Big Deal
One Year in the Life of a Professional Poker Player
Recommended by Victoria Coren Mitchell, and 1 others. See all reviewsThe story of a year spent by biographer Anthony Holden in the tough world of the professional poker player. He spent days and nights in the poker paradise of Las Vegas, in Malta and Morocco, even shipboard, mingling with the legendary greats, sharpening his game, perfecting his repartee, and learning a great deal about himself in the process. Poker, Holden would insist, is not gambling. Like chess it is a paradigm of life at its most intense, a gladiatorial contest that brings out the best as well as the worst in people. Its heroes, its eccentrics and is comedians stalk the pages of this... more
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Victoria Coren Mitchell Tony’s book is an experiment. He goes out to try to spend a year as a professional poker player. (Source)
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