Barry: most poker books are written by losers

[daveT]

Go to borders and look at the books. I wouldn't spend money on them for my fireplace.

[7n7]

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Poker is like sex, you can't learn it from books alone.

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This is one of the worst analogies I've ever read.

If given the choice, I'd take just about any 2+2 book, SS2, some of Ciaffone's stuff, etc., over Ace on the River. But I do own AoTR and don't regret the purchase.

But then again, I guess I just named off books that were written by player/winners which I assume weren't the books he was talking about.

[CasinoR7]

I said it jokingly, I agree with you completely.

[7n7]

Man, I was hopin' that was a joke. You got me. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[sigurrostyp]

He is essentially correct. The vast majority of poker books on the market are written by players who are not that successful

[Mcbrag]

I think a few author's books were so bad (Hellmuth, Fischman, Cloutier) that they did it on purpose. They were trying to provide misinformation to the poker playing public in order to make the average player even easier to beat.

[Troll_Inc]

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I think it is a stretch to call "Ace on the River" a strategy book.

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I think it is a stretch to call "Ace on the River" a strategy book.

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I think it is a stretch to call "Ace on the River" a strategy book.

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Also, are poker books really written with the expressed purpose of someone being able to read it and then step into a high stakes poker game?

To write such a book would be ultra-retarded since the market is so tiny. And, according to Greenstein high stakes poker players don't read.

Face it people, Greenstein is just trolling when he says these things.

[Starfish]

I think that Barry has a very good game selection. That's one of the most important skills indeed.

[Starfish]

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I think he's mostly right. But, I don't think it's at all a slight at Two Plus Two Publishing. 2+2 books make up a small % of the poker books on the market.

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Come on. It's all about 2+2. You should defend about it somehow, imo.

[CasinoR7]

Or they wanted to make an extra income from books, using their fame to sell them, without giving away their secrets. Phil Helmuth and T.J. Cloutier are great players, it is fishy that their books are useless.