Matt Matros\'s book
 

I haven't seen this book----"The Making of a Poker Player"----mentioned anywhere in this thread.

Am I the only one who thought this was a great book?

Re: Matt Matros\'s book
 

I liked it a lot. Very 'well-written' from an aesthetic standpoint. An easy read, and you just might learn a little bit of poker on accident.

Re: Matt Matros\'s book
 

I started a thread that had some action a while back. See below.

--Nate

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...mp;o=&vc=1

Re: Matt Matros\'s book
 

i liked it, got it for 5 bucks and there was a thread about it b/c I read it and decided to check it out

Re: Matt Matros\'s book
 

Nate, I stand corrected. Well written review; interesting thread.

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Yes..I read the book too and I really enjoyed it as well.

Interesting that he recommends Ken Warren's book for Hold'em..very interesting indeed.

Re: Matt Matros\'s book
 

Another vote in favor; excellent book. A modern version of Yardley's "Education of a Poker Player", except maybe minus half a point because Matros doesn't have any "player having a heart attack at the table" stories to share [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. Definitely pick it up, though.

Re: Matt Matros\'s book
 

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Yes..I read the book too and I really enjoyed it as well.

Interesting that he recommends Ken Warren's book for Hold'em..very interesting indeed.

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Yes - Matros is a RGP guy who apparently feels some sort of rivalry with 2+2 I guess. He makes some snide comments about 2+2 ("groupthink"), and makes some weird recommendations (Warren book).

Overall, however, the book is entertaining.

Re: Matt Matros\'s book
 

I didn't care for it. One of the problems with the book I felt is it can't decide if it's an instructional book or "story". For some reason I never like the poker "story" books, ( not Alvarez, not Holden, not McManus) so maybe it's just me.

Also, I thought he is a little close minded, he spouts he standard RGP stuff, -ARG is great, yada, yada (and where's Abdul in all this RGP talk? wasn't he the god of RGP in those days? I certainly thought so) and slams 2+2 about group think, etc. But there are thousands of posters on 2+2 and I think this is just an urban myth started because RGP has lost out/it's way. If you want to improve your poker nowadays, you come to 2+2 not RGP and it's not close. (He's not shy about putting a blurb from 2+2'er Greg Raymer on the cover, guess that kind of group think he can get behind)

One of the few poker books I\'ve thrown away
 

Just shows how tastes differ. To me, it was poorly written, boring, and unenlightening. I thought it likely that it only got published because poker is such a hot topic at the moment.

To compare it to the Yardley book is an act of sacrilege! Yardley is dated, and he wasn't a professional writer, but he was a very smart man who'd done a lot of interesting things in his life. Nothing against Matros, but by comparison he's done very little.