“One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey “The Kid” Ungar” Review
[LL] “What’s the best hand in poker?” Leroy the Lion asked, seemingly rhetorically. [RR] “A royal flush”, Roderick the Rock answered automatically. “Wait…, unless there are wild cards, then...
View Article“Johnny Moss: Poker’s Finest Champion of Champions” Review
[LL] “Stuey Ungar’s autobiography ended up as a biography, and so did Johnny Moss’s”, Leroy the Lion mentioned. [RR] “He died while it was being written, too?” Roderick the Rock wondered. [LL] “No, I...
View Article“All In: The (Almost) Entirely True History of the World Series of Poker” Review
[LL] “Bits and pieces of the history of the World Series of Poker had previously appeared in books, usually one year at a time,1 but All In: The (Almost) Entirely True History of the World Series of...
View Article“Championship Table” Review
[LL] “Championship Table is a great companion book to All In“, Leroy the Lion claimed. [RR] “How so?” Roderick the Rock encouraged. [LL] “It complements the older book’s biggest weaknesses with...
View Article“Total Poker” Review
[LL] “I would have expected a book called Total Poker to be longer than 255 pages”, Leroy the Lion complained. “But then in 2016, Card Player published The Total Poker Manual, which was almost exactly...
View Article“Moneymaker” Review
[LL] “Of course, all of you know Chris Moneymaker’s story”, Leroy the Lion began. “Many players got into poker specifically because of his 2003 WSOP Main Event run.” [RR] “Indeed, our home tournament...
View Article“Poker Plays You Can Use” Review
[SS] “Perfect timing that you joined us just now, Iggy”, greeted Stan the Stat. “We were just discussing New Year’s Resolutions, and the first section was about improving your game!” [II] “Oh, yeah....
View Article“Play Poker Like the Pros” Review
[LL] “Phil Hellmuth is famous for his braggadocio,” Leroy the Lion began, “so it won’t surprise you that the name of his book, Play Poker Like the Pros, is a major exaggeration; this is definitely a...
View Article“The Education of a Poker Player” Review
[LL] “The oldest poker book I’ve read is older than I am”, Leroy the Lion claimed. [RR] “Super System isn’t nearly as old as you are”, Roderick the Rock countered. [LL] “That was only the second...
View Article“The Noble Hustle” Review
Colson Whitehead is one of a number of authors who have been fortunate enough to have his publisher pay him1 to write about playing in the World Series of Main Event. But he’s the only Pulitzer Prize...
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