My book is, I hope, different from all the others. Most poker strategy books inundate their readers with probability charts, lists of hand rankings, and boring, economics textbook-style prose as a means of teaching the game. The idea behind my book, and indeed this web site, is to teach poker through a narrative of real situations that I have actually experienced over the course of my poker career. Sure, I also teach the mathematics of the game, but I do it in the proper context. I don’t spew out a bunch of charts and leave the interpretation to the reader.

There is enough information in The Making of a Poker Player to be useful for all players, from expert to total novice. It is available for purchase right here online. And fear not, the book excerpts are the only sections of this site that have been taken from the book. The rest of mattmatros.com is brand new food for thought. Enjoy!