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Super/System is one of the most famous and seminal books about how to play poker
Poker

Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed....
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uper/System was primarily written by Doyle Brunson
Doyle Brunson

Doyle F. Brunson is an iconic American professional poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years. He is the first two-time World Series of Poker main event champion to win consecutively, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of several highly influential books on poker....
 who, at the time of publication in 1979 by Cardoza Publishing(ISBN 1-58042-081-8), had won the main event of the World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker is the "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world". It is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada....
 in 1976 and 1977. The book was one of the first comprehensive books on strategies for various poker games.






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Super/System is one of the most famous and seminal books about how to play poker
Poker

Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed....
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History and title

Super/System was primarily written by Doyle Brunson
Doyle Brunson

Doyle F. Brunson is an iconic American professional poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years. He is the first two-time World Series of Poker main event champion to win consecutively, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of several highly influential books on poker....
 who, at the time of publication in 1979 by Cardoza Publishing(ISBN 1-58042-081-8), had won the main event of the World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker is the "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world". It is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada....
 in 1976 and 1977. The book was one of the first comprehensive books on strategies for various poker games. Many notable poker players and tournament champions contributed sections.

The title of the book was originally How I Made Over $1,000,000 Playing Poker. The title is also sometimes written as Super System, without a slash; Doyle Brunson's Super System; or Super/System: A Course in Power Poker.

Contents

The book begins with a biographical sketch of Doyle Brunson and then quickly discusses general poker strategy. General strategy includes controlling emotion, watching competitors play, reasoning out play, and other similar tips that benefit all forms of poker play.

The sections of the book dedicated to strategy were divided as follows:
  • Draw poker written by Mike Caro
    Mike Caro

    Mike Caro is a professional poker player, pioneer poker theorist, and author of poker books....
    . Amongst other things, Caro writes in detail about tells
    Tell (poker)

    A tell in poker is a subtle but detectable change in a player's behavior or demeanor that gives clues to that player's assessment of his hand. A player gains an advantage if he observes and understands the meaning of another player's tell, particularly if the tell is unconscious and reliable....
    , how to gain information about an opponent's hand based on how they act. He is regarded as an expert on poker psychology and behavior and would later go on to write his own seminal book on tells.
  • Seven-card stud
    Seven-card stud

    Seven-card stud is a List of poker variants of stud poker. Until the recent increase in popularity of Texas hold 'em, seven-card stud was the most popular poker variant in home games across the United States, and in casinos in the eastern part of the country....
     written by Chip Reese
    Chip Reese

    David Edward Reese , more commonly known as Chip Reese, was an United States professional poker player and gambler from Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, Ohio....
  • Lowball
    Lowball (poker)

    Some forms of poker, often called lowball, sometimes called low poker, reward poor poker hands . There are four common variations on this idea, differing in whether aces are treated as high cards or low cards, and whether or not Rank of hands #Straights and Rank of hands #Flushes are used....
     written by Joey Hawthorne
    Joey Hawthorne

    Joey "Howard Hughes" Hawthorne was a professional poker player from California. Hawthore contributed the section on lowball poker to Doyle Brunson's Super/System,...
     and Doyle Brunson
    Doyle Brunson

    Doyle F. Brunson is an iconic American professional poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years. He is the first two-time World Series of Poker main event champion to win consecutively, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of several highly influential books on poker....
  • Seven-card stud high-low split (with no qualifier for low) by David Sklansky
    David Sklansky

    David Sklansky is a professional poker player and author.Sklansky grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he graduated from Teaneck High School in 1966....
  • Limit Texas hold 'em
    Texas hold 'em

    Texas hold 'em is the most popular poker game in the casinos and poker card rooms across North America and Europe, as well as online poker. According to Doyle Brunson and Johnny Moss, it was originally considered a variation of seven card stud, and was called "Texas hold 'em seven card stud" back in the 1920's....
     by Bobby Baldwin
    Bobby Baldwin

    Bobby Baldwin is a professional poker player and casino executive.When Baldwin won the 1978 World Series of Poker main event he became the youngest winner in its history, to be superseded by Stu Ungar in 1980 and then Phil Hellmuth in 1989 and Peter Eastgate in 2008....
  • No-limit Texas hold 'em by Doyle Brunson
    Doyle Brunson

    Doyle F. Brunson is an iconic American professional poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years. He is the first two-time World Series of Poker main event champion to win consecutively, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of several highly influential books on poker....


Finally, there is a comprehensive list of probability and statistics calculated by Mike Caro
Mike Caro

Mike Caro is a professional poker player, pioneer poker theorist, and author of poker books....
. In addition to raw numbers, many scenarios are investigated and common questions are answered.

Influence

Many of today's top poker players, young and old, swear by Super/System. Although nearly 30 years have passed since the original publication, it still contains relevant strategies and statistics. Brunson himself believes that because the book has been so influential, it probably cost him more money than he was paid for writing it.

Many of the poker variants are played differently today, and there are many new variants that are not covered in Super/System, so the book has been superseded in some areas. A sequel titled Super System 2 was published in October 2004 (ISBN 1-58042-136-9).

The second book is broken up into several sections, each covering a different variant of poker, and written by experts on those games. Contributors include: Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu is a Canadian professional poker player with four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour Championship titles....
; Lyle Berman
Lyle Berman

Lyle Berman is a professional poker player and business executive....
, founder of the World Poker Tour
World Poker Tour

The World Poker Tour is a series of international poker tournaments featuring most of the world's professional players. It was started in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who now serves as CEO of WPT Enterprises , the firm that controls the World Poker Tour....
; Bobby Baldwin
Bobby Baldwin

Bobby Baldwin is a professional poker player and casino executive.When Baldwin won the 1978 World Series of Poker main event he became the youngest winner in its history, to be superseded by Stu Ungar in 1980 and then Phil Hellmuth in 1989 and Peter Eastgate in 2008....
; Johnny Chan
Johnny Chan (poker player)

Johnny Chan , born in Guangzhou , People's Republic of China in 1957, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a professional poker player....
; Mike Caro
Mike Caro

Mike Caro is a professional poker player, pioneer poker theorist, and author of poker books....
; Jennifer Harman
Jennifer Harman

Jennifer C. Harman-Traniello is an United States professional poker player....
; Todd Brunson
Todd Brunson

Todd Brunson is an United States professional poker player and the son of poker player Doyle Brunson.Although Brunson's father Doyle was a poker player, Brunson did not learn the game when he was young....
; Steve Zolotow
Steve Zolotow

Steve Zolotow is an United States professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada. He was one of the regulars at the famed Mayfair Club.Zolotow has been on the poker circuit since 1988, when he finished in 5th place in that year's World Series of Poker $2500 Pot Limit Omaha hold 'em tournament....
; and Crandell Addington
Crandell Addington

Crandell Addington is an entrepreneur and poker player who is best known as one of the founders of the World Series of Poker.Addington, known as "Dandy" because he was always well-dressed in a suit, During the 1960s he played the poker circuit in Texas leading him in 1969, to win the Texas Gamblers Convention in Reno, Nevada; it was there...
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