poker books about playing online

i want to read a book about playing poker online and was wondering if any members of the cardschat community who have read a few of these could recommend one that covers alot of aspects?i dont generally read books and as i only intend to read one,i want to get as much information about which one is the best before i make my choice.i know that people will give different opinions and i welcome this,please dont be afraid to throw another title in the mix even if a few people all seem to agree on one. thanking you in advance for your responses

This kind of confuses me. No problem if you really don't like to read, then don't read. Play a lot and learn the best you can. But to already commit yourself to only reading one book...that seems to be odd and short sighted, but whatever.

Matthew Hilger wrote a book about online poker (older book, but a good basic info start).
Ed Miller wrote Small Stakes Hold'Em, but then that's limit poker.
Dan Harrington has a great series out on NL hold'em and tournament play, but that's over 5 books...

Naming 1 book is going to be very hard because: A) There is no 1 answer to the game. B) What kind of play do you enjoy, and most of all C) Getting information from a bunch of sources can shape your style of play and make you a better all round player. I can say this: If you read one book and try and emulate that player, most likely you will screw up the nuances of the style and not be as successful as you think you should because the author obviously is fairly good at his style.

Good luck

Don't read books. Search for articles in the Internet. You won't have the patience to read an entire book anyway since you're not that much of a reader.

I have 3 suggestions for you:

1) Dusty Schmidt's "Treat your poker like a business": Focuses on internet poker and BRM.

2)Phil Gordon's "Little Green Book": Best All-around poker book I've read, plus it's easy to understand and not very long.

3)Colin Moshman's "Sit'n Go Strategy" : Ok, this one focuses on SNGs only but it's the top notch book on that matter! You'll hugely improve in SNG after reading this!

Ideally I'd push you towards reading all 3 of these books or at least getting all of them now then seeing which one you like the most (to ultimately read the others). But trust me, I tried to read other poker books, and every time I stopped them because I switched to one of these since they instantly helped my play...Have a nice read

Have a look here:

Poker Books You Must Own

You haven't specified what game you play, what stakes, cash or tourneys...there's a little bit for everyone in that thread, specifically the link to Aliengenuis' thread.

i would like to thank everyone who replied especially elie and pokerman whos information was very helpful

you can look at the internet as one vast, gigantic poker book.
all the information you will ever need is out there.
just study the bits you want to learn
and you don't even have to turn the pages.
good luck

Gr8, YW!
Just out of curiosity, which one are you going to get?

I suggest searching poker articles in the internet and learning from them instead. You could also go by way of experience but you'd have to prepare to lose some money if you dive in without proper knowledge. You could also maybe ask a friend to help you out if you have any friends that know anything about poker.

I would really disagree with playing before you have any knowledge whatsoever. Experience is indeed the best teacher but man do the lessons hurt.