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Harrington on Hold 'em:
Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments
Volume 1, Strategic Play

Focusing on strategic play in no limit hold'em tournaments this book will help you develop a winning no limit tournament style. Offers a wealth of knowledge for players that have been playing for a while but haven't made any real money and want to get serious about winning no limit tournaments.

Presents such information as styles of play, playing against different styles of opponents, poker concepts, and helps the reader determine what is best for the way they want to play. Information can be used equally well online or at offline tournaments.

Harrington on Hold 'em:
Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments
Volume 2, Endgame

Describes on finishing the game in no limit hold'em tournaments.

Harrington on Hold 'em:
Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments
Volume 3, The Workbook

Workbook for practicing what volumes 1 and 2 in the series talked about.

Internet Poker:
How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games

A good book for novice poker players who have little or on experience playing poker online. It provides an overview of internet poker and shows how to play online poker games.

The book includes a CD with free poker software and 125 interactive hands to help you prepare to play online games for fun or real money.

Internet Texas Hold'em:
Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro

An overview of texas hold'em is presented including general poker online concepts such as probability and odds, bluffing, raising and check-raising, etc. Various deceptive tactics are also discussed such as free cards, slowplaying, and inducing bluffs and calls.

Shows strategies for starting hand play as well as playing on the flop, turn, and river, the intricacies of playing on the internet and the differences in strategies between internet and live play. You'll also be able to practice all of these strategies on over 200 actual internet hands.

This is a book for beginner to intermediate players who want to improve their game to win money playing online poker. It is not for the absolute beginner but if you play a few hours a week or strive to take your game to an advanced level, this book could serve as a solid reference. Players that only play no limit games might want to look for another book, this one uses limit texas hold'em in its examples.

Killer Poker Online:
Crushing the Internet Game

This book is primarily about online poker psychology and the things you can do to take advantage of the fact you are at home on the internet rather than at a casino or some other gambling venue in person.

It covers such things as picking the right online poker site, choosing a table name, managing your money, online tells, how to use chat messages to get your opponents emotions involved and more.

If you are a good poker player that likes to play online poker this book can really help you out. Professional online poker players would probably already know most of the info in this book and novice poker players will not be able to understand some of the concepts.

Online No-Limit Texas Hold'em Poker for Beginners (pdf download)

For the beginner who doesn't want to wait to get a book about no-limit texas hold'em, you can buy this and download it to your computer for immediate use.

Covers such basics as where to play online, how to get started, which starting hands to play, how to play correctly, and more. It also includes how to close out your opponents when you get to the end game of a tournament.

This is the pdf download version. It requires a computer with adobe acrobat reader which is available free on the order page.

Poker On The Internet

Recommended for beginners that have no experience to intermediate poker players who have been playing low stakes games online for a year or less.

It covers things like choosing the right online poker site, poker resources, poker strategies, taking notes, chatting, playing more than one table at a time, cheating, tournaments, and more.

TechTV's Guide To Online Poker

A book for internet poker beginners that explains poker basics and online techniques. Learn card, suit, hand ranks, betting strategy, poker odds, finding an online poker site, opening play money and real money accounts, and more.

Includes step by step illustrated instructions on how to play texas hold 'em, seven card stud, omaha, 5-card draw, and 5-card stud forms of poker.

Texas Hold'em Odds

This will show you all the math involved in figuring out how poker odds work. This is not a strategy book or list of what the odds are a certain two card starting hand will win. It gives the math behind figuring out your hand odds at almost anytime during a card game. You can use this online, at a casino, or anytime you play cards.

For the advanced player that is very good at calculus and wants to know the exact probabilities in a given situation, all the formulas are included. Intermediate players can skip the formulas and memorize the results. I doubt that anyone will be able to remember all the math and be able to apply it, but if you can grasp and apply some of the information presented you will be able to make a better choice as to staying in a hand or folding.

The Theory of Poker

Not specifically an online poker book, this book introduces you to the theory of poker, its implications, and how it affects your play. It discusses the value of deception, bluffing, raising, the slow-play, the value of position, psychology, heads-up play, game theory, implied odds, the free card, and semi-bluffing, and more.

Written with the understanding that you already have a good knowledge of the game, this is not an introductory how to play book. It covers theories and concepts applicable to nearly every variation of the game, including hold'em, five-card draw, seven card stud, lowball draw, and razz.

Winning Secrets of Online Poker

For people with no prior knowledge of poker or online poker. Covers the rules of poker, basics of online poker, analyzing your playing style, adapting your technique, and more.

Win Your Way Into Big Money Hold'em Tournaments
How to Beat Casino and Online Satellite Poker Tournaments

This book shows how you can win entry to big tournaments through satellites online or in casinos. Includes tips on betting strategies, pressuring opponents, discovering bluffs, playing deceptively, chip leverage, limit games, no limit games, one table games, and more. Not for beginners, this books assumes the reader knows how to play poker and wants to earn real money in big tournaments.

