[BlueSmurf]

Hi guys

From the bureau of Weird Statistics and Spurious Correlations, I bring you a list of poker books ordered by the number of comments on Amazon. The premise is that the more a book sells, the more people leave comments about it on Amazon (and because I had no idea where to find the actual sales data!). I give you this list for your viewing pleasure and make no claims as to its validity as a proxy for ultimate sales. Intuitively, I'd say it looks pretty accurate.

Harrington 1: 214
Hellmuth PPLP: 160
Lee Jones WLLH: 132
McManus 5th street: 122
Sklansky TOP: 109
Gordon LGB: 106
SuperSystem 1: 95
Greenstein Ace: 84
Miller SSHE: 75
Sklansky HPFAP: 75
Harrington 2: 70
Caro Tells: 70
SuperSystem 2: 64
"The Professor ..." : 53
Harrington 3: 51
Sklansky/Miller NL-TP: 46
Sklansky HEP: 43
Hellmuth FBI: 41
Dalla's Ungar: 39
Kill Phil: 39
Yao's Weighing Odds: 34
Sklansky TPFAP: 31
Snyder Formula: 31
Chen Mathematics: 30
Gordon Real Deal: 28
Zen & the art of P.: 27
Lindgren's DVD: 27
Book of bluffs: 26
Schoonmaker Psych.: 25
Poker for Dummies: 25
Cloutier Champ. NL&PL: 24
Ciaffone Middle limit: 24
Flynn/Mehta PNL: 23
Ciaffone & Reuben: 22
Sklansky 7CSFAP: 17

I hope you can read the shorthand. I should say that statistics such as these favour controversial books. Greenstein's book is probably placed too high, because there's some debate as to what it is about and how good it is [sic]. If you wonder about Hellmuth's "Play Poker Like the Pros", it is not only controversial (because of its ... ummm ... interesting ... LHE section), its timing was superb, because in Europe it came out just when WPT hit our TV-screens.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Cheers,

Smurf