BEST POKER BOOKS.??

richard.

Thinking of buying a poker book.
Which one is the best.?

Daithio9

richard. wrote: »

Thinking of buying a poker book.
Which one is the best.?

It depends, what game are you interested in?.

richard.

Sorry ya forgot to mention that!
I play Texas Hold 'Em No Limit, mostly online but play in the casino quite a bit too

Hulk Hands

Harrington on Hold'em is generally regarded as the best around. There are 3 volumes, with 1 and 2 on general play and the 3rd showing examples of actuals hands and how to play them. Very useful the 3rd one is. You might be able to download a PDF online. Otherwise order from the net as I cant see you finding a copy in Ireland. I thought Phil Gordons blue and green books were good reads too.

RoadSweeper

Do you play Sit & Gos, MTT's or Cash games?

shanefitz360

Defo get harringtons, id recommend them. You can order them from easons. . . . but they are available online pretty easily. Torrent downloads and all.

ValueSeeker

Doyle Brunson - Super System

Buy that and you'll never have to buy another 1.

PokerManAA

Best Poker Book?I´ve heard of Doyle Brunson's Super System check it out........:cool:

Sktchr

Phil Gordon's Little Green Book = Amazing...nuff said :P

carfax

If you're a tournament player, I always thought David Sklansky's "Tournament Poker for Advanced Players" (pretty sure that's the right name) is the best poker book I've ever read.

Jam-Fly

Play poker like the pros by Hellmuth
- good book starting out. explains the rules for games like Omaha8 very well and gives good solid foundation for most games


Little Green and Little Blue book by Gordon
-Great books to bring you from decent hold em player to good hold em player. The first book lays out general strategy and the second book goes thru sampe hands with good analysis

Theory of Poker by Sklansky
- Some great and essential concepts in there. Tough enough read if ur not familiar with games like Ace-Five lowball, Stuf hi-lo etc.

Harrington on Hold em 1,2,3
-Pretty much an absolute most read for any hold em player. It has become the standard for poker play and the reference point for nearly all tournament poker strategy

Harrington on Cash games
-From what I've read of them, seems like more good books from a great author

Every hand revealed by Hansen
-Really under rated book. Would be more advanced but an excellent. Only buy it if you're already familiar the concepts like M, blind stealing, re-stealing, delayed continuation bets etc.

Caro's book of tells
-Decent fun book to read

Read 'em or reap by (former FBI interrogator) Navarro
- Makes Caro's book look like a 2 year old wrote it. This book is the best of it's kind ever written

How to make the final table by Lindgren
- Another lesser known and lesser talked about book. Lindgren advocates the super aggressive, take any edge you can get approach in tournaments. If even if you don't favour that strategy, it can give you an insight to how many, many players who do use this strategy think


If your interested in non-strategic books, Ace on the River [bout 25% of book is strategy, the rest is 'poker-life strategy] (Greenstein), Brunson's 50 best hands (Brunson), Poker Wisdom of a Champion (Brunson), and The Biggest Game in Town (Alvarez) are all great reads.


Generally stay away from Cloutier/McEvoy books imo, most of them are rubbish

Lurker1977

Redjoker, who posts here, or at least used to, has written a pretty good summary of the majority of poker books here.