Recommended Poker Books

[Div]

Can you knowledgeable Blondeites advise on the following please?

I'm looking to buy a few more poker books, to extend my knowledge a little. I need the help!!

I started with Tom McEvoy's Beat Texas Hold em, then progressed to Sklansky's Theory of Poker, and Malmuth's Small Stakes Hold Em. Now I want to get a few books which focus on specific areas.....

For tournament Hold Em most people seem to recommend Harrington On Hold Em. Would you agree with this?

Also what books would people recommend for the following:

- cash No Limit Hold Em
- cash Omaha
- cash Omaha Hi/Lo

All advice appreciated.

[Karabiner]

I am not too sure about how "knowledgable" that I am, but

I'm 2/3rds of my way through Harrington's oevre.

I'm impressed !

Best poker book I've read for a year or two.

[redsimon]

- cash No Limit Hold Em
- cash Omaha
- cash Omaha Hi/Lo

All advice appreciated.

Reuben & Ciaffione (sp) No Limit & pot Limit Poker

Ciaffione Omaha Holdem "The Action Game"

O8...Only seen Limit books, I liked Zee's Hi Lo Split book (2+2) and Mark Tenner/Lou Krieger Omaha 8 How to win at? Don't think I've seen any PLO8 books

[Robert HM]

I started with Tom McEvoy's Beat Texas Hold em, then progressed to Sklansky's Theory of Poker, and Malmuth's Small Stakes Hold Em. Now I want to get a few books which focus on specific areas.....

How did you get on with the Theory of Poker? Just going through it now, a bit dry.

I was also recommended Harrington.

[Div]

How did you get on with the Theory of Poker? Just going through it now, a bit dry.

I was also recommended Harrington.

I think I bought it too soon. I really need to play a lot more to get more experience before properly understanding how to apply the advice in my play. It's heavy duty and, as you say, very dry.

Plus, at the levels I play at (2/4 Limit, $100 No Limit), most of the advice is wasted on my opponents. If some guy called your 3BB raise with medium pockets, and he is holding K3 sooted and caught a K on the flop, there's nothing you can do to make him fold!

It's a book I reckon I will reread in the future when I've enough cash to play against more serious players.

On the other hand, Small Stakes Hold Em is perfect for the low limit tables on Party Poker in particular.

[Robert HM]

Thanks for that Div, I thought it was just me being thick!

[jbsc7769]

I have probably read about a dozen books and by far the best (for me) was Dan Harringtons "Harrington On Hold'em - Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments".

There are many other excellent books on the market that have lots of poker wisdom within them.

Not mentioned so far:

For Holdem and advanced Hold'em play, the following are excellent sources:

  "Winning Low Limit Holdem" by Lee Jones
  "Hold'em for Advanced Players" by Mason Malmuth and David Sklansky
  "Championship No Limit and Pot Limit Holdem" by Tom McEvoy

For Stud games, none are better than:

  "Championship Stud" by Max Stern and Linda Johnson
  "Seven Card Stud for Advanced Players" by Sklansky, Malmuth & Zee

There are also excellent Omaha books and split pot game books available, such as:

  "High Low Split for Advanced Players" by Ray Zee

The "bible" of tournament play is widely considered to be:

  "Super/System" by Doyle Brunson

Hope there is enough options for you!

[Div]

Thanks for the feedback.

Looks like Harrington is the man for tournament Hold Em, and Ray Zee is the man for split pots.

There's not such a clear consensus on cash No Limit Hold Em, and cash Omaha (probably pot limit). Does anyone have strong thoughts on a really good book in this area? Is Bob Ciaffone the man for this, or are there other recommendations too?

[Teacake]

Great minds think alike I was going to post the same thread.

I was going to get Harringtons book the other night for my hollies but plumped for one of Mike Caros instead.

We'll swap when finished, you better not take yours into the labour ward, Kelly will go nuts 

[snoopy1239]

Never count out Doyle's 'Super System' as a source of poker knowledge.

[Bongo]

I was thinking of something like this the other day (ie opinions on books), but as i'm prone to doing i had a bigger idea.

I was thinking it would be quite useful to have a webpage with reviews/infomation on books would be a useful resource.                                                   Pretty standard so far and things like this exist already and people still ask on forums because they want more than one opinion and to know the views of people they "know" not some unknown reviewer.

So I thought it would be good to have a site where anyone can submit a review of a poker book, with comments and discussion or whatever else people want to do. (Similar to the reviews Amazon but with a focus on poker so hopefully more use to poker players).

Would anyone else be interested in such a thing? If so i'll see if i can find some software that would run it (or write it myself if none exists).

That's just an outline of the basic idea, i had a few more ideas that might make it more interesting aswell. Hopefully it makes sense - i'm feeling a bit under the weather today so I might be typing gibberish 

[AdamM]

Although I've heard it slated elsewhere, I liked Psychology of poker by Schoomaker (spelling). for a novice / intermediate player it helps you start to learn to read opponents. I found after reading the book I got a lot out of sitting in the bar for half an hour before a tourney or being 1st to sit down at my table so I could watch others draw their seats and settle into their chairs. I also found it invaluable in cracking my home game.

[Scottish Dave]

you better not take yours into the labour ward, Kelly will go nuts

yes but it might help him get the 'Nuts'

Wohooo I stake my claim for the 'one liner' of the week title!!!!

[Div]

Bongo the easiest way to do it would be to set up a blog.

All the hosting and software is done for you, and you can allow comments.

Try www.blogger.com