Big Deal
eBook - ePub

Big Deal

A Year as a Professional Poker Player

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Big Deal

A Year as a Professional Poker Player

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. 1 Living Right
  7. 2 The Big One
  8. 3 Shut Up and Deal
  9. 4 Read ’Em and Weep
  10. 5 On Tilt
  11. 6 The Hall of Fame
  12. 7 Enter the Shrink
  13. 8 Amarillo Slim’s Super Bowl
  14. 9 An Ear Full of Cider
  15. 10 Run Out of Town
  16. 11 Cruising for a Bruising
  17. 12 The End of the Road
  18. Appendix 1 The Ranking of Hands
  19. Appendix 2 Select Bibliography
  20. Appendix 3 Glossary of Poker Terms
  21. Acknowledgments
  22. Bigger Deal Teaser