Big Deal
One Year as a Professional Poker Player
$65.18
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
13 November 2002
Summary
BIG DEAL is the mesmerising story of a year spent by bestselling 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 gladiatoria…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349115191 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349115192 |
| Author: | Anthony Holden |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 4th |
| Release Date: | 13 November 2002 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 25mm |
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A very good book and an important addition to the literature of gambling
A very good book and an important addition to the literature of gambling - David Mamet
A remarkable odyssey - part Damon Runyon, part Dostoevsky - VANITY FAIRThe best book about poker I’ve ever read - Walter MatthauBIG DEAL is the classic book on big stakes poker. Praised from high and low, all players love this book, and all those wannabes, dreaming of raking in that monster pot, will eat it up - IRISH TIMESAbout The Author
Anthony Holden
Biographer Anthony Holden was an award-winning newspaper columnist and editor before becoming a full-time writer and broadcaster. He is also an admired translator of works from the classics to opera for Jonathan Miller at the English National Opera.
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