Online Poker Forum - Poker Books, Dvds, Tools and Software Review and Discussion Thread

loosefer88 · Flush Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 141

Check out John Anhalt's (Nagarjuna) book http://pokerzion.com/pdshoppro/shop/

tjb111 · forum BAP bumper Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 3783

ok...with poker books (in particular the full tilt tourny book edited by micheal craig) the main stuff you will basically already know how to do (power people out in later stages) but they do teach things such as how to hide your great hands or how to bluff at the pot

playinmykids · Pair Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Posts: 23

If you play alot of tourneys then I highly recommend Harrington's books. Vol. 2 The Endgame has some great info, especially for short stack play in the later stages of the game. I've applied his theories about inflection points in tourneys and what a difference it made. It amazes me to see short stacks fold and fold and fold with antes and high blinds while waiting for aces or kings. If they are lucky enough to get them they double up, but still have a small stack cause all the chips they've lost to blinds and antes. But more timed than not they are forced to go all in with a 10 9 and always get called becuase they've lost their fold equity. Looking forward to Harrington on cash.

DOWL1NG · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:25 pm Post subject:

Ok so HoH I helped me a ton. and HoH II is on it's way to my house as we speak. (Definitely paid for itself because my bankroll went from $0 to $215)

I didn't enjoy Phil Gordon's Little Blue Book at all and consider it a waste of money (IMO)

I am looking to pick up the following books but am wanting to find them on eBay or someone selling them for really cheap somewhere.

1. Sit N Go Strategy
2. Full Tilt Strategy
3. Professional No Limit Hold'em

DOWL1NG · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject:

Ok, just ordered Full Tilt Poker book for $15.99 including shipping on Amazon and is supposed to arrive Tuesday and Professional No Limit Hold'em for $19 and is due to arrive Friday. My HoH II should be arriving Friday too hopefully so I will have plenty of good reading for the next week Laughing

Definitely going to pick up Sit N Go Strategy soon so I can get into SnG's more often because right now I am about 95% tournament player.

Mikah

I have a problem I have both the leggo poker converter and the universal replayer.When I goto convert the Hand history file,by either copy pasting in text window,or using the browse for importing HH file,when I goto convert the file,the converter gives me the error message:

No Hand history detected and No valid Hand history in this file.

Now this doesnt make sense,because the HH text is right there,I can see all the details of the hand.

The question I have and this is the only thing I can think of is that the Hand history files in fulltilt poker cake poker poker stars UBNET Absolute poker etc,that are saved in my C:/program files/name of poker client/hand history,are done in notepad txt format files.

So I was thinking that either maybe if the hand histories are from x poker client,they have to be converted into that x poker client.But that wasnt the case.And so the only thing I can think of is that maybe .TXT notepad files are unconvertible and are not recognized as valid Hand history files,and that as such maybe the converter doesnt see the actual hand history in the TXT notepad files.

So is this the case?And if it is.How do I convert the TXT notepad files into files that the converters will read recognize and convert.
And if this is not the problem or shouldnt be the problem.

what is the problem or reason why I cant seem to convert the HH files,and how do I fix it so that I can convert the HH files?

So can anybody please help me with this?

It would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Mike D H

Riddim · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:08 pm Post subject:

Mikah, I've never run into that problem. Try asking the people at leggo, they're very helpful in my experience. You should be able to find an e-mail address on their site if you don't want to register for their forums just to ask about the converter.

loosefer88 · Flush Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 141

Feel free to give our hand history converter a try- http://www.learnhowtoplaypokerfree.com/convert/convert.cgi

loosefer88 · Flush Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 141

I've used popopop universal replayer and never had any issues- http://www.universal-replayer.net/

intopot · Flush Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 140 Location: Florida

very good insight there Mike, thanks for sharing your synopsus and opinions one the books.
Certainly cant hurt to learn some knew stuff, and listen to others points of view. Besides haven t read a good book in five years

Juxtapoze · Two Pair Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Posts: 65 Location: Michigan

I think if any beginners are seriously considering playing cards professionally, or they simply just want to be good players, they should absorb as much knowledge as possible from videos, books, and other sources...eventually all that little stuff you hear about pot odds, implied odds, outs, reading players and everything necessary to be a winning player will fall into place at the tables...IT HELPS! I slowly but surely realized I was counting outs and calculating odds at the drop of a dime, as well as calling out opponents whole cards a few times just on feel....I recommend super system and mathematics of poker. Very Happy

timeobrien64 · Pair Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 23

also i watched 2 videos from beanmo,, they wer on sharkscope,, i found them very helpful

kwik · Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:30 am Post subject:

"theres an old saying in poker that at the table your worst enemy is yourself. i'll tell you one thing: in my case, truer words were never spoken." Stuey unger.

"for anyone interested in understanding and unraveling the legend of poker's most creative thinker and tortured soul, this book is the real deal." doyle brunsen

i just finished a great book,imo a must read for any gambler/poker player, check it out!

"one of a kind...the rise and fall of stuey "the kid" unger,the worlds greatest poker player.", by nolan dalla and peter alson... foreword by mike sexton

Hittman6 · High Card Joined: 21 Mar 2009 Posts: 2

GATORMAN08 · Full House Joined: 10 Mar 2009 Posts: 192

Books and TV help you play poker better? I will look into this.

I have always just listened to the invisible voice over my shoulder.

Why would any poker player (worth a damn) who is contending in the WSOP's actively want to tell anyone how to play them better?

Pretend it is the 19th century again, Tonic anyone?

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