Thanks for your help here. I will go with your advice , and study all these. You made me realize it takes more then one book. I really appreciate you taking the time here to explain this to me. Thank you so much.Here we go -
Super System is not a tournament book.
Small ball is for big stack, slow tournaments and can just get you frustrated in turbos and such.
Again, if you are just starting out, Phil Gordon. If you have a handle on the game and need some structure, Dan Harrington.
After that probably the Eric Lynch books.
Thanks. I never stopped to think about a search option on this forum, cool. I found 85 threads. Thanks again.You'd be better off to just do a search for a thread re: nlhe tournament books.
+1 Harrington is a must for building foundations , Snider is a sico use this one with caution both a great read .It really just depends on where you are at, but really no single book is going provide you enough for mastery over your opponents at the tables.
One of the real values of learning from several different sources is recognizing those different "styles" when you are playing which allows you great insight into what your opponent is doing, wants to do and is apt to do.
You can memorize all 3 volumes of Harrington on HoldEm but what are you going to do against the guy who memorized Arnold Snyder?
Do you have a foundation for your play? If not I recommend Harrington.
Just starting out? Phil Gordon.
But poker is constantly evolving and it has become impossible and unwise to narrow your study of the game to a single book or author.
Hey guys. Can you help me out? What is the absolute must have book for learning NL holdem tournament play/strategy? Thanks guys.
Highly recommended along with the next 2 volumes to complete the set. I'm a big fan of Jon Turner.
I am also a PearlJammer fan. His stuff is the best of the lot - IMHO
Have you seen/used the iPad app of this book? Really cool
But I would not necessarily recommend it for someone starting out.
I also have Little's stuff - I like it but his writing "style" is pretty bad - not grammatically, but he just pours stuff out via his own stream of consciousness (and he is aware of that). It is not very well organized so the reader has to work that much harder. Volume 2 actually goes backwards and has very remedial stuff instead of building upon Vol 1. But i would recommend Vol 1.