Winning Low-Limit Hold’em by Lee Jones is another great poker book that has stood the test of time very well. Originally published in 1994 and updated in 2000, the book is geared towards beginning poker players and strives to provide exactly what the title promises: a strategy for winning at small buy-in Limit Hold’em games.

First things first, this book is for Limit Hold’em (LHE) players, so the lessons and strategies won’t apply as much to the more popular No Limit Hold’em (NLHE) games that you find in most online poker rooms and casinos these days. While the book may be for LHE players, the approach it teaches -- play a tight, aggressive game – is one that definitely transfers to other forms of poker. Winning Low-Limit Hold’em teaches players the correct way to approach the game, and those lessons can apply to LHE as well as other variants such as NLHE and 7 Card Stud.

Winning Low-Limit Hold’em by Lee Jones is broken into chapters along the obvious, natural lines, covering in order the basic concepts behind calculating odds, reading the board, and the typical makeup of players in a low-limit Hold’em game. The book then goes on, step-by-step, to walk the reader through what to consider with pre-flop play, post-flop play, when to check-raise, and when to bluff. Every aspect of playing LHE is covered, from when you sit down at the table to when you stand up to cash out, with no topic left untouched.

Jones takes the time to not just simply tell the reader what to do in certain situations, but to provide larger context and lessons that teach the reader why they should be reacting in this or that way. Hand examples and quizzes drive home each lesson, so that the reader comes away with a better understanding of what goes into various decisions at the poker table and what factors should be weighed. While specific advice about certain hands is given at times, the larger goal of the book is to teach players how to properly think about all of the decisions that must be made during a hand of poker.