In the days before there was an internet for a new generation of poker playing kids to learn the game on, Doyle Brunson wrote a book called “How I Made Over $1,000,000 Playing Poker”. Most people know this 1979 book today as “Super System” (or some variation on that title). Even three decades later, in the era of online poker, when new Texas Hold’em books seem to come out daily, Super System has held up very well. It is still considered required reading for any serious poker player. Since then Doyle has gone on to write other poker books, but none has had the enduring success of his original tome. It was just that good. The venerable old poker pro has just come out with another work. This is not the next addition to his catalogue of poker books, but an autobiography about his life called “The Godfather of Poker: The Doyle Brunson Story”.
A review of this book will be coming later, exactly how much later is up to the Amazon.com shipping department and overworked members of the U.S. Postal Service, but suffice to say that unless it was ghost written in crayon by one of his grandchildren, the life’s story of this poker pro can be nothing but interesting reading. Most of us are aware of his exploits as a poker player, but there was so much more to him than that. While we will not give away what we do know about the book, and force those who are interested to buy it, it does include stories like the entertaining tale of that includes billiards legend Minnesota Fats, an eating contest, several unfortunate turkeys, and a $2000 bet.
Texas hold’em books written by everyone from respected pros to the online poker flavor of the day are now common, but to read the story of someone who has literally done and seen as much as Doyle has will be a treat indeed.
