The Literary Giants ? The Best Writers in the Poker Genre
The game of poker has been around for a few hundred years, and writing about the game has been active for just about as long. R. F. Foster first penned the rules of the game in his 1837 treatise Foster?s Complete Hoyle, noting that the game had similarities to the Persian game as nas. From…
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The game of poker has been around for a few hundred years, and writing about the game has been active for just about as long. R. F. Foster first penned the rules of the game in his 1837 treatise Foster?s Complete Hoyle, noting that the game had similarities to the Persian game as nas. From there, writing about the game became almost as fun a pursuit as playing the game itself! Some have done it very well over the past century and a half, however. In this essay, we?re going to look back at the last 40 years of poker writing, which seems appropriate as it is the time frame that seems to coincide with many people?s knowledge of the game. Thus, we?re not going to hear from Sir Edmund Hoyle (where ?according to Hoyle? comes from) or Herbert O. Yardley (although his memory is more than deserving). We?re also going to leave out those who have written strategy tomes, thus there won?t be any mention of Doyle Brunson, Mike Caro, or David Sklansky.
What follows is those who have made a sizeable impact on the poker writing community. Anyone who says they don?t know who these men are has ...
