Your worst poker enemy and Your best poker friend both by Alan N. Schoonmaker
Let there be Range by Tri Nguyen and Cole South
There is also a link in the poker forum to a free NL book that although ive not found the time to read it all it looks pretty good.
Let there be Range by Tri Nguyen and Cole South
There is also a link in the poker forum to a free NL book that although ive not found the time to read it all it looks pretty good.
I have yet to find a truly great book. For any of you guys that are wanting to learn to beat the game at a professional level I urge you to become a active member at 2+2 and start posting scenarios and hand histories and take the advice of some of the more respected forum members. I also urge you to become a member of one of the training video sites. I was a recreational player for 3-4 years before I decided to take poker seriously. I became a member of one of the better recognized training video sites and started posting hand situations that troubled me. In about 4-5 months of being active at the sites I became a much better player. 10+ years later I am still learning and fixing holes and implementing new strategy. If you don't evolve with the game, you will fall far behind. You can either stay on the cutting edge or the game will move past you, your winning game will quickly become less profitable, break even, or fall onto the negative ev side of the game.
As a pro over thousands of hands? Less than 5%... A amateur over thousands of hands and not actively implementing strategy to become better... Luck could potentially be as high as fifty plus percent. See this is a tough question to answer. You give a pro luck and a weekend warrior the same luck a pro will optimally play that lucky hand the correct way and optimize the winnings. Luck has very little to do with the game at a high level. It's the know how to optimally play your positions, scenarios etc... That puts the pro's on a whole other level than a lucky fish.
I wish I could find the online poker skills test that used to float around the forums. It put you in 100 different scenarios to see how well you optimally played certain hands in certain scenarios. It then graded you based on your play. It was 100 different scenarios and was actually very good and accurate. Id love to see how everyone would score here. Me and some other circuit regulars used to battle heads up on this simulator for some high stakes to see who could beat the others score. I loved seeing if my perception of a player was correct using this simulator. I got a 93% one time as my highest score. Some of the big name pros took the rest and some failed horribly. If I remember correctly guck seed scored the highest of any test takers at 98% and Annie duke scored 72%... If you happened to read any of my wsop trip reports I told you about my two roommates during the series and how I respect their game more than any of the "big pros" they both hold rings and bracelets. They both scored a 96 which is amazing. I had a couple warrior type players that play in my home home score as low as 22%.. I will look for this simulator and post it, it could be interesting.
