One book I will personally recommend for someone who’s starting to learn the game or someone who can consider himself an intermediate player is The Psychology of Poker written by Allan Schoonmaker. The pages of this book have a lot of things to offer.
As you may have read everywhere, psychology is a vital part of poker. Understanding the psychology of the game is somehow knowing the reasons why you are doing what you are doing. The book explores into the motivations that one might have for playing poker. Schoonmaker delves into the principles of the game, evaluation of one’s self if you have the stuff needed for poker, subjective rationality, and a bunch of other poker psychology stuff. The good thing about the book is that everything is presented the way you and I will understand it.
One good section of the book goes into the Styles Grid which helps you answer some basic questions to determine how you should play the game.
The book was published back in 2000 just before everyone went crazy for the card game. The author hits the spot that one must be tight-aggressive. One just cannot wait all day and all night to get the best cards to play or your chips will be way down because of the blinds.
We also commend the chapter of the book which helps us analyze the right frame of mind and style of play when dealing with loose passive poker players. Schoonmaker points out that discipline prevails in poker.
The Psychology of Poker is a good read. One great addition it brought to my game is patience.
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