Title	My 50 Most Memorable Hands
Author	Doyle Brunson
Year	2007
Skill Level	any
Pros	Half a century of diverse, entertaining, poker stories with a wide cast of characters. Clear hand diagrams with a touch of red for the hearts and diamonds.
Cons	Hands are not presented in any particular order.1 The hands are supposedly in the order in which Brunson remembered them, but either chronological or topical order would have improved the book's organization. Some hands lack details and the book is fairly short. Chapter titles appear in Table of Contents but not in the text, where the hands are simply numbered.
Rating	3.5

Note: chapter names are in the Table of Contents but not in the text, which just has "Memorable Hand #X".

Doyle Brunson had already had one of the longest and most successful poker careers ever by the time he wrote My 50 Most Memorable Hands in 2007, so the biggest challenge he faced wasn't trying to find enough hands to talk about but the opposite, reducing his stories down to just 50 (less than one per year). The 168 sparse pages fly by so fast, you might wish he'd included another 50 hands.

Highlights of the book (or lowlights depending on your perspective) include cheating, robbery, and murder (and two other deaths at the table), but great poker also features prominently, with high-stakes cash games and ten stories from the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Read this book purely for entertainment purposes. If you happen to learn a little poker strategy along the way, consider it a bonus. The frontier days of poker will never return, so enjoy the reminiscences of a legend who has no shortage of short and tall tales.

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