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050			_aGV 1250.2 .H65 1990
100			_aHolden, Anthony _eauthor
245		0	_aBig deal : _ba year as a professional poker player / _cAnthony Holden
260			_aNew York : _bViking Press, _cc1990
300			_aix, 306 pages ; _c25 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_a1 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
520			_a 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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