Good Probability Theory Textbook for Computer Science

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I am a rising CS senior planning on going for a PhD. I would like to study probability theory on my own for its usefulness in machine learning and game theory. There are quite a few textbooks out there, so I would like a recommendations on books that have good coverage on stuff relevant in CS.

I was thinking of going either with Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by Jaynes or with Introduction to Probability by Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis. Both seem to be received very positively, but I don't know if I should go with these or another textbook written with applications in mind.

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My probability class used the second one and it covers all the basics while getting into estimation, inference and some stochastic processes. I personally liked it and several of my friends used it to prepare for out machine learning classes.