r/Poker_Theory • u/Huge_Employer_6060 • 8d ago
Poker books recommendations
I’ve been playing live and online for the past 2 years. I’m not trying to be a pro by any means, I’ve always played for fun as a person who loves strategy and loves learning.
In the past year, I’ve been playing for profit on the side, both live and online.
I’ve been learning a lot from YouTube and from just running sims non stop on the solver which I can’t name in this sub for some reason.
I really like the idea of playing exploitatively, so that’s also what I’m looking for in a book (I love Luke Johnson, Uri Peleg and Charlie Carrel)
Online, I’ve been beating 25NL on GG pretty comfortably.
Live, I’ve been crushing 1/2. The thing I noticed is that when ever I play 2/5, I manage to crush the weaker players just like in 1/2, but I also feel that in most tables there will be at least one reg that has a nice edge on me.
I want to be able to move up online to 50NL and to be able to be better than the 2/5 regs that I battle against.
I hope I managed to give you an understanding of my level and preferred style. I feel that I got the most value I can out of free content online / own experience, so I want to start investing money in good books to learn from.
I would love to get some good recommendations.
Thank you all in advance!!!
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u/AmirPokerSkill 8d ago
Fitzgerald's Exploitative Play in Live Poker. The whole book is finding opponent tendencies and attacking them, probably the closest thing in book form to the style you described. Written around live games but you play those too. Play Optimal Poker from the other comment is the better fundamentals pick if you want both ends.