Reddit reviews Applications of No-Limit Hold'em

You need to change your mentality and your view of poker. You can't play with scared money. Read some good poker books to hone your strategy.

• Easy Game
  
• Application Of No Limit Poker
  
• The Mental Game of Poker
  
• Every Hand Revealed
  
  Those are a good start. Lose the fear. You can't just play the cards, you need to read your opponents and play poker. One thing I do at home is deal out 9 poker hands face up and see how I would play each one and deal out all the streets see how you would play each hand. What if you played one hand differently? What if you raised or re-raised a particular hand? How would that affect the other hands? That helped me out a lot.

This is the book I am reading right now that made me post this thread:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EQM4XAQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Some of it is flying over my head, some of it I'm understanding at least on a conceptual level. I assume it's like mathematics of poker based on your example of it.

How important do you think having that type of gameplan is to being a good player? That requires quite a lot of pre-planning to map out your range like that.