poker book libraries

[olavfo]

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big "poker libraries" or whatever have no affiliation at all to good poker players.

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How do you define "good"? If you mean World Champ kind of good, you may be right, but for the rest of us, books greatly speed up the learning process.

Even if you're not a natural, you can still get pretty damn good by playing a lot and studying a lot.

olavfo

[TheShootah]

7CSFAP
HLSPFAP
HEPFAP
TOP
SOP
SSH
Super System
Super System 2
Winning Concepts in Draw and Lowball
Harrington on Hold Em

All the goodies....

[Skipbidder]

In semi-random order with cut-and-paste from other posters:

Theory of Poker (Sklansky)
Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players (Sklansky/Malmuth)
Small Stakes Hold'em (Miller/Sklansky/Malmuth)
Harrington on Hold'em (Harrington/Robertie)
Tournament Poker for Advanced Players (Sklansky)
Super System I (Brunson)
Super System II (Brunson)
Hold'em Excellence (Krieger)
More Hold'em Excellence (Krieger)
Winners Guide to Texas Hold'em (Warren)
Body Language of Poker (Caro)
The Psychology of Poker (Schoonmaker)
Inside the Poker Mind (Feeney)
Gambling Theory and Other Topics (Malmuth)
Poker Essays I-III (Malmuth)
Getting the Best of it (Sklansky)
Poker Gaming & Life (Sklansky)
Positively Fifth Street (McManus)
The Man With the $100,000 Breasts (Konik)
Gambling for a Living (S&M)
7CS for Advanced Players
High-Low-Split Poker For Advanced Players
Hold Em Poker (Carson)
Tournament Poker (McEvoy)
7 Card Stud 42 Lessons (Roy West)
How to Play Winning Poker (Avery Cardoza)
Winning Poker for the Serious Player (Edwin Silberstang)
The Archer Method: An Expert's Guide to Winning At Poker (John Archer)

I own some others that aren't currently on my bookshelf for some reason...
The Suzuki 2+2 tourney book, a book about using game theory in draw poker (Ankeny), John Fox's sleep til noon book, and WLLH.

Some of these books are very, very bad.

(Add over a hundred more books if you want chess, backgammon, bridge, and assorted other game books. I'm such a freaking geek.)

[helpmeout]

I'd bet people with over 20 books are on average much better than people who only have SSH and a few other 2+2 books.

I dont know what the point of your post was.

As for what books I have, pretty much just the standard reading material.

WLLHE,SSHE,HEPFAP,TOP,MLHE,ITH,SS1,SS2,IYP,POP,ITP M

Mike petrivs holdem odds book, poker essays 123, the 3 killer poker books, Real poker 2, zen and the art of poker, tao of poker.

7CSFAP, a few omaha books, and the biggest game in town

[newhizzle]

HPFAP
TOP
POP
TPFAP
SSH
SS1
SS2
caros book of tells
fundamentals of winning poker(caro)
12 days to holdem success(caro)

[forgetit]

Own the following:

Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players (Sklansky/Malmuth)
Small Stakes Hold'em (Miller/Sklansky/Malmuth)
Harrington on Hold'em (Harrington/Robertie)
Tournament Poker for Advanced Players (Sklansky)
Winning Low Limit Hold'em (Jones)
Super System I (Brunson)
Super System II (Brunson)
Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Hold'em (Cloutier/McEvoy)
Tournament Poker (McEvoy)
Winners Guide to Texas Hold'em (Warren)
Positively Fifth Street (McManus)
Poker Nation (Bellin)

[BarronVangorToth]

Not trying to read into why the original poster asked the question, but, whatever it is, this question seems to come up with people looking to do the following (if that's not the case with the original poster, my apologies, but it's what I've seen from enough others) --

I own the following set of books: XXXXXXXXX

Let's see the other books others own and see ones that come up very often that I don't own.

This is very noble and fine - unfortunately, as one of those people who would list their poker library, I'll provide FAR too many false positives that you don't need. I have something like almost 200 poker books. Let's assume you don't own most of them. The problem is - most are terrible.

I'm not a huge fan of online message board participation (and only really do so for my own WWE card game) but I enjoy participating on this particular board because I've seen sooooo much of what's out there and found it soooooo lacking that I'd like to talk to those that likewise "get" why 2+2 completely owns everything else being published.

In short: if I were to build the ideal poker library, it would invariably be just the 2+2 books (no question, some are absolutely better than others, but they still all are of higher quality than basically everything else out there) and, well, okay---- The 2+2 library plus Positively Fifth Street.

Barron Vangor Toth
www.BarronVangorToth.com

[Lost Wages]

Own, Alphabetical order:
Caro's Book of Poker Tells
Championship Satellite Strategy
Championship Tournament Practice Hands
Complete Book of Hold'em Poker
Gambling Theory and Other Topics
Getting the Best of It
Harrington on Hold'em Volume I
Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players
Hold'ems Odds Book
Improve Your Poker
Inside the Poker Mind
Internet Texas Hold'em
Middle Limit Holdem Poker
No-Limit Pot-Limit Poker
No-Limit Texas Hold'em (New Player)
Poker Essays
Poker Essays II
Psychology of Poker
Real Poker II
Serious Poker
Small Stakes Hold'em
Super System
Super System II
The Biggest Game in Town
Theory of Poker
Tournament Poker for Advanced Players
Winning Low Limit Hold'em

Wish List:
Education of a Poker Player
Play Poker, Quit Working, Sleep til Noon
Poker Essays III
The Mathematics of Games and Gambling
Winning Poker Systems

Read but don't own
Poker Nation
Positively Fifth Street

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[deacsoft]

My collection to date is as follows:

1.Inside the Poker Mind by Feeney
2.The Psychology of Poker by Schoonmaker
3.The Theory of Poker by Sklansky
4.Internet Texas Hold'em by Hilger
5.Championship No-Limit & Pot-Limit by Cloutier and McEvoy
6.No-Limit Texas Hold'em by Daugherty and McEvoy
7.Hold'em Poker by Sklansky
8.Zen and the Art of Poker by Phillips
9.The Tao of Poker by Phillips
10.Small Stakes Hold'em by Miller, Sklansky, and Malmuth
11.Caro's Book of Poker Tells by Caro
12.Positively Fifth Street by McManus
13.Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players by Sklansky and Malmuth
14.Tournament Poker for Advanced Players by Sklansky
15.Winning Low Limit Hold'em by Jones
16.Super System by Brunson
17.Play Poker Like the Pros by Hellmuth
18.Poker Wisdom of a Champion by Brunson
19.Bobby Baldwin's Winning Poker Secrets by Caro
20.Middle Limit Hold'em by Ciaffone & Brier
21.Real Poker II by Cooke
22.Harrington on Hold'em by Harrington
23.Poker, Gaming, and Life by Sklansky
24.Tournament Poker and the Art of War by Apostolico
+ 7 DVDs

Currently in queue include: : Poker Essays I, II, & III; Improve Your Poker; Getting Started in Hold'em; Championship Hold'em Tournament Hands; Championship Tournament Poker; Pot-Limit and No-Limit Poker; & Super System II

[Lost Wages]

23.Poker, Gaming, and Life by Sklansky

Did you find any value/interest in this book? I'm also considering "Sklansky on Poker".

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