Best Selling Poker Book eva..

[Anadrol 50]

What is it?

[bigblackbuddha]

Although I don't know for sure, I would say Super System. Its so popular plus its been around so much longer than most other books.

[deacsoft]

You may be right but I'd bet Sklansky's Hold'em Poker and The Theory of Poker are at or near the top of that list.

[Gonso]

If not SS, Harrington 1 maybe? Little Green Book even? I suspect it's probably something with mass market appeal to beginners, not something more advanced or theoretical. Could be wrong but ToP doesn't seem like the book any old TV generation noob would pick.

[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

[notreallymyname]

So the amazon sales rank didn't exactly jump out at you?

To save you the trouble of doing all that again, here's a list they made earlier: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/4414/

[avatar77]

Mason did state in a thread a couple of years ago that HEFAP was the best selling Two Plus Two book but that was only for Two Plus Two and before some Two Plus Two released some of the greatest ground breaking poker books such as SSH, HOH (Vol. 1, 2 and even 3), NLHTP and PNLH.

I suspect SS 1 has to be way up there just because it has the most publicity... HOH is probably right up there too. If I had to make a bet, I would say those two books are one and two in any particular order. HEFAP is probably still in the top 5 all time.

[DeadMoneyWalking]

When I walk by the poker section of B&N I often ask "what would a newbie buy?" He is more likely to reach for the books by TV players than say, "Theory of Poker."

[GeeBeeQED]

Hey, there were a few books in the list I didn't own. I enjoyed looking them all up and am getting a few new ones on the way. Great fun!

Dave

[avatar77]

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When I walk by the poker section of B&N I often ask "what would a newbie buy?" He is more likely to reach for the books by TV players than say, "Theory of Poker."

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Maybe Theory of Poker is not the top bestseller but your statement above is incorrect. I can guarantee you that any of the following Two Plus Two books:
SSH
HOH I OR II
HEFAP

would have outsold any of the following:
any book written by: Phil Helmuth, Annie Duke, Antonio E, Barry Greenstein, or Daniel Negreanu.

SSH and HEPFAP will not likely stay in the top for too much longer b/c limit is falling way behind No Limit cash and tournaments in popularity.

I would say it is only a matter of time before Harrington's books become the best selling poker book of all time. It has established itself as the the gold standards for NL strategy.