Most over-rated poker book of all time?

[Uncle Wimp]

[/ QUOTE ]MM should have given you an example of a great poker book before Supersystem. I think the book, Winning Poker Systems, 1974, by Norman Zadeh qualifies.

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Winning Poker Systems is my vote for most under-rated poker book of all time.

[Mason Malmuth]

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MM should have given you an example of a great poker book before Supersystem. I think the book, Winning Poker Systems, 1974, by Norman Zadeh qualifies.


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Winning Poker Systems is my vote for most under-rated poker book of all time.

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I have given an example of a great poker book before Super/System many times. That book is Hold 'em Poker by David Sklansky. Zadeh's book is also a good one.

Best wishes,
Mason

[Gonso]

SS1 isn't overrated at all, in fact besides Doyle's NL, Chip Reese's 7Stud is very good.

HoH isn't overrated because it's just that good. So is Theory of Poker, SSHE, Zee's hi/lo book, and 7CSFAP.

Then there are other books we all know suck, like Hellmuth's or Cloutiers, so they're not really overrated.

Then there's the love/hate category: NLHETAP, Ace on the River, and Mathematics of Poker are either awful or great depending on who you ask.

I'm going to go with Roy West's 7 Card Stud book. It's not bad, but pretty irrelevant compared to 7CSFAP. Another contender is Kill Phil, and maybe even Caro's Book of Tells (a decent and helpful book, sure, but very flawed and definitely put on a pedestal by many players).