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[Aequitas58]

I guess people don't read books here?

We need more members.

[2Tone]

of any book specifically geared towards Internet play. It seems to me that SSHE should cover the Party games just as much as it does the ones at my local card room.

I've posted this before, but the poker books I really enjoy are novels that aren't instructional in one sense of the word, but very much are so in a broader sense.

Shut Up and Deal

Worth the price just the narrator's description of the differences between 10/20 and 100/200.

King of a Small World

A vivid reminder that the game has a cost, even for those who win.

[Aequitas58]

I haven't gotten into the poker "story" books. Even Positively Fifth Street... I hear that was good though. Nevertheless, if you tend to stick w/ just this side of poker literature, where do you look to plug leaks?

Experience is HUGE when it comes to knowledge, but if someone already figured out a good pre-flop strategy for loose-aggressive tables, why not take advantage of it?

I guess my Q is: Where do you turn to learn more about the game, or, ultimately, how do you get your game to reach the next level?

[drewjax]

I actually think its good to switch it up. Read an instructional book, then read a novel. Shut up and deal was real good, abit out there at times, but definately a must read. 5th street is good. Stu Ungar book is supposed to be excellent. And people keep saying to read LLHE, play some, read SSHE, play some, reread, again and again. I just finished LLHE, and am about to start SSHE. I will eventually mix both Harrington books in as well. That my plan.

I thought killer online poker sucked. Hilgers book is much better. I have actually started an excel spreadsheet, listing preflop play for Hilger, Jones(LLHE), and I will add Miller (SSHE), and possibly a list of my own, taking from all three. Just using the two lists has already improved my limit play, although I havent played that much in the past few weeks (playing and doing much better in tourneys at the moment). YA, and warming up for the HE tourney.

[Talking Poker]

You should post a screen cap of that spreadsheet sometime. I'd be interested to see what it looks like.

[JDMcNugent7]

I forget the full name of Harrinton's Volume 1 book, but read it and thought it's pretty good. I was somewhat of a begginner and still some of the stuff was very obvious. The examples of different hands after every chapter can be pretty helpful at seeing different ways to bet in hands.
The thing that helped me most from this book was just how much thinking he puts into every hand. The book definetely helped me but i was a begginner when i read it and it was the first book i got, so it might be pretty simple for all of you pros out there.

[lightfungus]

I don't know of it is a bad move or what not, but I have yet to read a poker book. I thought maybe I would get my own take on the game and then once I found flaws, maybe I would read a book geared towards that. Then again, maybe I should just try to absorb knowledge.

I don't play the numbers game yet really either, except I really took to TP's continuation bet numbers. I think it wouldnt hurt at all to know these.

Is there anyone who found a book messed them up at all? Is there anyone who held out for a while before reading and wished they hadn't?

Is there anyone who thinks I should drop the learning by experience and pack someone elses experience in to save time?

[Aequitas58]

Are you nuts!?

Harrington on Hold'Em Vol. 1 is a goldmine for newbs and more seasoned players alike. You (and anyone else who owns this book) should read it again.

And again. And again.

Play a tournament...

And then read it again.

Once it's burned into the recesses of your cerebellum, you can begin AT THAT POINT to use his information to become a very strong NL tournament player.

I have 6 things lined up to read, after all of this BAR bullshit. HoH Vol. 1 is the first I'm starting with. And the last I'm ending with.