Which book should I get from the FT Store with my points?

[d0zer]

...keeping in mind that I'm mostly a cash, not tourney player.

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/store.php -> Books

The only ones I've read out of that list are the sklansky books and phil gordon's green book.

[GatorJH]

This one looks good to me just because I am not great at the math aspect of Hold-em - "Texas Hold'em Odds and Probabilities"

I am almost through with Harrington on Cash Vol's I and II but suspect that you wouldn't get that much out of them.

Too bad you don't play tourney's as I am also about 1/3 of the way through - Every Hand Revealed and it is pretty good so far.

[drmcboy]

yeah, past the sklansky's I can't really recommend any, Phil G's books are as dumb as he is and I haven't read most of the rest. If you are interested in the HORSE games the FT tourney book is about 1/2 NLHE and the rest is mixed and was a nice intro into those games for me. Small Stakes Hold em and HPFAP are also great but limit focused and you'd probably be better off just re reading ToP and T&P.

The Poker Mindset is good if you tend to tilt or even just be overly
depressed by a bad beat/session.

Positively Fifth street is interesting in stretches but is too slow imo and obv is not meant to improve your game.

[d0zer]

I think I might just get HoH since I haven't read it yet & I do play the occasional donkament. It is one of those 'omg you haven't read that yet' kinda books mmmMM?

[drmcboy]

yes, although unless you're buying two I would get vol 2, vol 1 mostly just covers stuff like pot odds and pre flop hands, you probably already know most of it and it's much more fully treated in ToP anyway. Vol 2 goes into late shovament situations and at least at the time was sort of a revolution

[d0zer]

Good to know -- I was gunna get 1, but yeah...it's probably not my early game of tournies that needs the most work.

[daven]

why not get an i-pod, sell it, and use the cash to buy lots of poker books?
Also, recommend leaving it until end-July - otherwise it will affect your july FT bonus and, as you will be playing to clear this bonus, rakeback
I've got around 70k points i need to do something with...

[drmcboy]

As a b0nus, vol 2 has the end of vol 1, 'making moves' which they put in vol 2 because I guess vol 1 ended up being much longer when they got done and they wanted the two to be similar in length

[GatorJH]

Agree with Drmc on HOH Vol II. The main thing you would get out of Vol I is "M" and I am sure you know what that is.

[drmcboy]

M is vol 2

[d0zer]

Phil G's books are as dumb as he is

I think the green book would make a great first poker book read by fishy mc fish fish with a short attention span & somewhat of a tolerance for numbers.

...but that could probably be said of a few books...

[djbruxism]

i liked the style in which both phil g's books were written. It's one of the only poker books that haven't sent me into a deep sleep.

[d0zer]

i liked the style in which both phil g's books were written. It's one of the only poker books that haven't sent me into a deep sleep.

Yeah I found it to be one of the most readable poker books I've read. Not the deepest in terms of information, & anyone with a clue would have little use for it, but for a first book as a n00b: not bad at all.

[GatorJH]

M is vol 2

I knew that.

[zook]

Buy an extra copy of Sklanky's NLHE Theory & Practice b/c eventually you should wear out your first one.

[d0zer]

I'm just gunna get a CR membership I think. Prolly do me more good than HOH...