Beginning with Caro's cute but now very familiar, "In the beginning, everything was even money," most or all of the tips have been recycled. However the tips are hardly "exclusive" for SuperSystem2 as claimed. This would be 43 tips from Mike Caro cribbed from his lectures and books. It contains 47 chapters in which Brunson recalls his early days and life on the road.)įollowing "My Story" is a short history of Texas Hold'em by Crandell Addington which isn't much, and then there is the first chapter that could actually be considered part of a course in power poker. Next there is an autobiographical sketch by Brunson entitled, "My Story." (If you want a book that gives the real flavor of Brunson's "story," get a copy of According to Doyle (1984). Then we have Brunson's Introduction in which he tells us mostly about the contributors to the first Super/System. This book is more of a tribute to Doyle Brunson than it is "A Course in Power Poker." Johnny Chan writes a fairly vacuous Preface in which he lauds Brunson, but doesn't say anything about how to play. Comparing the classic Super/System from 1978 with this book is, to paraphrase Mark Twain, like comparing lightening to the lightening bug. Well, if so, I can tell you that a lot of people have been, or are going to be, VERY disappointed. "The Most Anticipated Book in the History of Poker!" exclaims a blurb on the cover.
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