Poker books

[Penny]

Poker as Life
Lee Robert Schreiber

101 Lessons from the world's greatest game.

Lesson 36: There's no such thing as luck.
In the long run there's no luck in poker, but the short run is longer than most people know - Rick Bennet, author, King of a Small world

The notion of luck, per se, is for losers. It's the easiest thing to blame when things go poorly.
"You dropped a bundle, Hoss. What happened?"
"Bad luck."
The mathematical and philosophical facts indicate otherwise:
There is no such thing as luck (bad or good). Shit happens (See No. 12).
That's life. Deal with it. By the end of your mortal run, unless you've been specifically targeted by some higher power (see the Bible: Book of Job), your stuff should break about even, give or take.

Streaks, on the other hand, definitely do exist. They run good and bad, hot and cold, "lucky" and "unlucky" (for lack of better terminology). Your job is simple: maximize the hot streaks, minimize the cold ones. How you do that is up to your discipline, your nerve, and your Maker. It is the choices you - and only you - make that will ultimately determine your fate.

You make your own luck.

That is lesson 36 from my favorite poker book ...

[jolub]

I think the better books are these ones. Play Poker Like the Pro's by Phil Hellmuth, Hold'em Poker For Advanced Players By Sklansky and Malmuth, and any book written by Harrington.

There's a new book out which I haven't seen but I'm told is very good, Gus Hansen's Every Hand Revealed.