But without a shadow of a doubt, the overwhelming weight of support for Supersystem has come because of what Doyle wrote about his favourite form of poker….No Limit Texas Hold em poker. In fact the term “The Cadillac of Poker” has also gone along way towards the book achieving cult status as this is now perhaps the most famous quote in poker.

When Brunson referred to no limit hold’em as being the Cadillac of Poker then what he actually meant was that it was this form of the game that provided the ultimate test of a player’s ability. This statement too is a little out of date as games like Pot Limit Omaha were not overly popular then and few players realised at the time just how phenomenally complex and difficult that form of poker is.

But for the very first time, students of poker could now start to envisage just how a really great player approached the game and Brunson is truly a great player even now despite his advancing years. But there are still large parts of Supersystem that are mainly misunderstood even now by many players.

So much so that noted poker theorist Mike Caro actually wrote a guide to the book some years later to try and put into word form more clearly the strategies and thought patterns that lay behind Brunson’s thinking. It is common knowledge that much of what makes a great poker player is very difficult to teach.

Much of what separates people like Brunson from mere ordinary poker playing mortals is difficult to put into words. Brunson bases many of his plays on what he is actually feeling at the time and he has honed those instincts over many years at the tables.

But it is considered insufficient from the view of the reader to be told that the reason why the author made a certain play was because he felt that it was the right thing to do. I do not necessarily agree with this rationale as in my mind, this clearly indicates what stage one has to reach in order to be playing the game at the highest level possible.

In my mind, anyone who has only read this book once or twice simply cannot properly comprehend just what Doyle is really trying to say. I first purchased this book many years ago and I have read the section on No Limit Hold’em more times than I can care to remember. But yet even now, I still pick certain things up about the potential inner workings of Doyle’s mind at the table that I had not picked up previously.

The number of nuances and subtleties in that book are almost endless and for novice poker players whose games are expanding at a very rapid rate (or at least they should be if they are working hard enough) then it is impossible for anyone at that low level to even come close to being able to fully comprehend what Doyle is really saying in that book. Look out for part three shortly.

Carl “The Dean” Sampson

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