Now after little break, im playing at Nl5.

And i need book that covers basics and help me to be a better player.

And im thinking about Professional No-Limit Hold 'em, Volume I by Matt Flynn, Sunny Mehta, and Ed Miller

I hear that this book is great and very good for beginners. but on the other hand, I hear that this book focuses mainly on SPR and a lot advice from this book is not good for online cash games?

Any idea?

I play some 5NL and 10NL, and the books that is most helpful for me are "Building a bankroll", "Dynamic Full Ring Poker" (also very good for 6max and HU) and "Small stakes no limit hold em" (SSNLHE). I use all of the three books at the same time. Professional (...) is a book helps you learn some useful tools as SPR, REM (range, equity, maximize) and covers odds etc. It's a good book but you should learn basic preflop play and CBetting etc before your start at those concepts IMO.

"Building a bankroll" is the most complete book of the three because it covers bankroll mangement, variance and examples of preflop ranges +++, and has a lot good hand examples so you can see how the concepts should be implemented.

what about "harrington on 6max" ???

I just bought "Building a Bankroll" and Verneer recommends opening from EP with 55+,ATs+,KJs+,JTs+AQo+,KQo, and he considers this to be a tight range in a full ring game. Did he make a mistake and meant for this range to be for a 6-max game? Why would he recommend this as a standard range and consider it to be tight?

Hi xxl_w1:

I had forgotten I had written that, and just by chance decided to reread this book starting today. Part of the reason for my rereading is that I'm always a little reluctant to say a book is poor when many others say it's good.

But just to give an example, from Chapter One the author states:

My comment on this is:

But if you bet enough don't you want him to call.

Best wishes,
Mason

I am currently reading Poker Blueprint for the 2dtime in a row (I believe it's good to read a book several times as you're only ready to incorporate the concepts into your game after a 2d or 3d reading).

My thoughts on the book :
+ Very easy to read, nice layout.
+ Perfect if you want to implement a more aggro-exploitative approach to your play.
+ Practical straight-forward approach through concrete examples. No BS or vague concepts.

- Clearly NOT suited for microstakes. This book is intended for people who play against thinking players (I would say from 100NL or 50NL at least). Even though it's always good to have a deeper thinking about the game. I seriously do not advocate you put into practice most of the plays from the book if you're playing at 10NL (Blackrain's "Crushing the Microstakes" would benefit you more).

All in all a clever and useful book and in no way outdated. Recommended.

lol, thought I recognised you from uNL. You're wrong, and I don't think you know how microstakes play any more; certainly I'd be surprised if you beat 5NL based on the advice you've been giving. Crushing the Microstakes is okay but it's not going to help someone who's already beating 10NL (though it can help people get to that level). I'd say 50NL is roughly where stuff like The Poker Blueprint becomes obsolete.

After looking through some posts about Easy Game, I've been a bit curious about it.. considering purchasing it. One question though.. I've been reading people talking about volume 1 and 2. But when I search, I only see one version (Easy Game: Making Sense of No Limit Hold'em 3rd Edition: Adaptations). Is this just volume 1? Is there a volume 2? Were these 2 volumes combined into one book?

EDIT: Guess I asked too soon. Just found another thread that said 3rd edition contains all volumes.