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08-19-2020 , 02:31 PM

Kevmath

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When you search for Winning Poker, which turned into the Theory of Poker, Roger Dionne was listed as a co-author with David Sklansky.

In ToP, Dionne's name disappeared, so was curious if there's more about Dionne, who wrote a series of articles on poker, backgammon, video games and more.

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10-21-2020 , 02:46 PM

middlebridge

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I had a copy of that book along with other early books by David and Mason. IIRC Dionne was a technical writer that helped David in some way. Winning Poker had the same concepts as TOP but wasn't written as well.

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10-26-2020 , 07:18 PM

Foucault

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In our recent interview DS told the origin story of this book, and IIRC he addressed this: https://www.thinkingpoker.net/2020/0...avid-sklansky/

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11-01-2020 , 08:02 AM

Al Mirpuri

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Originally Posted by Foucault

In our recent interview DS told the origin story of this book, and IIRC he addressed this: https://www.thinkingpoker.net/2020/0...avid-sklansky/

Very interesting podcast. The story of the book is recounted but no reference is made to Dionne. But there is no real mystery. DS 'strong-armed' the publishers and they probably insisted on a co-credit for Dionne who probably did some grunt work with editing etc.

DS comes out very well in the podcast. I think I have not always encountered the best DS on this site.

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