Hey,
a friend of mine has seen that I have made decent profit with MTTs recently.
He wants to start and try to learn, but he has no clue about poker.

What are the best books that create fundamentals and basics at first and which you can then use to go deeper into the game?

Best regards,
AA

Math, Theory and Psychology are useful in online and live as well as tourney and cash games. I think they make up the foundation of the NLH world.

Id tell your friend:
memorize what wins and in what order

read the beginning [the first 4 chapters] of The Mental Game of Poker (part 1)

read this post: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/32...-book-1399203/

Get a good math book. I'd recommend Poker Math That Matter by Gaines or The Math of Hold'em by Moshman and Zare. PMtM is the better book; but it's thin. IIRC tMoH shows more actual math and has more about tourney play; but, it's not as well written. (since IDK if your friend is interested in cash or tourneys like you play I listed both)

Next get a good theory book. The Theory of Poker is great but dense and can be boring if you're not serious about your game. It also involves examples from games you may not play like 7 card stud and Razz. I think it's definitely worth reading and definitely worth playing those games for free online to just understand the basic rules so that you can get the most out of that wonderful book; but, if you aren't that dedicated, skip it.

You can always get NLH Theory and Practice and Professional NLH vol.1. I haven't read J Little's new theory book so idk about it.

Then get the tMGoP part 2 and read the parts out of both that you need most.
the Psychology of Poker by schoonmaker is highly respected also.

Then I'd say it's time to get into strategy and hand reading. It shouldn't be too hard to find out which books are about which type of games they want to take to a more advanced level.

Good Luck

It is somewhat old but Getting Started In Holdem would be one of my suggestions.

Phil Gordons Little Green Book.

The Mental Game of Poker

The crushing micro limits was good for loose passive games, especially fr, and also live it would be good.

The next step is nlh10 up to nlh25 maybe. The same author has a low limit book but i have not read it and i do not know any other books that might be useful at those levels. What one wants here is a player who has beaten these limits in the long run, and other than that the rest of the books are just theory and speculations and they have no more idea than u have of how to play winning poker at these or any limits.

The gordon gold book is the only book of his worth something online, and only the 2.0 nlh chapter and only if u do not get a winning strategy from elsewere, at least getting some stuff for every street, so it is not a useless book then, but ur micro game will not get any better actually. It is difficult to collect a bit from here and there and get 100k hands of quality experience, just to learn how to beat micros, so i have not done it yet, playing more plo and mixed games.

For plo there is the mastering plo book as the 1st book, at least for online, also of use for high limit players learning to balance ranges, so it covers it all. The 2nd would be to add the hwang books, and the 1st of his books will be of use in live games, the rest for online, and live if similar, like with the mastering book.

For 8 plus game there is a book covering them all for at least beginners.

For limit holdem online there is the stox or so book, that has the preflop range thing one should more or less be using in nlh also. There are no good limit holdem books but one should get a range software for post flop play and learn from huhu bots like in the intelligent poker player as advanced reading though it also has the theory of balancing and so in it as just text maybe, so fits for beginners. The other half of that book is just personal chatting, and his other book is a no buy for that reason, having just a few pages of polaris bot lines, that u more or less find in the other book also.

For tournaments, i do not know for sure but there are many books for it.