The one and only Doyle Brunson is perhaps the most universally known of all poker players. Even amongst non poker players, the name Doyle Brunson is still known and that speaks volumes about a man that is more than just a poker player, he is also an icon. Brunson is a true living poker legend and that legend began back in 1976 when he captured his first WSOP world title at the famous Binions Horseshoe Casino.

But what established Brunson in the public eye was a combination of two further factors. The first being his second world title success the following year in 1977 when he strangely won the title again while holding the same hand (10-2) and making a full house with it on both final hands in 1976 and 1977.

But I think that another hugely contributing factor towards the fame that Brunson enjoys now was the launch in 1978 of the book that went onto achieve legendary status amongst poker books.

That book was called Supersystem or as many people are unaware, How I made over $1,000,000 playing poker which was its original title before it actually became known as Supersystem. This was a hugely adventurous book to attempt to compile at the time, in fact the sheer size of the book to anyone who has ever seen it is still very impressive even now…..a full thirty years later.

But for me, the most distinguishing features of the book was the sheer ground breaking knowledge that was incorporated into Brunson’s section on no limit Texas Holdem and the fact that he had somehow managed to gather five of the top poker minds in the world to help him compile the book.

Non other than the then reigning world champion Bobby Baldwin, David “Chip” Reese who went onto to become arguably the greatest poker player who ever lived, David Sklansky who is perhaps the foremost poker theorist in the world, Mike Caro and Joey Hawthorne.

Even the legendary Amarillo Slim wrote the preface for the book so Supersystem was literally compiled by the who’s who of the poker world at that time. But it was the sheer power of the information that Brunson packed into his section on no limit hold’em that had the entire poker world talking for years to follow.

Brunson’s associates were also writing excellent sections on Draw Poker, Seven Card Stud, Lowball, High Low Split and Limit Hold’em in the book. However as the years have progressed, much of the information in many of those sections is now out of date.

For instance the blind structure in the limit games has changed and the split games now use a qualifier for low and Draw poker is rarely played these days.

But despite that, the quality of the information inside this one poker book has led to various people quoting all sorts of superlatives with regards the book. Words like “great”, “ground breaking”, “legendary”, “unique” and “the poker bible” have been used frequently and in this particular case were well deserved. Look out for part two of this multi-part series.

Carl “The Dean” Sampson

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