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    Have any of you read any online poker books and if you have which were helpful?
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    "Insider Secrets to Playing Hold Em Poker Online" by Theodore Cage is pretty good. I have it on pdf if you want it.

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    I've read the Killer Poker - Crushing the Online game by John Vorhanus (or something like that....lol). It's a fairly good read and he makes your reading experience interactive by asking you to do some written exercises as you move along in the book.

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    I'd recomend "Search Enginges for Dummies." Haha, Just playing PFO has a book review page.
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    Also this topic has been discussed many times. We need stickies for this one maybe?
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    Harrington on Hold'em Vol I
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    Vorhaus is soont o be coming out with KPO 2, He says he had to revamp things in it due to the changing online environment. I think the biggest thing he noted was the use of PT/PO and the lack of a need to keep book by hand since you rarely see 85% of the players again.
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    Thank you for the suggestions... after reading other threads and hearing what other people had to say about what books to read i have decided not the read books that are specific towards online play... Instead i am going to read these books to improve my overall game and tighten up while playing online

    1. The Theory of Poker
    2. Harrington on Hold Em' Vol. 1
    3. Harrington on Hold Em' Vol. 2
    4. Caro's Book of Tell's

    Is this a good selection or are there other books that i should read as well. I have already read Hold Em' Excellence and More Hold Em' Excellence by Lou Krieger and those books helped my game a lot.
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    errr ummm... thats an odd selection for learning to play... Especially since you asked about online specific books... but now have changed your mind.

    Unless you are playing regularly in a live game, Caro's book is pretty much useless. It offers no strategy, in fact I think most of the examples are mainly stud and some draw.

    ToP is good, but DRY, learn the game first. I think the best book (and I have not read it yet, but comes highly recommended) is "Getting Started in Hold'em" and "small Stakes Hold'em" by ed miller. HPFAP is also a good read along with ToP.

    Harrington's books are best 'appreciated' with some experience under your belt. Some of the moves and theories he describes are intuitive to most expereinced players, but to the beginner, they may be mis-interpreted. Try TPFAP first, then once you have read and comprehended it, move onto HoH. Harrington does refer to TPFAP frequently.

    Personally, I have never liked much that Krieger wrote, but I have not read those two books, so I can't comment.

    Start with GSH and go from there. A couple good coverall books (with some different styles) is SS, SSII, and PPLP. Those are not considered definitive works, but do have a alot of good ideas in them,
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    Skip Caro's book and get SSH.
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    just bout SSH today and love it thanks
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    Good to hear. It's a always good to refer back to books every month to review/check up.
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