Poker Nation: A High Stakes, Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country - Brossura

Bellin, Andy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060958472 ISBN 13: 9780060958473

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2003

Riassunto

A rollicking and riveting glimpse into the realm of professional poker covers every aspect of America's most popular obsession, exposing the illegal "poker clubs" found in every city, revealing the strange rites and traditions, and introducing the interesting characters and twisted psyches of the players that exist in this bizarre subculture. Reprint.

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“Poker Nation is an invitation to the lower depths, with a high-spirited, genial screw-off for our Virgil.” (The New Yorker)

“Bellin’s love for the game is contagious, and POKER NATION is a sure winner.” (Time Out New York)

“...Amusing and instructive.” (Washington Post)

“Quite simply, a royal flush of a book!” (George Plimpton)

“Andy Bellin has written a good―oh hell make that great―book. Bellin entertains, educates, and illuminates.” (Peter Alson, author of Confessions of an Ivy League Bookie)

“ Cash in your chips and go home with a good book about poker―like this one.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“...Engagingly written...” (Booklist)

“...Smart, insightful. It’s one of the few entertaining poker books around.” (John L. Smith, Las Vegas Boulevard)

“Bellin’s prose shimmers.” B+ (Entertainment Weekly)

“...Breezy, informative...[Bellin] knows his way around the poker table and he tells a good story.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)

L'autore:

On his way to a master's degree in astrophysics, Andy Bellin made the fatal mistake of falling in love with poker. Leaving graduate school at age twenty-two, he has played semipro poker for ten years. His writing has appeared in such publications as Esquire, Details and Maxim, and he is an editor at the Paris Review. Bellin lives in New York City, where there are no fewer than four underground poker clubs within a mile of his apartment. You can find him at one on almost any given night.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060958472
• ISBN 13: 9780060958473
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 258