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Hey guys. Can you help me out? What is the absolute must have book for learning NL holdem tournament play/strategy? Thanks guys.
 
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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.
 
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ive read super system and Daniel negreanu small ball poker....they helped me alot
 
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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.
 
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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 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.
 
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You'd be better off to just do a search for a thread re: nlhe tournament books.
 
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You'd be better off to just do a search for a thread re: nlhe tournament books.
Thanks. I never stopped to think about a search option on this forum, cool. I found 85 threads. Thanks again.
 
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Highly recommended along with the next 2 volumes to complete the set. I'm a big fan of Jon Turner.
 
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Harrington on Hold 'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. 1: Strategic Play by Dan Harrington;
Harrington on Hold 'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. 2: Endgame by Bill Robertie;
Small Stakes Hold 'em: Winning Big With Expert Play by David Sklansky
 
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I liked Jonathan Little's book.
 
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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.
+1 Harrington is a must for building foundations , Snider is a sico use this one with caution both a great read .
 
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Hey guys. Can you help me out? What is the absolute must have book for learning NL holdem tournament play/strategy? Thanks guys.

I've read the Dan Harrington books. They are cool, because there are examples from real tournaments in these books.
Those strategies good for low buy-in tours, but I think on higher levels poker changed a lot especially in preflop play.
 
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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.
 
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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.

Yeah Jon does a good job, I've followed him in the poker world when he first came on the scene and try to keep up with how he is doing. Good point and I probably should have noted it's definitely not a set of books for someone first starting out. Need a little general knowledge so you can understand and comprehend the vocabulary they are using. Very informative books though and was a big fan of the style they used in writing them.

If a beginner wants an easy read to pass the time and read about a little poker while maybe picking up a new things, this was the first book I read. Yep I was a Lindgren fan but man did that guy prove to be one big douchebag. Still a decent read for the beginner's and if I remember correctly there are some interesting tourney ideas/strategies in there from Erick that aren't exactly accepted on a wider scale in the poker world as optimal plays.

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