Book Recommendations- NL HE trny player.

[eaglezoners]

What books would you recommend to a beginner to read, who wants to play No Limit Hold'em tournaments, and eventually progress to the mid-level tournament stage?

[Fonzi]

Originally Posted by eaglezoners

What books would you recommend to a beginner to read, who wants to play No Limit Hold'em tournaments, and eventually progress to the mid-level tournament stage?

Read the Dan Harrington books, then Super System 2, then the theory poker by Slansky

Those books cover just about everyhing you need to know about NL Holdem. If you like complex math read Killer Poker by Numbers, but it's like a college level course.

[targetguy1]

i got a texas holdem for dummies book and chipset if yuo want it

[KeepBlinkin]

lol me too, i have poker for dummies

[Fonzi]

Poker for dummies is great for a new player, but once you're beyond the basics, it's not very useful.

Funny story happened to me today. I went over to the Bellagio to pick something up and as I was paying a guy came in asking if they sell basic strategy cards for Blackjack. The attendant pointed him in the right direction and when he walked away I said "It's a bit late for that now, he needs to know the games before coming to Vegas". Her response (With an oriental accent and flair about it) was "they don't know what they're doing, they just mess up everyone else's game, go play slots, anyone can push a button". And she was absolutely correct.

So learn the basics before you go play for big money.

[Mist]

There aren't many books for beginners that are specifically written on NLHE tournament play.

Dan Harringtons tournament books are great, but are quite difficult to understand if you don't have much knowledge of poker from earlier on.

The same goes for David Sklanskys "Theory of Poker". It is a great book, probably the best pokerbook I've ever read, but you won't understand it unless you already have a good knowledge of poker.

I would recommend you first read some basic, ABC books, that are meant for beginners. These books will teach you the basics of poker and some basic strategy like handselection, the importance of position etc...

Once you've read these books you take the theory into practice, and only when you've mastered it all you move up to the more advanced books.

Remember that it's better to start of with the easier books and slowly try to adopt the more advanced strategy into your play.