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 enlarge | Author: Doyle Brunson
Publisher: Cardoza
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 455544
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1580421199
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.412
EAN: 9781580421195
ASIN: 1580421199
Publication Date: November 4, 2003
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 Oh, of course. August 22, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
A clear, practical guide which helps the reader with many complex issues. My initial response was, "Oh, of course." because these truths seem obvious. But discovering them the hard way could prove expensive. A valuable acquisition to any library.
Nice Read January 13, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
A very interesting, quick read. Mostly a collection of articles Doyle has written over the years for various publications. The book delivers advice, but is not really a strategy guide. Some interesting stories from one of the all-time greats.
Simply the Best November 23, 2004
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I've read at least a half dozen of the top poker theory books, and I learned more from this one book than from all of the others. The wisdom Brunson espouses in this book is simple, yet it is so profound that it will change the way you view yourself and your opponents at the poker table.
The book is mainly a collection of articles Brunson has written over the years for various poker magazines. However, each one contains nuggest of poker genius (mostly related to No Limit Texas Hold 'Em)in plain simple English that authors like Sklansky and Malmuth have complicated with mathematical theories. Brunson is a simple man and he tells simple stories. The bottom line: poker is a game of people and if you understand the people you play with, then your decision making process is simplifed. The cards are secondary (although he does admit that with the influx of new players in the last few years, even he has to have good hands to make a move!). Even if you don't appreciate his wisdom, the stories he tells about the Texas roadgames of yesteryear are worth the purchase price. Somebody needs to make a movie of this guy's life!
Insights, advice, and anecdotes on and about poker October 6, 2004
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson is a living legend of the poker world. Televised poker tournaments are wildly popular and owe their increasing popularity to such legendary players as Brunson and the invention of the micro-camera that shows individual player's cards in that "Cadillac of poker" known as No-Limit Texas Hold'em, which is known to "take a minute to learn and a life time to master". But no matter what kind of poker you play, Doyle Brunson's Poker Wisdom Of A Champion is considered "must reading" as an informed and informative compendium of insights, advice, and anecdotes on and about poker and those who play it whether it be for small stakes or veritable fortunes. Poker Wisdom Of A Champion is particularly recommended for those legions of armchair poker fans who follow any of the televised poker competitions such as the World Poker Tour, Late Night Poker, or the annual World Series of Poker Championship (which Brunson won back-to-back in 1976 and 1977) held in Las Vegas. If you only have time for reading one poker book this year, make it Doyle Brunson's Poker Wisdom Of A Champion!
thoroughly entertaining November 15, 2003
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Previously released as "According to Doyle," this book collects a number of Brunson's 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.
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