As the token Curmudgeon around here let me suggest that you invest into Bobo first and leave Royal Road alone for a while.
Why?
Because so many of us get addicted to card tricks and never learn to do anything other than card tricks, so give yourself a chance. Learning slights is A#1 so look into the Bill Tarr "Now You See it; Now Your Don't" books, they will give you some significant advantages. If you go to
Stevens Magic you will find tons of videos on improvisational and Bar type magic, which sounds to be more of what you're after. I think there is a short series or trilogy out on "Bet Ya" type magic as well that you may enjoy.
If you are one of the few that still smoke, learn about cigarette controls and effects such as the famed Cig thru Coin (it made me comfy for many years).
Stay Away from
Mentalism until you have some real experience in presenting and performing. It is a very performance heavy aspect of the magical arts and contrary to what magicians will tell you, it is not the same thing as magic. If you treat it as such you will loose and in ways audiences don't readily forget. There's a great deal of Mental magic out there to play with and you'll have loads of fun with it and if you download that PDF in the link you'll come to understand my world a little better.
I don't recall seeing anyone pointing you to the Mark Wilson,
Tarbell or Joshua Jay Courses in Magic. All three are excellent but I'm only familiar with the first two directly. The Wilson Course will give you some foundation in a wide variety of areas while Tarbell is a far older tome that offers an even wider grasp on things. You can find the CD on Tarbell at Lybrary.com it's the best $30.00 you'll invest into your new hobby (
NOTE: the physical collection of Tarbell sells for a bloody fortune now days, but it's always be expensive).
Royal Road is an excellent book as is Stars of Magic, the two bibles on card work when I was younger as were all of the Scarnes books. My issue, as I said, is too many guys get hooked on the paste boards because of convenience and the fact that magicians are cheap S.O.B.s ;-) so just let that side of things ride until you learn more of the other stuff. As my old sensei used to say,
"you can always teach a boxer how to use his feet but you cannot teach 90% of the martial artists to use their hands." Magic is the same