Review of Super System 2 by Doyle Brunson - The Bible of Poker
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Super System 2 Review |
Title: Super System 2 – A course in power poker and Super System – a course in power poker Author: Doyle Brunson Facts: Super System 2 contains 646 pages of text while the first edition had 519 text pages and about 50 pages of preface, supplement and glossary. Cardoza publishing publishes the books. About the authors: Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson, the good father of poker. Brunson is one of the top players now and has been for the last decades. He has been around for so long that he actually has the hand 10,2 named after him. The reason is that he won the No Limit Hold 'Em event at the World Series of Poker two years in a row with them! He was the first player to reach 1 million dollars playing in tournaments. He has won the world poker tour legends, two World Series of poker and several bracelets at the WSOP. This is a master and he keeps playing strong poker. He finished second in the WPT battle among the poker book authors. Review: The super system is often referred to as the bible of poker. The first super system has been around for almost 30 years. And when you ask people about the best book about poker the super system books always come up, they are indeed great books. A lot of people think that the second one is just an update of the first one, but that’s not true. Some parts like the No-limit chapter is still pretty much the same but a lot of the other pieces have been changed around and new types of poker have entered and some other poker games that is not that common anymore has been left out. So there is nothing wrong about getting them both and read them. If you only want one of them we suggest you go for the super system II. It contains more up to date games. But if you are interested in games like draw poker you need to go to the first edition because they left it out in the second one. Brunson writes only parts of the super systems books. Top theorists and players, like Mike Caro and Bobby Baldwin (after his great player career he became the president at the Bellagio and CEO of the Mirage, but still plays some poker), write the other chapters. Those two makes contributions to both editions. Caros chapter in the second edition we believe is a masterpiece. There are 43 tips from Mike Caros University. They are simple and they are great! In the first edition David Sklansky writes about high-low split. In the second edition Daniel Negreanu writes about triple draw and Jennifer Hartman about limit hold'em. Brunson has an amazing couple of co writers in his books and that’s what makes them so good! Daniel Negreanu is probably the best poker tournament player for the moment and his last couple of years on the world poker tour have been amazing. The book gives you the basics about poker in general, but also specific knowledge about different games. Therefore this is a beginner’s book that can be studied also by the top pros. Every poker player will be able to learn something from these books. But be careful when you decide to follow the advices about how to play no-limit. Because Brunson is a very aggressive player and nowadays when you play online poker that play won’t always work. Also a lot of players have read the book and adopted the advices in it, so sometimes you need to change your game a bit to avoid getting into trouble. In super system 2 there is a chapter about online poker. It’s seems to mostly promote Brunsons own poker room. But it also has an important lesson to be learned before getting too much into the later chapters fancy play. The Super Systems weakest spot is the tournament chapters. There are small pieces about playing the largest tournaments, but not enough. If there are going to be a super system 3 we would suggest putting a bigger effort into the tournament sections. And until then the readers need to look elsewhere to find specific strategies and tips about different types of tournaments. Super System can be a good starting book when you do not know what type of game you want to play. You read the book start playing your type of game and then you go looking for other books more specialised in that specific game. Read on to review some of the industry's other best poker books. |
