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|  | Author: Doyle Brunson
Publisher: Cardoza
List Price: $29.95
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Seller: CDC Books
Rating:  126 reviews
Sales Rank: 2889
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Pages: 605
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.7
ISBN: 1580420818
EAN: 9781580420815
ASIN: 1580420818
Publication Date: 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Slight water damage
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 The Best Advice October 21, 2003
Shane M. Dayton (Fairbanks, AK, USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you want to be the best, you learn from the best. I've only read it once, and even now I've seen a drastic improvment in my game. He really shows you how to tell when a hand looks like junk, but is a gold mine, versus when a hand looks good but is junk. If you want to learn to be a better player, this is the book to read.
 outdated October 12, 2003
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
Yeah, the section on no-limit hold-em still has some value (although so many books published since, cover the same ground). All the other material in the book is fun, but just about worthless in the modern game of poker. Get a more updated poker book, there are zillions on them. Many of which cover the same material, but little nuggets of useful info can be gathered from each and help you evolve into a solid complete player. In other words, buy several poker books. There is no "one" poker bible as some say there is.
Doyle's No Limit Hold'em chapter is excellent! August 1, 2003
MPE (Tampere, Finland)
20 out of 26 found this review helpful
During the years I have red about 10 books about Hold'em but must admit Doyle Brunson's chapter in Super System is still simply the best. You won't need much more to start with No Limit Hold'em than this. Other books are more or less just repetition of this one.
Still a Super/System July 27, 2003
Mr. David Welsh (London, UK)
185 out of 192 found this review helpful
Brunson & Co. wrote this book in the mid 1970s and if your interest in poker as a game with a very rich and colourful history is anything like mine its well worth buying. The chapters where Brunson talks about his past are great background to understanding one of the all-time great champions.As for the lessons in this post-graduate school of poker, some really are of historical value only. I suppose Caro's lecture on Draw might be of use in home games but Skalansky's on hi-lo has been out-flanked by time - the qualifier did for it. Baldwin's chapter on limit hold'em is also of no value - not only has the game changed (they used to play it with a single blind and antes from every player - to make things easier and quicker in casinos they changed to the big & little blind structure) but there are five or so more books that today to a better job. Two chapters retain value. Firstly, and often overlooked, is Chip Reese's chapter on Seven Card Stud. Its not particularly profound and I feel Chip gives away less than the others, but its still a very good starting place. Seven Card Stud hasn't changed much since the 1930s so this chapter retains value. But the the real gem is Brunson's own chapter on no limit Hold'em. Its extremely interesting and given the greater freedom no limit gives the change in the game structure matters less. No limit is not a war of fine percentages like limit, it is a game of great psychological violence. Brunson's system is VERY aggressive. I think very few people would feel so comfortable playing so many connectors out of position in no limit games so they can stage all-in bluffs. You would need to be up against a very timid rock garden to play just as Brunson says. But it remains, undisputedly, the best guide to no limit cash games (but not tournaments - see Cloutier and McEvoy). Buy it. You'll thank me.
Not entirely outdated... June 11, 2003
33 out of 42 found this review helpful
I would say this: If you don't read and learn this book's strategy and theory regarding no limit hold'em, you are missing something at the table. Yes, the lowball sections and some of the others are outdated because those games have changed or disappeared entirely. However, the no-limit holdem sections, and especially Brunson's own, are still bible.
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