Description: For today’s poker players, Texas hold ’em is the game. Every day, tens of thousands of small stakes hold ’em games are played all over the world in homes, card rooms, and on the Internet. These games can be very profitable — if you play well. But most people don’t play well and end up leaving their money on the table.

Small Stakes Hold ’em: Winning Big with Expert Play explains everything you need to be a big winner. 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.

Small Stakes Hold ’em teaches you to think 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. In addition, after you learn the winning concepts, test your skills with over fifty hand quizzes that present you with common and critical hold ’em decisions. Choose your action, then compare it to the authors’ play and reasoning.

This text presents cutting-edge ideas in straightforward language. It is the most thorough and accurate discussion of small stakes hold ’em available. Your opponents will read this book; make sure you do, too!

Kill Everyone: Advanced Strategies
for No Limit Hold'em Poker
Tournaments & Sit-n-Go's 
by Lee Nelson, Tysen Streib, Kim Lee, and Joe Hachem

The title says it all! 

Description: When I heard that Lee Nelson had teamed up with Kim Lee and Tysen Streib, I had high expectations that the resulting book would be something special, and I wasn't disappointed. While the subject of no-limit hold 'em has been examined extensively in an avalanche of poker books and articles since the poker book of 2003, Kill Everyone covers a lot of ground-breaking material of great importance to no-limit multi-table tournaments, Sit-n-Go's, and cash play. --Blair Rodman, 2007 WSOP bracelet winner, Kill Phil author 

Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players 
by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth


Every serious poker girl loves this book!

Description: Texas Hold ’em is not an easy game to play well. To become an expert you must balance many concepts, some of which occasionally contradict each other. In 1988, the first edition appeared. Many ideas, which were only known to a small, select group of players, were made available to anyone who was striving to become an expert, and the hold ’em explosion had begun. It is now a new century, and the authors have again moved the state of the art forward by adding over 100 pages of new material, including extensive sections on "loose games," and "short-handed games." Anyone who studies this text, is well disciplined, and gets the proper experience should become a significant winner. Some of the other 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.

Getting Started in Hold'em 
by Ed Miller

Another Ed Miller must-read! 

Description: Recently, countless people have started playing poker, hoping to quit their jobs and strike it rich. Sadly, most of these "professional" players will wind up broke. While many people play, few win consistently.

In Getting Started in Hold 'em, noted poker authority Ed Miller guides you onto the winning path. As someone who made the leap from beginner to professional in less than a year and a half, Ed is uniquely qualified to show new players the quickest route to hold 'em success.

This book presents the critical principles that expert players use: preflop hand valuation, domination, betting for value, protecting your hand, semi-bluffing, pot equity, pot odds, implied odds, free card plays, the importance of stack size, why chips change value in tournaments, and much more.

Whether you want to play limit, no limit, or tournament hold 'em, this book provides you a solid foundation. It's perfect, not just for the would-be pro, but for anyone who wants a serious edge on the competition. Getting Started in Hold 'em teaches you more than just how to play; it teaches you to win.

Phil Gordon's Poker Box Set: Phil Gordon's Little Black Book, Phil Gordon's Little Green Book, Phil Gordon's Little Blue Book  
by Phil Gordon


If you're looking for the best bang for your
buck, this is a hard deal to beat!

Winning Low-Limit Hold'em 
by Lee Jones

Chris Ferguson highly recommends this book!  

Description: Since its first publication in 1994, Winning Low-Limit Hold'em, by Lee Jones, has become the major reference on playing Texas Hold'em at the lower limits. However, poker has changed over the several years and Lee has continued to study the game. The result is this revised and expanded second edition.

If you play low-limit Hold’em, or would like to learn to play Hold’em, this book is for you. It won’t teach you a lot of advanced poker theory, but it will give you a solid foundation with which you can be a winner at low-limit Hold’em.

Read this book, study it carefully, and be disciplined: you’ll be able to beat any 1-4, 3-6, or 1-4-8-8 Hold’em game you join.

Professional No Limit
Hold'em: Vol. I 
by Matt Flynn, Sunny Mehta, and Ed Miller

Trying to go pro? This is your answer!  

Description: No-limit hold em was once only a tournament game. Cash games were rarely spread in conventional poker rooms, let alone the Internet. All of that changed when the game exploded on television. No-limit cash games started sprouting up at casinos of all types. No-limit hold em is now the most popular form of poker. Tournaments pushed it to the forefront, and a great deal of money can also be won here despite that fact, many players feel frustrated with their results. They win some money, only to lose it all on one botched hand. This book teaches you how to play and think like a professional. It shows how to size your bets, manage the pot, manipulate your opponents, know when to go all-in, and avoid the big mistake. Do you understand critical no-limit concepts like the REM Process, the Commitment Threshold, and Stack-To-Pot Ratios? If not, this is the book for you. 
 

Professional Poker: The Essential
Guide to Playing for a Living 
by Mark Blade

Go pro with this mega-resource!  

