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Improve your game

There are several ways to improve your skills in Texas Hold'em. A player will first of all improve the skills by practice playing. The more hands a player has played the more experience a player will have. Experience is what keeps players from making mistakes that cost money in the long run and they will also adjust quickly to other player's styles.

By playing online poker and reading books the learning process will accelerate. After a year of online poker a player can have experience that corresponds to several years of live play. Books are great for speeding up the learning process because it will inspire and lead players onto the right tracks. Many beginners spend months before they grasp even the simplest concepts of what starting hands to play, something they could have done in two days by reading a chapter in a poker book for beginners.

Watching poker on TV, the World Poker Tour for example can be helpful if the commentators are knowledgeable. There are also instructional DVD's that are helpful to the beginners. Howard Lederer's Secrets to No Limit Hold'em is a good DVD for complete beginners.

There are many opinions about what poker books a beginner should read. The books listed below are regarded as some of the best books on the market.

Book Tips
Books for beginners

  1. Small Stakes Hold'em by Sklanksy & Malmuth and Ed miller.
  2. Winning Low Limit Hold'em by Lee Jones
  3. Internet Texas Hold'em by Mathew Hilger
  4. Hold'em Poker by David Sklansky
Books for Intermediate and Advanced Players
  1. Theory of Poker by David Slansky
  2. Hold'em for Advanced Players by David Sklansky
  3. Harrington on Hold'em by Dan Harrington (Tournament book)
  4. Super System 2 by Doyle Brunson and other co-authors.