I noticed how the poker world has changed--My trip to the bookstore

[Zetack]

Ok, this isn't a news flash to anyone or anything, but my, how things have changed!

So Saturday after dinner with my Fiance, we had about an hour to kill before Star Wars started and I remembered that I wanted Harrington on Hold'em and I had a Barnes and Nobles gift card in my wallet so we wandered over to Barnes & Nobles.

They have a whole poker section!!! I remember two years ago when I decided I wanted to learn something about poker so I would enjoy the WPT more I went to B&N and it took me about fifteen minutes to find the poker books at all. (Some might say that I'm still at the level I was at just after reading the copy of Poker for Dummies I bought that day...)

Pretty cool.

I did get annoyed when I had trouble spotting HOH. It turns out they did have one solitary copy, although not shelved in any way that would let somebody actually find it without looking at the spine of everydamn book in the poker section (Hint for anybody else looking--its blue (or is that some shade of purple?)).


Looking at that plethora of books though, I guess I've missed the oportunity to write a poker book as come and gone (not to mention that it would probably be expensive to defend myself after I plagarized the books of people who actually know something about poker...)

I wonder if I'll be just as amazed two years from now at where poker has gone by then...


--Zetack

[Prelude008]

Agreed,

I remember a few years ago the B&M casino gift shops didn't even have books. I had to order via phone/mail from a book shop in Vegas. Now, when I go to the casinos (LA) the gift shops have almost all of the books displayed and they will even "special order" the ones you want. This comes in handy when you can use your "players points" to get them. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[stankphish]

I take the 2+2 books off the display and replace them with Phil Hellmuths book. I live in a small Alaskan town and SSH on display is -EV.

[Prelude008]

-EV yes...but don't forget you posted that in a 2+2 forum [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

[poker-penguin]

What he means is that he buys all the 2+2 books to keep them out of the fishie's hands.

[stankphish]

Exactly

[Prelude008]

my bad...good work [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] Any B&M's in Alaska?

[stankphish]

Nope just a small home game.

[Zetack]

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What he means is that he buys all the 2+2 books to keep them out of the fishie's hands.

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I can imagine the bookstore now --order more 2+2 books--they sell out as fast as we get them in!!!


--Zetack