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Old 04-19-2005, 06:53 PM
bholdr bholdr is offline
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Default poker book libraries

just out of curiousity, how many books do you all own?

so far I have:

TOP
WLLHE
SSHE
SS
HEPFAP
7CSFAP
HLSPFAP
Hold 'em Poker (carson)

what am i missing? SS/2? others? I have found HEPFAP to be the most useful of these, followed closely by TOP...
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Old 04-19-2005, 06:56 PM
Derek in NYC Derek in NYC is offline
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Default Re: poker book libraries

I own everything.
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Old 04-19-2005, 07:15 PM
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Default Re: poker book libraries

add another 25
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Old 04-19-2005, 07:18 PM
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"add another 25"

this isn't helpful;
which 25?
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Old 04-19-2005, 07:44 PM
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I have bought and read a lot of books lately. Here is my poker library:

Theory of Poker (Sklansky)
Hold'em 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)

Middle Limit Hold'em Poker (Ciaffone/Brier)
Pot-Limit and No-Limit Poker (Ciaffone/Reuben)
Super System I (Brunson)
Super System II (Brunson)
Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Hold'em (Cloutier/McEvoy)
Winning Low Limit Hold'em (Jones)
Hold'em Excellense (Krieger)
More Hold'em Excellense (Krieger)
Winners Guide to Texas Hold'em (Warren) <--- Haven't read it and never will [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Caro's Book of Poker Tells (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)
Improve your Poker (Ciaffone)
Texas Hold'em Odds (Barboianu)

and then some fiction/other gambling literature:

The Biggest Game in Town (Alwarez)
Big Deal (Holden)
Positively Fifth Street (McManus)
Fast Company (Bradshaw)
Bringing Down the House (Mezrich)
The Man With the $100,000 Breasts (Konik)

31 books in all. Didn't realize I had that many until I actually counted them. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

olavfo
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Old 04-19-2005, 09:09 PM
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Stosh's little library, currently reading Real Poker II by Cooke and Pot/No Limit by Ciaffone...

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)
Pot-Limit and No-Limit Poker (Ciaffone/Reuben)
Super System I (Brunson)
Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Hold'em (Cloutier/McEvoy)
Ken Warren Teaches Texas Hold'em (Warren)
Inside the Poker Mind (Feeney)
Real Poker II (Cooke)
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Old 04-19-2005, 09:27 PM
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Theory of Poker
Hold Em Poker for AP
High Low Split for AP
Tournament Poker for AP
Harrington on Hold'Em
Small Stakes Hold'Em
Inside the Poker Mind
Sklansky on Poker
PL/NL Poker
SuperSystem2
Winning Low Limit Hold'Em
Ken Warren's Winning Hold' Em (eek)
Improve your Poker
Real Poker 2
Bad Beats and Lucky Draws
Improve your Pot Limit Hold'Em
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Old 04-19-2005, 10:14 PM
MarkL444 MarkL444 is offline
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big "poker libraries" or whatever have no affiliation at all to good poker players.
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Old 04-19-2005, 10:19 PM
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big "poker libraries" or whatever have no affiliation at all to good poker players.

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yes. the correlation is very low.
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Old 04-19-2005, 10:45 PM
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just out of curiousity, how many books do you all own?

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Looks like about 140 devoted exclusively to poker. Forgive me if I don't take the time to list them here.
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