Big deal : a year as a professional poker player / Anthony Holden

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Viking Press, c1990Description: ix, 306 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 670828475
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GV 1250.2 .H65 1990
Contents:
1 Living Right; 2 The Big One; 3 Shut Up and Deal; 4 Read 'Em and Weep; 5 On Tilt; 6 The Hall of Fame; 7 Enter the Shrink; 8 Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl; 9 An Ear Full of Cider; 10 Run Out of Town; 11 Cruising for a Bruising; 12 The End of the Road
Summary: In 1988, best-selling biographer Anthony Holden spent one year living the life of a professional poker player. His mesmerizing account of that year went on to become a classic of the genre, an inspiration to innumerable poker players and poker memoirists who followed. Big Deal is his story of days and nights in Las Vegas, Malta, and Morocco, mingling with the greats, sharpening his game, perfecting his repartee, and learning a great deal about himself in the process. Poker, Holden would insist, is a paradigm of life at its most intense, a gladiatorial contest that brings out the best as well as the worst in people. The heroes and eccentrics of the poker world stalk the pages of this remarkable book, along with all the hairraising, nail-biting excitement of the game itself.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex General Circulation Physical Education - Sports and Wellness GC GV 1250.2 .H65 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000001045

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Living Right; 2 The Big One; 3 Shut Up and Deal; 4 Read 'Em and Weep; 5 On Tilt; 6 The Hall of Fame; 7 Enter the Shrink; 8 Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl; 9 An Ear Full of Cider; 10 Run Out of Town; 11 Cruising for a Bruising; 12 The End of the Road

In 1988, best-selling biographer Anthony Holden spent one year living the life of a professional poker player. His mesmerizing account of that year went on to become a classic of the genre, an inspiration to innumerable poker players and poker memoirists who followed. Big Deal is his story of days and nights in Las Vegas, Malta, and Morocco, mingling with the greats, sharpening his game, perfecting his repartee, and learning a great deal about himself in the process. Poker, Holden would insist, is a paradigm of life at its most intense, a gladiatorial contest that brings out the best as well as the worst in people. The heroes and eccentrics of the poker world stalk the pages of this remarkable book, along with all the hairraising, nail-biting excitement of the game itself.

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