Pokerforum Library

Redington

Im sure alot of you are like me and have a great library of poker books.

perhaps we could get some trading going on, so we can expand the books we are reading, without the costs of buying every book. (for example I could have saved myself $50 on Supersystem 2 if I had the chance to read someone elses copy first)

So here's what I have and would be willing to 'trade' with the expectations I get the books back later;

Killer Poker a work book for winners - Vorhaus
Killer Poker Online - Vorhaus
The Art of War - Sun Tzu (one of the best poker books ever)
Super System I - Doyle
Play Like the Pros - Helmuth
Book of Tells - Caro
Tournament Strategy for Advanced Players - Sklansky
Tao of Poker - Whithouse
Zen and the Art of Poker - Williams
Poker Wisdom of a Champion - Doyle

I'm very interested in Moneymaker and Helmuths book's let me know if we can trade.

Tyson

WaterLooser

I have actually paged through a bunch of these books at Chapters, but found it hard on deciding which ones to purchase. The only one from your list that I have read was "Poker Wisdom of a Champion", actually found it very useful and an easy read. I would definately recomend it for beginners.

Are there other books your list that you would suggest starting with?

Iron

If anyone has any doubles they want to trade permanently, I've got an extra copy of "Zen and the Art of Poker", as well as Ray Zee's 2+2 book "High Low Split Poker for Advanced Players" (Stud and Omaha 8). Just pm me if interested, although I get the feeling that everyone has the first book listed and that there isn't a lot of interest in the other even though it's a great book.

Redington

WaterLooser wrote:

I have actually paged through a bunch of these books at Chapters, but found it hard on deciding which ones to purchase. The only one from your list that I have read was "Poker Wisdom of a Champion", actually found it very useful and an easy read. I would definately recomend it for beginners.

Are there other books your list that you would suggest starting with?

Get Supersystem or play poker like the pros, good for beginner strategy.

Ddi you wanna borrow one?

ScottyZ

Are there other books your list that you would suggest starting with?

I'd recommend for beginners:


Limit Holdem:

Winning Low Limit Holdem, Lee Jones
Winning at Poker, Dave Scharf
Hold'em Poker, David Sklansky


No-Limit Holdem:

No-Limit Texas Holdem (New Players Series), Brad Daugherty & Tom McEvoy


All games:

Theory of Poker, David Sklansky


If you're still fairly new to poker, I'd actually recommend avoiding Super System (too advanced), Winning Small Stakes Holdem by MS&M (too advanced), and Play Poker like the Pros (too crappy). I'd certainly recommend the first two (SS2, not SS1) if you feel like you're at the intermediate skill level or higher.

ScottyZ

Redington

ScottyZ wrote:

I'd recommend for beginners:


Limit Holdem:

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ScottyZ

Scotty's reccomodations are bang on,

But out of my library for TRADING I would reccomend those two.

you hijacker scotty !!!

ScottyZ

Okay, okay. From the list. :cool:

Not too much for beginners there. I'd say most of the strategy books are intermediate or advanced. A beginner would also probably have some difficulty seeing the relevance of The Art of War to poker, although I'd recommend tackling this one as an advanced player.

Zen and the Art of Poker and Tao of Poker (both by Larry Phillips IIRC) could be useful for a beginner. And I really liked "Poker Wisdom of a Champion" by Doyle, which could be read by just about anyone since it's not really focussed directly on strategy.

ScottyZ

Redington

ScottyZ wrote:

Okay, okay. From the list. :cool:

Not too much for beginners there. I'd say most of the strategy books are intermediate or advanced. A beginner would also probably have some difficulty seeing the relevance of The Art of War to poker, although I'd recommend tackling this one as an advanced player.


ScottyZ

Im just doing the Art of War now (well again, but the first time applying it to poker) and I have to say this is helping my game the most compared to anything else.

I go through a translation (5 minutes reading), then apply all the principles to the hands I have played (last night had it was about 5 hours of thought - set vs str which I took a BIG hit on)

The principles are not style specific and apply to anyones game.

Maybe we should start a forum for theory discussion based on it...ok now Im officially a web poker geek!!!!!

WaterLooser

Redington wrote:

Did you wanna borrow one?

Sure! I am planning on attending the BSC XIV (hopefully not as an alternate). At the very least I will get to meet some of the colourful people from the forum and get a chance to introduce myself.

See you there.