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Hey Guys
Thought this would be a good place to get recommendations. I understand GTO but wanted to to get into in more depth. Does anyone recommend a specific book?
I’d read and master these three books in this order.
Poker’s 1% by Ed Miller … The Gateway Drug. Really strong tool that teaches you the fundamental concepts of “GTO” play, but also gives your exercises and study tools to improve your range construction. It’s not super advanced mathematically, but the core concepts are great.
Applications of No-Limit Hold’em … If you’re looking for something more in-depth, this is the place to go. It doesn’t come as intuitively as Poker’s 1%, so you should probably be familiar with the language of math and probability (nothing crazy, just familiar) as well as with GTO fundamentals. This book is more rigorous in actually determining correct frequencies in different situations.
Once you’ve really got an understanding of the information in those two books (seriously, reading them will take a week – you can’t put them down – but really really really understanding them and applying them to your strategy will take much longer) then you should move on to:
No-Limit Hold’em for Advanced Players: Emphasis on Tough Games by Matthew Janda. This book talks about some really advanced concepts related to range construction, bet sizing, and many other things that make you very difficult to play against and help you make insanely profitable range-based plays.
Seriously though. It can be really easy to just skim through the first two books to get to the one with “Advanced” in the title. I did this myself when reading these and ultimately found I had just wasted my time. Super advanced strategies are only useful when you have a developed strategy based in strong foundational theory.
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