Entertaining pokerbooks I should read

[AFCBeer]

Perhaps not entertaining but a very interesting read is "Swimming with the Devilfish" by Des Wilson.

People in the US maybe unaware of this book since it is about the UK poker scene but I'm sure if people want a change of scenery then they will enjoy this book.

A lot of the book is focussed on Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot but there are some good stories of the underground poker games that were played in the UK before it was introduced to Casinos.

[Soundwave]

Third vote for Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People, top stuff.

Also, no one has mentioned Antony Holden's first poker book Big Deal?? One of the best non-strategy poker books out there IMHO, about a year spent as a professional player and playing the WSOP, with plenty of anecdotes about the players. It's a few years old but is fascinating, it's what got me into poker in the first place. He's also got a new one out (called, imaginatively enough, A Bigger Deal) - I haven't read that one yet, I'm sure it's also excellent though.

[slimbob]

Thanks guys for the recommendations!

I already read big deal and shut up and deal.

Ordered: Swimming with the devilfish, the biggest game in town, amarillo slim in a world full of fat people and "the professor, the banker and the suicide king.

To appease my bad conscience i bought the new NL book...

[killerfizh]

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And "Professor, Banker" left me with two things stuck in my mind. First, that Jen Harmon is totally an ass-kickin', world class poker player. She's much more the hero of the story than Howard or Doyle. Second, I wish more billionairs were both poker players and degenerate gamblers. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

"That's it. I'm quitting poker forever."

"Sorry to hear that, Andy. See you in two weeks."

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It's a very good book. A+. In my opinion Ted Forrest is the hero in the book tho. Lots of great storys..

[Chomp]

"Big Deal" by Anthony Holden is an entertaining read about his attempt to make it as a pro in Vegas, I think in the 80's. It's one of those books you'll be through in 3 days it's such fun.

[berya]

Shut up and deal was the fastest poker book I ever read probably because I could relate so much to what he was writing.

[Gelford]

Yeah ... Shut up and deal ... a good book [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[HugoM]

I second the shout outs for Shut up and Deal - a really really good book; a similar novel that is also very evocative of the poker milieu is King of a Small World by Rick Bennett.

Another good novel is Broke by Brandon Adams who maybe posts on 2+2 sometimes? I read some recent blogs by him somewhere talking about the big cash games at the bellagio that were pretty interesting.

Finally a book that is sort of similar to Aces and Kings is Gambling Wizards by Richard W. Munchkin which contains interviews with various professional gamblers inc Chip Reese, Doyle Brunson, Mike Svobodny and Billy Walters to name a few

[Adman]

Ken Warren teaches Texas hold 'em.

[pucks32]

Positively Fifth Street