Sunday, October 9
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I just can't help myself
[journal] When it's late at night and I'm surfing the web, sometimes, an unstoppable urge takes over my little body.
I buy poker books, and I'm not talking about a single book, they come in threes.
One moment I'm reading the customer reviews on amazon, the next I'm placing a few in the shopping cart just to see how much it would total if I were to purchase it and the next there's this credit card (with my name on it) lying on the table in front of me and I get an email sent from amazon thanking me for the purchases. It's happened twice now. It's like magic.
I nearly bought six poker books this time, but contained myself to three in the last moment.
The good thing however is all the books I've bought from amazon.ca have been 30% off and they don't charge PST, so I've saved 37%. You know I'm totally SAVING money buying these books.
Poker books I've read (2 of them I've split with Mike and the rest I've bought myself):
1. Moneymaker : How an Amateur Poker Player Turned $40 into $2.5 Million at the World Series of Poker -- by Chris Moneymaker (Hardcover)
2. No Limit and Pot Limit Hold'em by -- Tom McEvoy, T.J. Cloutier
3. Small Stakes Hold 'em: Winning Big With Expert Play -- by Ed Miller, et al
4. Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players -- by David Sklansky, Mason Malmuth
5. Phil Hellmuth's Texas Hold'em -- by Phil Hellmuth
6. Harrington on Hold 'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments: Strategic Play (Vol. 1) -- by Dan Harrington, Bill Robertie
7. Harrington on Hold'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments: Endgame, 2 -- by Dan Harrington, Bill Robertie
8. Caro's Book of Poker Tells -- by Mike Caro
The three new incoming books:
1. Ace on the River: An Advanced Poker Guide -- by Barry Greenstein, Doyle Brunson (Foreword)
2. Poker Essays, Volume III -- by Mason Malmuth
3. Weighing the Odds in Hold’em Poker -- by King Yao
In the not to distant future:
1. One of a Kind : The Rise and Fall of Stuey "The Kid" Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player (Hardcover)
by Nolan Dalla, Peter Alson, Mike Sexton
2. Poker Essays, Volume I -- by Mason Malmuth (if the III was good)
3. Poker Essays, Volume II-- by Mason Malmuth
There are a few other general gambling books that have caught my eye. It seems as though I have to look outside the poker genre because I've pretty much devoured all the good poker books.
Oh and if by chance you are interested, the Harrington books are the best.
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