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Title: Poker Wisdom of a Champion by Doyle Brunson ISBN: 1-58042-119-9 Publisher: Cardoza Pub Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: thoroughly entertaining
Comment: Previously released as "According to Doyle," this book collects a number of Brunsons columns for some now-defunct gambling magazines.
This is certainly not the book to teach anyone the basics of poker strategy, nor to introduce anyone to modern poker culture. It's not supposed to be. But Brunson's stories are a perfect introduction to the culture and ethos of poker as it was when Brunson was a young Texas road gambler. The columns are entertaining, basically popcorn reading (I suspect some or all of them were told rather than written). They aren't engineered for self-promotion, and although some could be taken as mildly moralizing, they're not designed to change anyone's life. They're just the stories that Doyle Brunson has to tell. I thought they were a lot of fun when I was starting out in poker, and I still pull the book off my shelf now and then. I'm very happy to see this new edition in print, because I would recommend it to new players as a useful book in shaping their attitudes towards the game.
The only thing I found disappointing about this new edition is that it doesn't appear to contain any new material. I don't know that I can fault anyone for that, but it would have been nice to have either some truly new material or at least some newly recovered vintage Brunson to add. Maybe I've just gotten too used to DVD extras.
Rating: 3
Summary: Poker Wisdom of a Champion
Comment: For those looking for a "how to" poker book showing you what hands to play pre-flop, odds, strategic plays, etc., will be disappointed in this book. Poker Wisdom is a fairly accurate title: this book contains poker stories from Brunson's past each with a "moral" as applied to poker. Some of the titles for the chapters are "Pride and Poker", "Honor in Gambling", "Gambling with Girls". Each essay is about 2-5 pages long. Some of the stories are fun to hear, sort of like listening to a poker campfire tale and others are entirely forgetable. Overall an enteraining read for poker players, but if you're looking for serious poker instruction this is not the book to buy.
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Title: Doyle Brunson's Super System by Doyle Brunson ISBN: 1580420818 Publisher: Cardoza Pub Pub. Date: 1979 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Play Poker Like the Pros by Phil Hellmuth Jr. ISBN: 0060005726 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky ISBN: 1880685000 Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players by David Sklansky, Mason Malmuth ISBN: 1880685221 Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker by James McManus ISBN: 0374236488 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 16 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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