The Biggest Game in Town (Paperback: 176 pages)
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Product Details: The Biggest Game in Town
| Author: | Alfred Alvarez, Al Alvarez |
| Format: | Paperback: 176 pages. |
| Publisher: | Picador USA (02/03/2009) |
| ISBN: | 0312428421 |
| ISBN13: | 9780312428426 |
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Publisher Notes: The Biggest Game in Town
- Al Alvarez touched down in Las Vegas one hot day in 1981, a dedicated amateur poker player but a stranger to the town and its crazy ways. For three mesmerizing weeks he witnessed some of the monster high-stakes games that could only have happened in Vegas and talked to the extraordinary characters who dominated them--road gamblers and local professionals who won and lost fortunes on a regular basis.
Set over the course of one tournament, "The Biggest Game in Town" is botha chronicle of the World Series of Poker--the first ever written--and a portrait of the hustlers, madmen, and geniuses who ruled the high-stakes game in America. It is a brilliant insight into poker's appeal as a hobby, an addiction, and a way of life, and into the skewed psychology of master players and fearless gamblers. With a new introduction by the author, Alvarez's classic account is "the greatest dissection of high-stakes Vegas poker and the madness that surrounds it ever written" ("TimeOut" UK]).
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