Review: Fold This Book Quickly
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 5, 2013
The world of high stakes online poker would seem to be a natural for thriller writers, but the authors of his novel have managed to produce a confusing, boring mess. The storyline is promising: someone has discovered a way to cheat at online poker by becoming a "superuser," someone who can see all the hands. A group of elite players who have been defrauded launch an investigation, and some of them, plus the CEO of the online poker site wind up dead.The book was written by two authors who have written extensively about poker, but, apparently, not so extensively about anything else, because the writing and plotting are full of holes. The dialogue is terribly stilted, the story jumps wildly from one locale to another, and the authors seem intent on turning the end of each chapter into the book into a cliffhanger. Further, the book contains far too much insider poker technology, so that nonplayers and casual players will often be befuddled by the dialogue.The material in the book would have made a good article (the book is apparently fact based), but as a novel, it's more of a busted flush than a full house.