Good First Book??

[Biowza]

Hey I have decided to start reading some poker books (I only play No limit Hold'em) so i was wondering what is a good first book for an aspiring youngster like myself.

Would like something that goes through odds calculation along with some hand analysis.

Thanks for any suggestions

[Biowza]

nothing?

[Eusebio]

Hi!

I am currently reading the new book of Sklansky and Miller "No Limit Holdem Theory and Practice".

The book is great!

It is not the usual "Raise with AKs preflop in MP, but fold if raised twice"-stuff. It makes you think very much and the mix of equations and examples is very good. All they write is more an overview and they honestly say, that most of the chapters would fill a whole book if explained detailed. But the given information is excellent!

You should know about the pokerbasics, like potodds, implied odds etc. and you will be happy with this book.

The only thing that i dont like is, that they are sometimes making examples which are, lets say, rare in reallife. How often do you flop the nuts? how often do you have an open straight/flush draw?

They always asume that you hit the flop, but do not state what to do e.g. if you dont hit it (but you have built a pretty big pot with their advices preflop). Should I just fold? I do not hit the flop very often, so what then?
I am not through yet, but I hope I will have some answers to those questions

[xDiamond_CutteRx]

I second the Sklansky/Miller suggestion, and Harrington on Hold'em if tournaments are your preferred game.

But if I may make a recommendation: learn Limit Hold'em. It's a much better game for learning a lot of technicalities of the game before moving to No Limit.

[Eusebio]

@Diamond
For me (noob) playing limit succesful seems much more difficult, than NoLimit. From reading the other Sklansky-Books I know that the theory of limit is/seems much easier, but i dont know... i have my problems with it. And was glad when I heard about the Non-Tournament NoLimit-Book...

[Sid Lambert]

I second harrington on holdem, volumes 1 and 2 for tournament NLH.

[Flesh2Flesh]

I don't know any NL beginner books, but Theory of Poker by Sklansky is a great book for any poker games, to learn different poker concepts is important. So I would say read an easy NL-book and Theory of Poker

[davepoker]

i would reccomend small stakes holdem by sklansky and malmuth. It covers preflop hand analysis, pot, odds, and alot of postflop analysis as well. Its not a very difficult read either.

[crack]

I started out at NL and actually found it easier to learn the mechanics of the game than Limit hold'em.

I play a lot of different games now, but I found limit the hardest to get on top of actually.

For nl, a must for cash games is NL and PL poker by Bob Ciaffone and Stewert Reuben.

It covers different games as well as holdem, but a lot of the strategies can be applied to holdem.

HOH for tournaments.