Editor’s Picks for Best Poker Books

Though the majority of poker books hold a good amount of practical information, there are a couple that are head and shoulders above the competition. For beginners, the hardest part of learning poker strategy is deciding where to start. For this reason, I have decided to put together a list of what I feel are the best poker…

Weighing the Odds in Hold’em Poker

They say that those who can do…do, and those who can’t…teach. Long time options trader turned professional poker player, King Yao has written a book from the perspective of an engineer and has gone to great lengths to apply the science of quantitative analysis to a game of chance. As a poker player, information is…

The Theory of Poker

Some say “The Theory of Poker”, written by David Sklansky, is the best poker book ever written. Sklansky covers multiple varieties of poker with this title, including five-card draw, seven-card stud, hold’em, lowball draw and razz. Numerous pros have been recorded saying how much of an influence this book had on their poker game. Published…

The Professor, The Banker, and The Suicide King

Andy Beal is a wealthy Texas banker that started frequenting the Las Vegas card rooms in search of high-stakes poker games around the turn of the millennium. By 2001, Andy, who owns one of the most profitable banks in Texas, would go from a complete unknown to the man who initiated the richest game in…

The Book of Bluffs: How to Bluff and Win at Poker

Mat Lessinger’s The Book of Bluffs: How to Bluff and Win at Poker picks up where Mike Caro’s Book of Poker Tells leaves off, teaching players how to bluff, how to utilize a bluff to make their opponents fold, and how to prevent being bluffed. Lessinger’s opening chapters provide background material: one discusses when one…