Re: What THREE books would you recommend to a brand new player....
Memorizing any chart is pretty much a waste of time, unless you are good at rote memorization.
For most of us it is easier to understand why each hand should be played, once you do that you can always figure out if your hand is playable in the current situation or not.
A good example hand is what to do with T9s UTG. It's pretty trivial to realize that no chart is going to be right all the time for this hand. And once you understand what makes this hand playable you can figure out if you can play it in this position or not depending on the table.
At a very loose and passive table it is right to play 33 UTG, but it is also right to fold it in late MP if it's folded to you. Hard to capture in a chart without overwhelming the reader with info, but easy to understand why it's playable in the first case but not the second.
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