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by: Doyle Brunson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.412
EAN: 9781580422208
ISBN: 1580422209
Label: Cardoza
Manufacturer: Cardoza
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: February 12, 2008
Publisher: Cardoza
Sales Rank: 226636
Studio: Cardoza
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Learn what it takes to be a great poker player by climbing inside the mind of poker's most famous champion. Fascinating anecdotes and adventures from Doyle's early career playing poker in roadhouses and with other great champions are interspersed with important lessons one can learn from the champion who has made more money at poker than anyone else in the history of the game. Readers learn what makes a great player tick, how he approaches the game, and receive candid, powerful advice from the legend himself. Foreword by America's foremost poker authority, Mike Caro, who says, 'Brunson is the greatest poker player who ever lived, and this book shows why.'
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Rating:  - A world filled with strange and interesting people, and questionable adventures
The adventures of an old poker world champion - a look into the old days. "According to Doyle" is the story of Doyle Brunson, a 16-time World Series of Poker Champion. While providing excellent Poker throughout, "According to Doyle" focuses on Doyle's travels through the world of professional poker playing - a world filled with strange and interesting people, questionable adventures, his climb to the top of the world, and so much more. A deftly written memoir and guide for poker fans, "According ... Read More
Rating: - Poker does not stop at the table
This book has shown me that poker is beyond the table, beyond the cards, beyond the chips. It is a part of my life and everything I do in it. Doyle combines his life experience with art of poker, because both meet at a point and defines what kind of player you are.
Rating:  - One of the very best tells some stories
This book unlike his other work, SuperSystem a Course in Power Poker, is not going to do much or your poker game. It is a group of articles he wrote for an out of print gambling magazine. They are recollections of playing on the underground trail of big-poker games in the 50's through the 70's and then playing for vast sums of money in Vegas. Some of the stories are quite good but not all are exactly gripping. If you didn't already know many of the points these stories make, e.g. pay attention ... Read More
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