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Hey, I'm getting a bit burned out, so to get back in the poker mood I want to read something that's not a strategy book, but still about poker. Something in the "Positively Fifth Street" line. If you guys have some recommendations I'd appreciate it.
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Try "Poker Face" by Katy Lederer.
or, Poker Nation by Andy Bellin, Big Deal by Tony Holden... Bringing down the House... stuff like that.
or, Poker Nation by Andy Bellin, Big Deal by Tony Holden... Bringing down the House... stuff like that.
The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time.
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The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time.
This one!
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The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time.
This one!
If you want a book like Positively Fifth Street - this is the one that surpasses it.
The other books are barely like Positively Fifth Street - i.e. that have a continuous thread or story about a poker game. Other wise the original Biggest Game in Town maybe worth checking out when you are done with Michael Craig's excellent book (link goes to Amazon - I get no money for it).
I recently read Tales From the Tiltboys. There isn't a funnier poker book out there.
If you also like golf, you'd really enjoy the Dewey Tomko chapter in Who's Your Caddy? by Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly.
Turns out that this solid pro is a total action junkie on the golf course.
Rick Reilly caddied for him -- and also for a list of guys that include Donald Trump and Bob Newhart -- and was dumbstruck at how careless Dewey was with rolled up $10,000 wads of cash. Dewey would forget about and leave them in coat pockets, car trunks, brown paper bags, bottoms of luggage...
Another excerpt:
Amazon Links:
Tales From the Tiltboys:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=books&n=507846
Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=books
If you also like golf, you'd really enjoy the Dewey Tomko chapter in Who's Your Caddy? by Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly.
Turns out that this solid pro is a total action junkie on the golf course.
Rick Reilly caddied for him -- and also for a list of guys that include Donald Trump and Bob Newhart -- and was dumbstruck at how careless Dewey was with rolled up $10,000 wads of cash. Dewey would forget about and leave them in coat pockets, car trunks, brown paper bags, bottoms of luggage...
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"That's nothin'," Dewey said, then told how his mentor, two-time World Series of Poker champ and legendary golf hustler Doyle Brunson, once moved without ever finding the $300,000 in gold Kruggerrands [coins] in his back yard.
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He and Brunson won so much money it was comical. "We used to pick up the paper and laugh at the leading money winners on tour," Dewey says with a grin. "Hell, sometimes Doyle'd make more in one day than the leader would make in a whole year."
Amazon Links:
Tales From the Tiltboys:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=books&n=507846
Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=books
Excerpts from Tales From the Tiltboys:
When Phil Hellmuth played in the Tiltboys home game:
When Phil Hellmuth played in the Tiltboys home game:
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1:00 a.m--
"I guess I'm really happy about this loss," Hellmuth says. "If this was $600-$1,200, I'd be down $100,000."
At one point, Perry calls Hellmuth an "ex-World Champion."
Hellmuth pointedly corrects Perry. "It's never 'ex-.' I'm just a World Champion."
Perry takes this message to heart and stops calling him an ex-champ. He instead joins the rest of us in calling him a "former world champion," "one-time world champion," and "dethroned world champion" for the rest of the night.
"I guess I'm really happy about this loss," Hellmuth says. "If this was $600-$1,200, I'd be down $100,000."
At one point, Perry calls Hellmuth an "ex-World Champion."
Hellmuth pointedly corrects Perry. "It's never 'ex-.' I'm just a World Champion."
Perry takes this message to heart and stops calling him an ex-champ. He instead joins the rest of us in calling him a "former world champion," "one-time world champion," and "dethroned world champion" for the rest of the night.
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All in all, Hellmuth was incredibly gracious.
But this last exchange says it all:
"Perry, what were the blinds? $2-$4?"
"Yeah, Phil. $2-$4."
"And I lost $2,700."
But this last exchange says it all:
"Perry, what were the blinds? $2-$4?"
"Yeah, Phil. $2-$4."
"And I lost $2,700."
One of a kind: The rise of fall of Stuey "The Kid" Ungar.
Brilliant biography...
Brilliant biography...
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