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any good new poker books (non-theory) out there?

  • 01-09-2008 02:37PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭


    I'm off on my holidays next week and therefore need a book or two to peruse while staring out the window at the rain.

    I think I bought my last new poker book last year (Bigger Deal - utter ****e), anything come out since then that's worth reading?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,751 ✭✭✭BigCityBanker


    Print off the back catelogues of your blog - reading them should be enough for you.

    I read Ross O'Carroll Kellys latest offering whilst en route to SA - How to get by on 10,000 a day in South Dublin - essential reading in these times of recession.

    Apparently Tommy Angelo released a book recently enough that was interesting


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭Glowingmind


    I'm off on my holidays next week and therefore need a book or two to peruse while staring out the window at the rain.

    I think I bought my last new poker book last year (Bigger Deal - utter ****e), anything come out since then that's worth reading?

    Non-theory books i liked (none of them are that new):

    Jesse May - Shut Up and Deal
    The Professor, The Banker and the Suicide King (can;t remember author)
    Nolan Dalla - The man behind the shades
    Amarillo Slim - Amarillo Slim in a world full of fat people (no mention of kiddie fiddling in this funnily)
    The Biggest Game in Town


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭El Stuntman


    Print off the back catelogues of your blog - reading them should be enough for you.

    my blog is dead to me now (and to everyone else)
    I read Ross O'Carroll Kellys latest offering whilst en route to SA - How to get by on 10,000 a day in South Dublin - essential reading in these times of recession.

    the newspaper column is humorous enough for a once-a-week giggle, don't know if I could read an entire book of ROCK - surely it becomes repetitive?
    Apparently Tommy Angelo released a book recently enough that was interesting

    I was looking for it alright but can't find it here


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭El Stuntman


    Non-theory books i liked (none of them are that new):

    Jesse May - Shut Up and Deal
    The Professor, The Banker and the Suicide King (can;t remember author)
    Nolan Dalla - The man behind the shades
    Amarillo Slim - Amarillo Slim in a world full of fat people (no mention of kiddie fiddling in this funnily)
    The Biggest Game in Town

    I have them all except for the paedophile


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 663 ✭✭✭CourierCollie


    Peter Alson- Take me to the river
    I liked it, but hardly new and you probably already have it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭jbravado


    Just read Jesse Mays again-I love the way he writes-so so good.

    God Lord bigger deal was teh missed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭El Stuntman


    jbravado wrote: »
    Just read Jesse Mays again-I love the way he writes-so so good.

    I loved his image of one of his imaginary pros standing over the table and raining black 100 dollar chips onto the felt while the dealer vainly tried to get him to stop splashing the pot - 'Black Bart'?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭TripleAce


    Non-theory books i liked (none of them are that new):

    Jesse May - Shut Up and Deal
    The Professor, The Banker and the Suicide King (can;t remember author)
    Nolan Dalla - The man behind the shades
    Amarillo Slim - Amarillo Slim in a world full of fat people (no mention of kiddie fiddling in this funnily)
    The Biggest Game in Town

    Which one do you think is the best of them (or two best) in terms of story? I am planning for a holiday soon and would like some easy reading (no theory books)....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,533 ✭✭✭ollyk1


    Buy and read the "the Black Swan" (finance book) and if its any good I'll borrow it off you!! :D

    Edit: I'd imagine that Tommy Angelo book is available for download someplace ;). Alternatively you could just donwload all his articles and make them into a nice e-book and read them on your laptop/tablet/pda at your leisure.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭Glowingmind


    TripleAce wrote: »
    Which one do you think is the best of them (or two best) in terms of story? I am planning for a holiday soon and would like some easy reading (no theory books)....

    I think the Amarillo Slim book is the best in terms of being a holiday read, followed by 'the man behind the shades' and 'shut up and deal'


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭El Stuntman


    TripleAce wrote: »
    Which one do you think is the best of them (or two best) in terms of story? I am planning for a holiday soon and would like some easy reading (no theory books)....

    Biggest Game in Town - by a mile


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭TripleAce


    Biggest Game in Town - by a mile

    Cheers!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 260 ✭✭BetdaqPokerMgr


    A great book though it is semi theory is Gus Hanson's new book - Every hand revealed. Well written and reads like a novel almost! Doesn't feel like HOH or anything like that.

    Stu Ungar biography good too.

    Bringin Down the House easy good read too.


