| Do poker books, dvds and programs actually help players? |
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Riddim
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Joined: 04 Dec 2005
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Location: Sweden
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| orracle922 wrote: |
| ive read sklasky's thoery of poker and it was great but his examples are heavily based on limit games where bet sizes, pot sizes, and odds are easily predicted. i was wondering if his 'No limit Holdem Theory and Practice' was a good extension of these concepts specifically into NLHE? |
That book is one of the best I've read, and I would definitely recommend it. It's not really a no-limit version of ToP though, but rather a bunch of fundamental NL concepts and ideas. Pretty much everything in ToP still applies in NL games, and NLHE: TaP goes a long way towards showing how to do it. |
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orracle922
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Joined: 11 Jun 2007
Posts: 17
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thanks for the input, thats what i wanted to hear.
recently since i've started playing for real money online, i've taken a huge liking to tournaments over cash games (both stt and mtt, but mostly the stt sng's). so now i play tourneys exclusively. would it be a better idea to pick up the HoH books, or still go for sklasky's nlhe:tap? |
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renegades8
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Joined: 26 Nov 2006
Posts: 3683
Location: griiiiinding
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| orracle922 wrote: |
thanks for the input, thats what i wanted to hear.
recently since i've started playing for real money online, i've taken a huge liking to tournaments over cash games (both stt and mtt, but mostly the stt sng's). so now i play tourneys exclusively. would it be a better idea to pick up the HoH books, or still go for sklasky's nlhe:tap? |
I'd say pick up all of them. It might be expensive at the time, but it will quickly pay off for itself and you'll end up making enough money to hopefully buy more books.  |
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orracle922
High Card
Joined: 11 Jun 2007
Posts: 17
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| haha yeah im eventually going to get them but it sounds like HoH is more geared towards tourneys which is what im palying now. or does TAP have some useful tourney info as well? |
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Riddim
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Posts: 8151
Location: Sweden
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| If you're playing STTs you're probably better off reading the 2+2 forums instead of their books. HoH is good for MTTs though. |
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FAST EDDIE 88
Full House
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
Posts: 159
Location: Chicago area
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| i thought killer online poker was so bad I threw it away. What a waste of money. Brunsons book about online poker sucked too, but all his other books are good. It seems like the books out there about online poker lack real substance. I dont need another lecture about how you should avoid distractions and not play when you're tired. Give me something I can sink my teeth into. |
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spike420211
Message Board Junkie
Joined: 25 Apr 2007
Posts: 1424
Location: on your La-Z-Boy, raiding your fridge, playing with your remote
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Riddim wrote: |
| HoH is good for MTTs though. |
I also like HoH for cash games, due to the well thought out "small-ball"
philosophy. The heads-up section in vol. II is a great foundation for heads-up
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ciccups
High Card
Joined: 22 Sep 2007
Posts: 2
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:59 pm Post subject: I can hear my game but cannot open window to play. How do I open window? |
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I can hear my game but cannot open window to play. How do I open window?  |
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ciccups
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Joined: 22 Sep 2007
Posts: 2
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject: I can hear my game but cannot open window to play. How do I open window? |
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| I can hear my game but cannot open window to play. How do I open window? |
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StitchNV
High Card
Joined: 25 Sep 2007
Posts: 9
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| FAST EDDIE 88 wrote: |
| Brunsons book about online poker sucked too, but all his other books are good. |
I'm not picking a fight here, I'm just say'n.. Poor Brunson's 73 years old. The man's been making his living at poker before some of us where born... And if you told him when he first started play'n for cash that one day he'd be able to sit infront of a box, hit a few keys, and be play'n poker with somebody from china... he'd tell the bartender to cut you off.
I'm still kinda new, only been play'n for real cash for a few months now, but I've sat in a few games over the years... but in my eyes Doyle's still god of the felt. |
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StitchNV
High Card
Joined: 25 Sep 2007
Posts: 9
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:16 am Post subject: Oh crap, i had a real question |
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Before I stood up to defend my idol, i really had another question.
Dose anybody know where you can get software to reply hand historys?
I'm not looking for player tracking software, or anything like that. Its just when I read the forms it's easier for me to copy past a hand history and see what their talking about then it is for me to try and follow along with the hand history outputs...
Thanks in advance. |
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renegades8
Forum Fish
Joined: 26 Nov 2006
Posts: 3683
Location: griiiiinding
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject: Re: Oh crap, i had a real question |
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| StitchNV wrote: |
Before I stood up to defend my idol, i really had another question.
Dose anybody know where you can get software to reply hand historys?
I'm not looking for player tracking software, or anything like that. Its just when I read the forms it's easier for me to copy past a hand history and see what their talking about then it is for me to try and follow along with the hand history outputs...
Thanks in advance. |
Do you mean to convert the hands so it's easier to read? Try this site:
http://poker-tools.flopturnriver.com/Hand-Converter.php |
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Gino Ianucci
Straight
Joined: 15 Jan 2006
Posts: 125
Location: The Largest Island on Earth
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Does anyone know if "The Cardoza Big Book of Poker" by Ken Warren is any good? Particularly for an intermediate player? |
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the illness
High Card
Joined: 06 Oct 2007
Posts: 9
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:59 am Post subject: |
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Hello all,
I made a post about this earlier but someone told me it would be best to post it here.
www.thepokerking.org <---This site offers a product called the "Hold em Huster Super Survival"
For about $19 it gives you a variety of ebooks that offer a lot of information about the game. It even has a guarantee success money back guarantee. I have used this information for about a month now, and it has improved my game SIGNIFICANTY, particulary in Sit and Go tournaments.
Best of luck to anyone who purchases this--it was defintely worth my investment |
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BigDBoreen
Message Board Junkie
Joined: 29 Jun 2007
Posts: 1679
Location: Vernon, BC
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| There you go this is the right place. Man im like a mod tonight helping people out. |
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