 | The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One by David Sklansky
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $10.50 To get it started with an early understanding of the fact that odds and stats is important in poker.
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 | Phil Gordon's Little Green Book: Lessons and Teachings in No Limit Texas Hold'em by Phil Gordon
Buy new: $15.64 / Used from: $7.07 To get some basic idea on how to play common hands.
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 | Mastering No-Limit Hold'em by Russell Fox
Buy new: $21.33 / Used from: $3.29 Simple and basic cash game play to get you started. Nothing fancy, just straight forward play. The value lies in the fact that you do not need to be too conused when starting up with cash games. Will teach you to be patient.
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 | Harrington on Hold 'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. 1: Strategic Play by Dan Harrington
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $16.94 To improve enormously in tournament play in a short amount of time. The three Harrington books are the best books on Hold'em tournaments. The competition is not even close.
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 | Harrington on Hold 'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. 2: Endgame by Dan Harrington
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $15.00 To improve enormously in tournament play in a short amount of time. Many will claim that you should play looser than Dan Harrington. If you're one of those you should still read this book to see what you're up against. These books should be really well studied.
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 | Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategies for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. III--The Workbook (Harrington on Hold'em) by Dan Harrington
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $13.00 To get an idea on your own level so far. Basically a work book and a test of your skill level. Entertaining like all tests :)
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 | Sit 'n Go Strategy by Collin Moshman
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $12.86 Perfect book on Sit & Goes. Easy to understand and it sounds simple, but if you read and learn you will improve very quickly by claiming more 1'st places. Read it and play lots of Sit & Goes and you will improve your game.
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 | Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time Volume I by Eric 'Rizen' Lynch
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $18.95 Nice book to study when you have read Harrington a couple of times. Lots of plays from skilled tournament players.
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 | The Book of Bluffs: How to Bluff and Win at Poker by Matt Lessinger
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $3.33 Gives you a good overview of types of bluffs to use and how. Poker is not all about bluffing, but it helps.
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 | Cash Games (How to Win at No-Limit Hold'em Money Games) Vol. 1 by Dan Harrington
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $18.00 After playing lot's of Sit & Goes and tournaments you might want to improve your cash game skills. Then it's time to read Harrington again. These two books are not as good as the tournament books, but they are still plenty good enough to make you improve in cash games. Study these books and lear when to fold them as well.
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 | Harrington on Cash Games, Volume II: How to Play No-Limit Hold 'em Cash Games by Dan Harrington
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $18.41 After playing lot's of Sit & Goes and tournaments you might want to improve your cash game skills. Then it's time to read Harrington again. These two books are not as good as the tournament books, but they are still plenty good enough to make you improve in cash games. Study these books and lear when to fold them as well.
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 | No-Limit Texas Hold'em: A Complete Course by Angel Largay
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $13.91 To balance Harrington a bit and get more aggressive.
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 | Phil Hellmuth Presents Read 'Em and Reap: A Career FBI Agent's Guide to Decoding Poker Tells by Joe Navarro
Buy new: $13.64 / Used from: $7.81 Very entertaining on reads that I could read directly on top players on final tables on TV. Great fun and useful for live games :)
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 | Pot-Limit Omaha Poker by Jeff Hwang
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $9.11 I knew nothing about Omaha and could play ok in full ring games after reading this book.
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 | Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play by Jeff Hwang
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $19.98 Great book and one of the best written poker books I've read. Pays for itself very quickly. Takes the ideas from his first book further and teaches you how to win shorthanded. It felt great to "float" my first oponent and to bet out with nothing against a "two weak bets" oponent and make her fold :) Highly recommended.
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