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Message: [QUOTE="MediaBLITZ, post: 1784052, member: 77190"] As I spend more time with books in my library (as well as DVDs) I am finding the answer to this question to be pretty much the same answer to, "how do I play this hand?" It depends. What game are you playing? Tournament or cash? Deepstack or short stack? What stakes are you playing? Micro, small, mega? Where are you at as a player? What poker concepts do you understand and practice at the table? Do you at least practice the basics? Are you consistently working to put your opponent on a range? Do you currently have what could be called study habits? Do you practice hand analysis? No offense, but to say you have been playing poker for a fair while (or even if you said you had been playing nightly for 30 years) does not tell anyone enough to gauge your level and whether or not you should be reading Phil Gordon or Bill Chen. All anyone can offer is the books they liked or learned something from and those endorsements usually come without qualification (no answers to the above questions). I have a bunch of books and DVDs on the shelf and have paid for a few different training sites and I cannot really attribute my profit margin (yes, I actually have one) to any single source. But when I am at the table it has been pretty easy to sort the Negreanuites from the Gordonites and the Harringtonites because I became pretty familiar with their teachings. That in itself is pretty invaluable. So here's my opinion - if you have not been doing a lot of poker books you can't really go wrong just grabbing the mainstream stuff (Gordon, Harrington, Negreanu) because at the very least you are going to have to play against it consistently. Now having said all that... I am currently on an Ed Miller kick - if his name is on it, it must be good :) But you know, that's just where I am at. YMMV [/QUOTE]

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