Free books and some poker

FREE! Everybody loves that word. I hopped on the ITH Free Book Offer yesterday. I signed up for an account at Poker Room and got the standard 40% deposit bonus, plus two free poker books.

This is the second time I have taken advantage of the free book offer. Unfortunately I had signed up at most poker sites before I found ITH so I was not eligible for the offers. Last time I received, Harrington On Holdem Vol 1 and Internet Texas Hold’em: Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro. Both are excellent reads and I would probably put both of them in the must read category. This time I am getting Harrington on Hold’em Vol. 2 and Theory of Poker.

I played some hands at $3/$6 and cleared about 130 points and lost a few bucks, nothing big. I really didn’t get any cards to play. My best hand was a set of 10’s and they got busted by a set of J’s. Oh well, it happens that way some days. He was ahead the whole hand, so it wasn’t a bad beat at all, but it still stung a little

I noticed that Poker Room now has team tournament play on their site. At first I thought it was something like a chop team, but I don’t think so now. Still need to research it a little before deciding if I want to try it out or not. I would love to do something like the chop team on ITH, but I am probably not good enough to play with them just yet.