After PokerNews broke the news that Phil Hellmuth was set to release an autobiography in 2017 Lee Davy explains why he won’t read it and what autobiographies he would like to read instead.

Long before the Internet came along, one of the most popular ways of improving your poker game was to read a book.

Only one poker book has ever reached the New York Times Bestseller list, and it’s Play Poker Like The Pros by Phil Hellmuth. I know. I know. It’s not the best. However, I recently did lots of research into the benefits of poker books and a lot of top professionals cite this piece as very influential and their gateway into poker.

D&B Publishing is hoping that Hellmuth still has the appeal he once did after persuading him to finish his long-awaited autobiography, Poker Brat. The life story of the most successful poker player in the history of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) will be in a bookstore near you sometime in 2017; one assumes to coincide with the greatest poker festival in the world.