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Message: [QUOTE="dmorris68, post: 1530636, member: 40397"] ^^^ agreed on Sklansky and Malmuth as I pointed out above. However disagree with you on HoH being "mathy." Not at all. I will say that it's geared primarily towards slow, live NLHE MTTs and so shouldn't be wholly applied to all NLHE games, but much of it does apply and the information there is sound and easy to digest compared to most Sklansky/Malmuth books. I'd say Gordon's books and Snyder's TPTF1 are probably good for beginners that want to play tourneys, especially the latter for fast online tourneys. For cash games, Harrington on Cash (although I haven't read all of it yet) is probably a bit easier to digest than PNLHE/SSNLHE although those are probably the best cash game books on the shelf. I can't speak to Stud or any of the non-Hold'em games as I don't play them anymore and don't have any books on them (other than general card game rule books like Hoyles). It's important to consider that there are two different audiences for those players who are just starting to improve their game. First is the raw beginner, who knows very little about poker at all and is just experiencing it for the first time. These people need a gentle hand-holding through the rules and very basic strategy of play. Then you have the still-immature (skill-wise) player who knows the basics of the game, and wants to step up to actually applying some basic math, pot odds, short-game strategies, etc. These are still beginners in my mind, they're just a bit higher level beginner. These are the target audience for most of the books I listed above, mainly all but the dryest of Sklanksy/Malmuth/Chen/et al publications. Mosman's SnG book I think is quite suitable to this level of player. [/QUOTE]

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