getting Started in Holdem - Miller (very underrated compared to other small stakes holdem books, the section on shortstack should be known by heart by decent ring players)
6. Phil Gordon's Little Green Book (but only some parts)
7. Kill Phil - it finally helped realise pushbotting in certain spots is +EV sink in.
8. H0H3
9. Little Blue Book

[unconscious]

HLHE FAP - Sklansky/Malmuth

[THAY3R]

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Winning Low Limit Hold'em, Lee Jones. The book that started me out has had the greatest impact, the rest have been incremental.

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This was my first book I read(not counting Hellmuth's) and it helped greatly since I started off playing no foldem games and it made me realize that poker was a game that I could make money off of.

I remember paying my friend to go to class and take notes for me because the 2/4(limit) game on Party was too juicy for me to leave [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[betgo]

In approximate order

-- Doyle's chapter on NLHE in SS is the best and most influential.

-- NLHTP is also excellent and rivals SS as a guide to NLHE cash games.

-- "Making the Final Table" by Lindgren tells you how to play players and situations in major tournaments. Learned a lot about how to play small ball.

-- "Sklansky on Poker" is the bible is you want to play razz.

-- HOH 1 & 2. The text parts are very good. A classic work. The problems are uneven. Part of the weakness may be Harrington's style: he seems good at the math and strategy, but he plays tight because he is not as good at postflop play.

-- Other articles in SS2. Todd Brunson's chapter on Stud/8 and Jennifer Harmen's on limit holdem are excellent.

-- "Tournament Poker" by Sklansky. Only about 1/4 of it is on NLHE. Also, it constantly emphasizes playing to survive. Still some key concepts.

-- SSHE is excellent. I got some important ideas out of it, but I don't play loose limit holdem games much.

-- "Play Poker Like the Pros" is a good beginners book. The material on NLHE and tournaments is excellent so far as it goes. I think the book got a bad rap because the limit holdem section advises a hyperaggressive style, which is correct for tight games, but ridiculous for loose low limit games.

-- The book on playing O/8 and Stud/8 for Advanced Players. You really need it if you are going to play those games.

[PokerGenius]

I can't believe no one mentioned "Ace on the River". It tells you the core of poker, other books takes 100s of pages to explain what comes from the core. Better to understand it yourself.

[BushPwnsAll]

HoH 1 and 2 are good. The 3rd one is trash and boring.