Description: Have you ever fantasized about playing poker for a living? If so, Professional Poker is your indispensable guide. You will learn poker odds and expert-level playing skills that form the foundation of a pro's playing abilities, along with career issues such as managing bankrolls, work hours, tournaments vs. cash games, travel, emotional control, paying taxes, getting staked, and online play.

It also addresses in detail many important questions that very few other poker books ever answer, such as:

* Do You Have What It Takes To Play For A Living?

* Should You Quit Your Day Job?


* Should You Just Play Part Time Instead?

* How Much Money Can You Really Make?

* How Much Do You Need To Get Started?


* What Do The Pros On TV Know That You Don't?

Professional Poker outlines each step you will take in your transition to the professional level, and, if you're already there, introduces skills and valuable advice that will empower you to always play your 'A" game.

No Limit Hold'em: Theory & Practice 
by David Sklansky and Ed Miller


Another blockbuster from Sklansky & Miller!  

Description: No limit hold em is exploding in popularity. Before 2000, it could be difficult to find a game. In 2006, it is played everywhere in casino cardrooms, in bar backrooms and homes, and on the Internet.

Now anyone can find a game, but few know how to play well. Most players learn by watching television or by listening to dubious advice from their friends. While they may have picked up a valuable tidbit here or there, most players come to the table without a winning plan. These players have two options: wise up or go broke.

The world's foremost poker theorist, David Sklansky, and noted poker authority, Ed Miller, will wise you up quickly. No Limit Hold em: Theory and Practice is the definitive work on this complex game. It provides you a window into the heads of experts, teaching you in straightforward and enjoyable terms the how s and why s of winning play.

It covers critical concepts like manipulating the pot size, adjusting correctly to stack sizes, winning the battle of mistakes, reading hands, and manipulating opponents into playing badly. It teaches you about implied odds and how to size your bets and raises effectively. It even covers many principles of short stacked play that will give you a big edge in no limit hold em tournaments.

Never before have so many people played no limit hold em, and never before has there been so much opportunity to win big. If you want your share of the spoils, read this book!

Sit 'n Go Strategy 
by Collin Moshman

An indispensible guide to sit 'n go play!  

Description: Sit n go poker tournaments are one table events starting with nine or ten players that usually pay the top three places. They have become very popular on the Internet and are now being spread in brick and mortar cardrooms as well. But they are not standard no-limit poker tournaments since the required strategy to be successful is different, and those who understand the proper approach have found these events to be highly profitable.


This text, written by sit n go expert Collin Moshman, is the first poker strategy book devoted exclusively to these tournaments. Through extensive hand examples and accompanying theory you will learn to: 1. Master expected value, tournament equity, and fundamental poker concepts, 2. Distinguish between earning chips and earning money, 3. Develop an ultra-aggressive late game strategy to steal all the chips when the blinds are high and your opponents are tightening their play, 4. Play multiple tables, incorporate tracking software, and seize online-only edges, 5. Exploit recreational players in your table selection and game-play strategy, and 6. Maximize your sit n go profits by treating each game as a business investment.


Whether you want extra income or a full-time sit n go career, Sit N Go Strategy provides you with all the tools you need for ultimate success at the tables. 

Advanced Limit Hold'em Strategy 
by Barry Tanenbaum

Highly recommended! Lives up to its name!  

Description: About the first third of the book contains necessary material outlining Tanenbaum's approach to the game, setting the stage for the subsequent discussion of strategic details. At times, this part feels a little dry, but this foundation is necessary for the specific advice that follows. These fundamentals are referred to constantly in later parts of the text, so the reader should not merely skim through them on their way to the meat of the book. Part 2, the balance of the book, covers poker situations that a player commonly faces in mid limit to upper limit games, where the stakes are high and the opposition is tough and aggressive.

Those who haven't played in these games will almost certainly be surprised at the sorts of situations that are described, as well as the way the author recommends playing them. However, this is the way that bigger limit hold'em games are played, and Tanenbaum knows well what it takes to show a long-term profit in them.

Tanenbaum's advice is clearly communicated, carefully thought out, and incisive. I believe his analyses of these poker situations are very strong, and he often discusses aspects to hands that did not immediately occur to me. His strategic advice is liberally sprinkled with examples that are perfectly constructed to elaborate on the points he makes. In so many places he provides so much good advice, that I expect that multiple readings will prove necessary for most poker players to extract everything that Tanenbaum has to teach.

As a whole, Advanced Limit Hold'em Strategy more than lives up to its title. (Review from PokerPlayerNewspaper.Com) 

The Wacky Side of Poker:
Cardtoons & Quotes
by Ralph Wheeler

Description: Take a walk on the wacky side with 88 humorous poker cartoons and 220 wise and witty poker quotes. Take a break from all the heavy reading, the heartbreaking flops, and the dastardly river cards with a lighthearted walk through this fun book. Filled with wit and wisdom, this book will bring a smile to your face. For just more than a ten-spot, you can’t go wrong. Perfect gift for a poker-playing buddy or relative. 176 pages.