Beginner Books

[lunchmeat]

My first book was Sklansky and Malmuth's Hold 'Em Poker For Advanced Players. While most of the stuff was over my head when I first read it (most of it is probably still over my head for that matter), studying the hand rankings and memorizing which hands to play in which situations pre-flop allowed me to beat the .50/$1 tables from day one.

I've since read T.O.P. and just started WLLH, but I doubt I would have been an immediate winning low limit hold 'em player if I had read those books first.