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Some of my favorite sites

  • RecPoker.com -- a web access to the rec.gambling.poker newsgroup
  • Lou Kreiger's website Lou is the author of a bunch of poker books
  • Cardplayer.com -- The website for Cardplayer magazine. Nice place to read the current issue, but I find the site hard to navigate.
  • twoplustwo.com -- Site, with discussion forum, of 2+2 publishing -- Sometimes has interesting discussion threads. The main problem is the heavy handed censoring by Malmuth. He's a little prickly about perceived personal insults.
  • Danny Negreanu's site I really get a kick out of Danny's adventures.
  • Poker Magazine.com I write for them, and they pay on time. They have some good stuff from other writers also, a connection to rec.gambling.poker, and other stuff.
  • Andrew Prock's website. He's the author of pokerstove, a freeware poker hand analyzer. If you're a student of poker you should have a copy of pokerstove.
  • KillTheRake.com, a site I've been making contributions to
  • Barry Greenstein has some stuff about his book, about some of the players he plays with, about neptotism in celebrity poker, and other stuff.
  • World series of poker website Keep up to date on the circuit events plans.

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The Complete Book of Hold'Em Poker

Clicking on the above image takes you to the Barnes and Noble website. They are slightly higher than Amazon unless you have a Barnes and Noble membership card.

If you prefer to purchase from Amazon you can click here for The Complete Book of Hold 'Em Poker

I wrote this book a few years ago. At the time there were very few no limit hold'em games to be found in cardrooms, and the book reflects that. It's covers limit hold'em. Covers it very well, I think, but it's not complete on its coverage of no limit hold'em or on tournaments.

This is another pre poker boom book, but Ciaffone's work is always solid. He's basically a tight-assed PLO player so he tends to have a different perspective on poker than I do. Looking at the world through different perspectives is a good thing to do now and then. I recommend the book.
Hold 'em Poker
Hold 'em Poker

Don't let the publishers claimed publication date fool you. This book was published 30 years ago, not 10 years ago.
Small Stakes Hold 'EM: Winning Big with Expert Play
Small Stakes Hold 'EM: Winning Big with Expert Play

A popular book, but without much to offer in my opinion. It's poorly written, and very poorly edited. It's publisher, twoplustwo, seems to do a good job of promoting books but a very poor job of editing and they generally have low production values. The book does do a better job of other books on covering play on the turn in limit hold'em games.
Internet Texas Hold'em: Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro
Internet Texas Hold'em: Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro