Worst Poker Book Written

What do you think is the worst poker book written? It seems, with the Poker boom in 2003 a lot of books have been written. Some of them written just to capitalize on the poker crazy. I remember looking through Doyle Brunson's on on-line poker at the local bookstore a few years ago,Online Poker: Your Guide to Playing Online Poker Safely & Winning Money. It is one of the worst pokers I have seen. The reveiws on Amazon tell the story.

Ha - that is the same book I was going to say too. It is so elementary and of course out of date now.

lol i read that book,

got it from my local libray.

I bought that damn book a couple of years ago... boy, was I disappointed...

i usally check for any reivew on books b4 i buy them. No point in wastin money on a book on stuff i allready know.

If there's no review then ill jus look for a e-book.

Enjoying Salads by Greg Raymer

Bad Books

Poker the Real Deal (Black Book)
Phil Gordon

After I read it.
Felt like I came out of a Bad Movie and said what the heck was that about.
Shook my head and walked away.


EMPTY FEELING .........

Phil Helmuth's hands down. The best part of it is the filler pages where he explains the rules and most basic of basics of every kind of poker game there is.

Negreneu's book is pretty bad too. He put his name on it to sell it, and 80% of it is written by other people. The section on Deceptive Play, by David Williams, is just a bunch of unrelated anecdotes on different deceptive plays he made. Evidently nobody told Williams that the point of writing a book is supposed to be to make generalizations and conclusions based on your experience. Glad the library was the one who wasted their money on that one.

I have heard some bad things about is Power Hold'em book. He was always mentioning it on his written and video blogs. It took a long time for it to come out. Then, it turns out, he wrote less than half the book. This is the same way Brunson wrote his Super System books.

That's the first and only and last book on poker I've ever read. I didn't learn a thing and the only bright spot was that it was a gift and i didn't loose any money on it LOL. Like I said I havnt read any other books.

What No One Else is Saying About Online Poker

I've never seen such long paragraphs.

The mammoth book of poker comes to mind.
Its probably not the worst poker book ever written but i hated it with a fire vengence .
Hate the writing style, the bleached ink, the badly expalained examples,the simply wrong math and the fact that the authour "explains" in the intro that poker is 99% luck and 1% skill with out ever explaining what luck is.
+ It isnt even written by a poker player but a bridge player :S

It wasn't a terrible book, but it was quite a disappointment after reading his first one.

I'm talking about Phil Gordon's Little Blue Book. His Little Green Book was awesome, but the Little Blue Book was more about him trying to be clever and making fun of his opponents. He should stick to teaching poker and stop with the wanna-be comedian stuff.

This is the first poker book I bought. I follow it very carefully when I play.
I'm on a 19 month losing streak.

Internet Poker for Dummies.

Actually, wasnt that bad... specially the ideas on game theory...

For me, it was Vorhaus' "Killer Poker Online". When I read his rambling opinions on the meaning of online poker ID's, I knew it was gonna suck. I hear his other books are good, though.

Actually, this. It was utterly dreadful and repetitive.

Jerry Yang: The Man, The Myth, The Legend

Don't know of a truly *bad* one, but I was disappointed in Negraneau's. One that I wish every poker player would read is Barry Greenstein's Ace on the River. Has pretty much 0 to do with how to play, but lots to do with how to act. I have pretty much any poker book written, but the one(s) I refer to before a big tournament are The Zen/Tao books. (Despite disagreeing with it *theologically* )

Another vote for Helmuths book (as the worst) although Esfandiari's cash game book I thought was pretty bad as well.

I can't read

Never bought or read a poker book so can't comment on which is best or visa versa. I would hate to think I spent good money on a book that wasn't any good. Thanks for the information on poker books.

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You know...now that I think about it, I can't think of a single thing off the top of my head that *any* of these books actually taught me. I'm sure I *must've* learned something, right? I just can't think of it. Maybe it's because I'd already been playing for 40 years before I ever read one.

Wait...I just thought of one. And, sadly, PH is involved. Read em' and Reap. But that has nothing to do with strategy, just tells.

Beyond Tells by James McKenna
Texas Hold’em On the Net by David Bradshaw
Texas Hold’em Odds by Catalin Barboianu
What No One Else is Saying about Online Poker by Carl Varrone
The Mathematics of Poker by William Chen and Jerrod Ankenman

Holdem Poker for Advanced Players I think is the worst book written that I read it. I wonder if Sklansky and Malmuth weren't drunk while they wrote that book.

Theory of Poker. I think a lot of it contains useless informations and is a big waste of time to read it. It's also very difficult to read. I read many books but TOP it's impossible to read. It's so boring and so bad written. I only read a few chapters from TOP but I feel that I don't really need to read it b/c there are a lot of informations that can't be put in practice. The informations that are useful from that book can be found on other books that are better written. What I find surprising is that NLHTP, another Sklansky book, isn't that difficult to read as TOP. A lot of informations from NLHTP are also useless informations (many math that you don't need it), but it's more easier to read than TOP.

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Yep. That book works great for insomnia.

Thank you. I thought I was the only one who remembered that.

ZOMG ^^^ /thread

That is by far the worst thing ever written. It makes me want to support book burning! Anyone that disagrees either hasn't read it (and shouldn't bother) and/or hasn't seen AG's in depth review. I'm one of the unlucky ones that did read it and I wanted to gouge my eyes out!!!

I picked up Phil Hellmuth's Texas Hold'em a while ago and it has got to be the worst one I have read. I have not read that many, so not a fair sample set to really critique, but it is an awful read. Just chapter after chapter of him talking about how great he is!

I even requested a copy AFTER he was done giving out the original promised amount He was a very nice guy, but yeah, the book was.... special.

Well I'd have to strongly disagree with this one (how can I disagree?... cuz really it's just your opinion)... but trust me.. there are many poker books that are farfar worse than this one.
I have D's book (all of them actually) and sure I was disappointed with this one but it is far from being the 'worst'. Daniel's section on SmallBall is actually quite good but the majority of the rest of the book is a waste of paper. I wish he'd even written more hand histories of his play, along with his thought processes throughout.

You want to see a far worse book??... Check out Amarillo Slim's Book. It is pure rubbish (got it for 25cents at a garage sale).

Agreed... Phil's books are down near the bottom of the list for sure (but trust me.. there are worse ones out there,lol).
I lent out my Helmuth books (I never lend out poker books, lol) and I haven't gotten them back now for over a year.... but am not disappointed one bit. I guess I lent them to a 'jackal'....

"Neocheating - the Unbeatable Weapon". HUGE load of crap. Maybe 2 useful paragraphs about spotting some already well-known shuffle cheat methods.

Also Phil Hellmuth's random bits in Joe Navarro's book on tells. It was obvious filler and an attempt to justify putting his name on the cover. Yes Phil, we all know how great you are. Enough already!

I actually liked Power Hold Em by Negreanu. *shrug*

Maybe cause I've only read that and Super/System, which I will say I was very disappointed in.

Maybe I liked Negreanu's book cause I found the Small Ball chapter to be very helpful.

Either way, definitely going to be picking up some Harrington on Hold Em books for sure!