Free Poker Online Coaching Reveals The Best Poker Strategy Books

We hope you already know about all the free online poker training to be had at NoPayPOKER that covers all levels from beginner to advanced as well as playing live room games.

If you have not checked those free poker online training lessons out yet see the education master page and look now, check them out, there is loads for all there.

While there is an invaluable storehouse of poker knowledge there we also know that some of you may want more.

So to that end we’re starting a series of posts highlighting some of the best poker books to read we know about.

The poker books reviewed has been filtered from the huge heaving mass that has resulted from the poker boom of the last 2 decades so that only the best poker books to read make it to the list.

This first article looks at what for most of you NoPay members is the top most obvious topic, that of online poker guides. This is a difficult subject area, there is less published that you’d imagine and a lot of it has bad reviews plus, of course, online poker is a fast changing subject meaning that some good review but older books are now outdated. Because of this only a handful make it to the “best of” list.

The structure is always to give the essential information on the book, a summary of the content and then summarised reviews we have discovered on the pros and cons of the book.

To get hold of these books visit the NoPay best poker strategy books page.

Following that you can also go play some free online poker for fun against real people with no danger of losing your cash, an ideal spot to test what you read before taking a chance on real cash.

Title – Harrington on Online Cash Games; 6-Max No-Limit Hold ‘em
* Author(s) – Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie
* This edition published – June 2010
* Pages – 530

Outline –
Dan Harrington teaches you the primary strategies and techniques which will allow you to master on-line poker. Internet poker is a environment, as any of you who also play live games know, which varies in some important ways from the realm of casino games.

Topic areas dealt with include:
* How to handle sizes of stack.
* Playing at 6-max tables.
* Tackling high aggression.
* And, unlike most on-line poker books, ways to use poker databases and heads up displays (HUDs) to obtain in depth and useable information on how your opponents play.

Plus, there are detailed strategies for micro and small stakes preflop and post-flop play.

This book is highly recommended for all online poker players who already play cash games and lose more than they like! Plus it’s the perfect bible for free online poker players looking to make the move and live card room game players looking to go online who have not played online much before.

For players just starting poker we strongly suggest that you start by playing free online poker games first and learn the ropes before risking your real money. Yes, you can get the book and read it as you learn to play just don’t risk your real money yet please!

Favorable review comments –
* Don’t Buy this guide – I do not want you getting any better! I strongly recommend this book to any online player who is not my opponent.
* Specifically explains numerous handy statistics that may be utilized to take full advantage of patterns in your opponents pre and postflop behaviors.
* Some genuinely good tips on note-taking.
* He gives you the tools to assess your opponents play and exploit them when they are poor, or when they are strong.
* I am amazed with this book. All of his books are good, but this particular one really gets into details regarding the different types of games and scenarios you will come across.
* Its a good book and a must for every online player. You can use the tools in the book for full ring game too. Great book.

Cons –
Nothing major seen aside from one crazy naysayer sort that would most likely say night was day just to be different.

Title – The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition
* Author(s) – Andy Bloch, Richard Brodie, Chris Ferguson and Ted Forrest
* This edition published – June 2007
* Pages – 448

Outline –
Full Tilt will be dead and buried now but the knowledge from their team professionals who collaborated to write this book remains awesome for all on-line poker players.

Pros –
* I feared this book would be a quick buck job cashing in on the online poker craze boom with the writers shoving out a cheap chapter for a fast fistful of dollars and that the results would be poor. This is not the case. There is stuff in here that you won’t get elsewhere.
* Ferguson’s section is like a little instruction class with him.
* It will become a “have to have” book for poker tournament players.
* I hate to have to endorse this. It really provides far too many trade secrets.
* Newbies and players who have played for less than a few years could possibly play 10 more years and never absorb close to this much knowledge.

Cons –
* Separated into several chapters with each different from the last and written by another player. As a result it is a bit mixed up.
* Some have said it is little use for internet as on-line poker is all rigged…

So this ends the first best poker books to read review article, keep an eye out for the next which will have more online poker specific resources that, while not free have been proven to pay for themselves by those who are willing to read, learn and apply what they learn.

And if these are not for you then get over to our free poker skills sections and at least read or re-read one of our free online poker lessons.