    And for something non poker but very good holiday book is the new James Bond novel, first one written by new author, since Ian Fleming passed away - Devil May Cry by Sebastian Faulks. (Currently being filmed, for release next year).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 595 ✭✭✭Tight Ted


    I was gonna start my own thread about this. But is Gus Hansen's 'Every hand revealed' worth a buy? I hate spending dosh on crap books.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 260 ✭✭BetdaqPokerMgr


    Tight Ted wrote: »
    I was gonna start my own thread about this. But is Gus Hansen's 'Every hand revealed' worth a buy? I hate spending dosh on crap books.

    I've bought a lot of poker books and been disappointed with some but definitely Gus's is worth shelling out for, cheaper than most too and gives great insight into his mental strategy aswell as some card strategy, all in prose type format. Has the odd joke thrown in too lol.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭TripleAce


    Tight Ted wrote: »
    I was gonna start my own thread about this. But is Gus Hansen's 'Every hand revealed' worth a buy? I hate spending dosh on crap books.

    I read that and liked it.......many of the pro's books (Harrington, Hellmuth, etc) show you the benefits of playing tight. Gus books as you can imagine shows you the other side of the medal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭AKQJ10


    Got Gus Hansens book, pretty good, certainly worth a read


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭El Stuntman


    AKQJ10 wrote: »
    Got Gus Hansens book, pretty good, certainly worth a read

    good grief, would have thought you'd be more of a Harrington man ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 595 ✭✭✭Tight Ted


    To the OP, the best book I've ever read on Holidays was Frank Skinner's autobiography, no level. It's pretty old now but I'm sure you can pick it up in most bookshops.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭El Stuntman


    Tight Ted wrote: »
    To the OP, the best book I've ever read on Holidays was Frank Skinner's autobiography, no level. It's pretty old now but I'm sure you can pick it up in most bookshops.

    I think I'll skip that one! thanks anyway Ted (I think)

    Did some purchasing at lunchtime so I'm all set for everything except tales of debauched gambling. To cap it all, neither my wife, my daughter or my dog can play poker and there ain't no internet where we're going :eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 595 ✭✭✭Tight Ted


    Sorry don't mean to hijack but another question.

    I'm ordering 3 books from Amazon, and I can see I can get them all nearly at half price when I click 'buy new or second hand'. Will this increase my shipping costs? Am I better off just getting them all directly off amazon?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭El Stuntman


    Tight Ted wrote: »
    Sorry don't mean to hijack but another question.

    I'm ordering 3 books from Amazon, and I can see I can get them all nearly at half price when I click 'buy new or second hand'. Will this increase my shipping costs? Am I better off just getting them all directly off amazon?

    not if you get them all from the same reseller (like caiman or one of those), that's what I usually do - although, being a technophobe, I prefer to buy in a real bookstore


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭AKQJ10


    Gave up on Harrington once he said to play tight in oop


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Conbro


    Gave up on Harrington once he said to play tight in oop

    lmfao


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭SIDESHOW BOBs


    cant remember author a few years old now was a riveting read. journey man pros poker real life experiences, the passage about jerking off while playing 10 20 limit certainly brought a smile to my face.

    could have given off a few false tells on the turn lol :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,079 ✭✭✭smurph


    AKQJ10 wrote: »
    Gave up on Harrington once he said to play tight in oop

    lol:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Doc Farrell


    2 of my favourite books, not just because they're about poker.

    The Education of a Poker Player by Herbert O Yardley. Incredible life, please google him.

    40 Years a Gambler on the Mississippi, by George Devol (e). if you like Mark Twain or books about con artists you won't regret this one. Published by a press that normally only publish American military titles, Westpoint i think.

    I've read Yardley's book about 4 times ( also The Black Chamber, about working in codes for the Government) and the Mississippi book is in my toilet library, perfect for a 3 minute peruse.

    do it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭Glowingmind



    The Education of a Poker Player by Herbert O Yardley. Incredible life, please google him.

    Keep meaning to read this, it's next on the list.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,607 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    the Mississippi book is in my toilet library, perfect for a 3 minute peruse.
    Out of curiosity Doc, is that a physical toilet library, or an implied one?
    serious question


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Doc Farrell


    Mellor wrote: »
    Out of curiosity Doc, is that a physical toilet library, or an implied one?
    serious question

    well, because you asked, and there's no good answer here, yes, its a real one.

    wanna borrow a book? :D


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