ive been playing poker for about 2 years now. Mostly, i play low-stakes tournament style NL hold'em.

which text or dvd would benefit me the greatest?

thanks in advance

just wanted to add somehitng else

i think that i am and advanced player, but not advanced enough to be reading some of the tougher to understand books

Get "Winning Low Limit Hold Em" by Lee Jones. It is very good and is organized very well.

I agree... currently only have 3 poker books

Recommend:
Winning low limit hold'em - Lee Jones

Terrible: (in my opinion)
Winner's guide to texas hold'em- Ken Warren
Poker tournament strategies- Sylvester Suzuki

for no limit - get harrington on holdem. Quite simply, it kicks butt and covers ALOT of material.

Reminds me of a college text.

I've played poker for about a year, moving from 1/2 to 15/30, I nowadays play on Party and skins because of the large amount of bad players and LAGs. I'll name some books and my opinions on them.

These books I'm first talking about will be geared more towards limit hold'em, ring/cash games.

Winning Low Limit Hold'em by Lee Jones
As mentioned already, the Lee Jones book is reasonably solid. I do think it has you playing a bit weak-tight, though that's not a bad approach for a true beginner. You will learn a lot from if this is your first poker book. It actually was mine. You will beat low limit games with this book, just not as much as you could potentially be winning.

Small Stakes Hold 'em: Winning Big With Expert Play by Ed Miller/Sklansky/Malmuth
This is absolutely the best book for learning how to beat the low limit games out there. This is obviously only my opinion, but I believe the book speaks for itself. It is a bit difficult for an utter newbie to the game perhaps, but if you persevere it should be doable. This is the only LL book I've read that really does seem to advocate a truly tight-aggressive style. If you have to read one book before attacking lower limits games, this is the book for you.

The Complete Book of Hold'Em Poker by Gary Carson

This book is a bit of a mix in terms of being for beginners or intermediate/advanced. The beginning is utterly for beginners, which is what took me a while to get through it. I put it down at first when I had only read the start, but a friend of mine got me to read the whole thing. Once you get past the first 1/4th, this book has a hell of a lot to offer. I highly recommend it. It approaches the game by looking at it from a lot of different perspectives, or what it calls theories of poker, depending on the style/texture of the table you're playing at. It will help you a lot in learning how to play draws aggressively if the table is loose. Anyway, I believe it is a fine addition to any library now that I finally got around to reading it in its entirety.


I think that's enough for one post. I think I'll post on some other more general books or books that cover multiple types of poker.

The Theory of Poker--it's too good to pass up even if your looking for low limits

And as mentioned before--Small Stakes Hold'em

These two are the best books on poker I have ever read. Lee jones' book was OK. But it doesn't compare to these two.

I havn't read harrington's book...I guess I'm going to have to get it, getting a good wrap.