HPFAP or Weighing the Odds - which one first?

[Peter666]

Everything is relative. I have been playing in some 1/2 limit games online with people who treated it like 15/30 and vice versa. You'll have to read both those books eventually, so just read the one you feel like reading first, then the other, or bits and pieces of both to let concepts sink in. The Yao book really emphasizes the math after dealing with psychology. HEPFAP talks about specific tactics that are mathematically and psychologically based.

[bygmesterf]

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I have read SSH and I am rereading it now. I have read TOP and need to reread it, but I will wait a couple of months for that. I have HPFAP and Weighing the Odds on their way right now. Which of these two should I read first, given that I am currently playing 3/6 online?

Thanks.

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I would skip HPFAP, it's really not very well written or all that useful except for the section on shorthanded play. Ciaffone's Middle Limit Hold'em is much more useful.

[tonypaladino]

For the limits you are playing, read Weighing the Odds. I was a little disapointed by it, but I found a lot of the concepts in HPFAP don't apply to the low limit online games