General Poker Books

Caro's Book of Poker Tells

The original book on poker tells, it lets you know what to watch for in your opponents. It is challenging and at times overwhelming to sit at a full table looking for body language but this book will help you determine if other players are bluffing or have real cards.

Championship No Limit & Pot Limit Hold 'Em

Novice to intermediate players will get a lot from this book. Well put together, the book covers all aspects of playing no limit and pot limit holdem, with two chapters dedicated to tournament games.

Covers things like how to read your opponents, how to play your 2 starting cards, and more. Giving important information that will help you point out and improve weak points of the way you play.

Doyle Brunson's Super System II

A book for everyone from the beginner to the expert, it's for anyone who is willing to spend the time to increase their skill level to a professional level.

A beginner can follow along without trouble and master this book. But if you've played for long, this can help you master the art of poker and play a lot better.

Hold 'Em Poker

The text is designed for someone relatively new to the game who is interested in improving their game and making poker decisions based on skill rather than luck.

It teaches you how to limit your risk and play the best hands time and time again. Anybody can sit down and play a few hours and get lucky but it takes a disciplined skill set and a solid knowledge of probabilities to win consistently.

Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players

This is a book for intermediate to advanced players who know what they are doing at hold'em poker tables. Poker is not just a game of luck, this book will help take advantage of numerically based, money making advice as well as intricate plays designed to extract the most value from a hand.

Anyone who studies this text, is well disciplined, and gets the proper experience will have a good chance of becoming a consistent poker winner. Some of the ideas discussed include play on the first two cards, semi-bluffing, the free card, inducing bluffs, staying with a draw, playing when a pair flops, playing trash hands, desperation bets, playing in wild games, reading hands, and psychology.

No-Limit Texas Hold'em:
The New Player's Guide to Winning Poker's Biggest Game

A crash course in how to play no limit texas holdem. This book is aimed at experienced limit players who want to play no limit poker or rookies who have never played no limit before.

Readers will learn the winning principles and four major skills: how to evaluate the strength of a hand, determine how much to bet, how to understand how opponents play, and how to bluff and when to do it.

The authors, who have won millions of dollars, provide tons of practical examples, a betting chart for tournament play and the key strategies to beat online no-limit hold'em cash games.

Poker for Dummies

Poker For Dummies covers the basics of poker. Maybe you've never played poker before and you don't know what a full house is. Or perhaps you've played for years, but you just don't know how to win. This handy guide will help you understand all the basics of playing poker.

Small Stakes Hold 'em:
Winning Big With Expert Play

Will help teach you to think and play small stakes poker like a professional player. Topics include implied odds, pot equity, speculative hands, position, the importance of being suited, hand categories, counting outs, evaluating the flop, large pots versus small pots, protecting your hand, betting for value on the river, and playing overcards.

Unlike many other books about small stakes games, it teaches the aggressive and attacking style used by all professional players. However, it does not simply tell you to play aggressively; it shows you exactly how to make expert decisions through numerous clear and detailed examples.

The Complete Book of Hold 'Em Poker:
A Comprehensive Guide to Playing and Winning

A very good book for beginning and intermediate hold'em poker players. Not a book about how to play hold'em but a book to help clarify your thinking about hold'em and allow you to make better playing and betting decisions.

Among other things it provides a chart of suggested starting hands, as well as info about poker hands from their poker ranking to their money winning potentially and betting theory.

Thursday Night Poker:
How to Understand, Enjoy and Win

This book is written for the casual poker player that might play once in a while with friends and wants to win. It tells you how to do the quick, simple math to take your game to the next level. It also gives you tips to read your opponents. Since players at your weekly poker game are not professionals, they tend to exhibit certain habits which can expose their hand.

This book is a great way to play winning poker while still enjoying yourself and getting involved in several hands. It is over 400 pages and introduces basically everything you need to know about the game in general, and specific variants.

Better than most other introductory poker books, it has plenty of advice for the new player. Each topic is covered in depth. Others players may enjoy reading it, but the looser style of play is definitely best suited to the casual game.

Tournament Poker for Advanced Players

The target audience of this book is advanced poker players who have not played in many tournaments. Experienced tournament players might get something out of it too, or use it as reference, but they are not who the author had in mind. If you are looking for advanced tournament tips get another book.

This book is for solid poker players who almost never play in tournaments simply because the price of learning tournament basics through first-hand experience is rather high. If you are a good player thinking of playing tournaments, read this book it has answers to most of your questions.

Winning Low-Limit Hold'em

The book is somewhat basic, but good for people who play low limit $2/$4, $3/$6 games and want to practice strategy before they jump to the $20/$40 tables or higher.

If you like playing low limit texas hold'em, this book explains important concepts like pre-flop and post-flop play, bankroll management and patience, that are necessary to survive in the sometimes insane low limit hold-em games.

Traditional play and tournament play require completely different skill sets that are beyond the scope of this book.