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When it comes to lists of the best poker books people’s minds immediately gravitate towards the poker primers like Super System, Harrington on Hold’ Em, and The Theory of Poker. Lost in the shuffle are the books that do not detail the strategies of poker, but instead offer insights and background into the most American […]

When it comes to lists of the best poker books people’s minds immediately gravitate towards the poker primers like Super System, Harrington on Hold’ Em, and The Theory of Poker. Lost in the shuffle are the books that do not detail the strategies of poker, but instead offer insights and background into the most American […]

Titanic Thompson, born Alvin Clarence Thomas, has been the subject of a few books over the years as well as a long expose in Sports Illustrated, so I went into Kevin Cook’s latest effort of cataloguing the legends of the perhaps the most famous gambler in world history wondering what point of view Cook would […]

When I began playing poker choosing a ‘primer’ –as poker strategy books are often called-was a fairly simple process, since there were typically only a handful of books on the particular topic in print! And no, I’m not 75 years-old, I began playing poker a few years before the nuclear bomb known as Chris Moneymaker […]

When I began playing poker choosing a ‘primer’ -as poker strategy books are often called-was a fairly simple process, since there were typically only a handful of books on the particular topic in print! And no, I’m not 75 years-old, I began playing poker a few years before the nuclear bomb known as Chris Moneymaker […]

When I began playing poker choosing a ‘primer’ –as poker strategy books are often called-was a fairly simple process, since there were typically only a handful of books on the particular topic in print! And no, I’m not 75 years-old, I began playing poker a few years before the nuclear bomb known as Chris Moneymaker […]

10 Poker books you MUST read: Ace on the River When I began playing poker choosing a ‘primer’ –as poker strategy books are often called-was a fairly simple process, since there were typically only a handful of books on the particular topic in print! And no, I’m not 75 years-old, I began playing poker a […]

Week 2 of The Big Game saw another collection of poker pros take on an amateur player -who it turns out isn’t much of an amateur-and the table talk was able to rival Week 1’s despite the absence of Phil Laak, Tony G, and Phil Hellmuth. In Week 2 we heard table talk that went […]

World Series of Poker Day 1 recap: Casino Employees and $50k Championship The World Series of Poker has come a long way since Benny Binion invited six of the most formidable poker players to battle it out in his casino for the title of Best Poker Player in the World. The current incarnation of the […]

The Premise: The Theory of Poker was first published in 1987, by Two Plus Two Publishing; written by David Sklansky, considered one of the foremost poker theoreticians of all-time.  Sklansky takes the reader on a journey through every aspect of poker theory and concepts, always tying the topics in with his Theory of Poker, which […]