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Message: [QUOTE="LarkMarlow, post: 1309663, member: 57665"] [COLOR=black][/COLOR][COLOR=black][/COLOR] [COLOR=black] [/COLOR] [COLOR=black]So far I've read "White Knight Black Night" and I'm in the middle of "Texas Poker Wisdom". [/COLOR] [COLOR=black] [/COLOR] [COLOR=black]While I absolutely love Susie Isaacs and was fascinated by her novel (which sort of felt to me like a fictionalized autobiography), I wanted to read more about the main character’s actual experiences at the table. Instead, all there is that through playing and writing about poker she was able to come into her own and claim her independence. [/COLOR] [COLOR=black] [/COLOR] [COLOR=black]In contrast, “Texas Poker Wisdom” fills that void and much more. While reading this book I feel like I’m on the road and at the table with the likes of Brunson, Slim and Strauss just to name a few. Not only that, but Hughes offers an historical perspective I had neither considered nor read about before, such as [/COLOR] [COLOR=black] [/COLOR] “In the late 1950s and the early 1960s, Maverick was a hit television series starring James Garner. He was a wise-cracking, comedic, and cowardly poker player who traveled all around the Old West. This TV series spawned a mini-boom in poker much like Rounders created a real boom in poker in the 1990s. Buddy and Matt realized it was like a weekly commercial for the poker games they ran. All the college crowd gave it a go at trying to be like Maverick, a devout anti-hero. Buddy and Matt often sang the theme song: Who is the tall dark stranger there? Maverick is his name. Riding the trail to who-knows-where. Luck is his companion. Gamblin' is his game.....” This is the kind of book I never want to end. Thanks, AG![COLOR=black][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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