description: This Audiofy audiobook chip packs a full 8 hour reading of "Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids," narrated by the author, on a tiny memory card. A single Audiofy audiobook chip, hardly larger than a stamp, holds a complete digital audiobook, and saves the last listening position automatically, unlike CDs. With an SD memory card slot or low-cost adapter - like those for digital cameras - this Audiofy audiobook chip can be played on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh desktop computers or laptops (Microsoft Windows XP/2000/Me/98, or Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above) or transferred to Apple iPod media players. Audiobook chips also move seamlessly to most Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld PDAs with SD expansion slots, as well as Treo and Windows Mobile "smartphones" (Palm OS 5.2 or Windows Mobile 2002 and above)... If you think a gang of real-life geeks can't take on the world and win big... think again. And whatever you do, don't sit down across a gaming table from Jon Finkel, better known as Jonny Magic. This is his amazing true story: the jaw-dropping, zero-to-hero chronicle of a fat, friendless boy from New Jersey who found his edge in a game of cards - and turned it into a fortune! Finkel grew up heckled and hazed until destiny came in the form of a trading-card game called Magic: The Gathering. Magic exploded from nerdy obsession to mainstream mania and made the teenage Finkel an ultra-cool world champion. Once transformed, this young shark stormed poker rooms until he landed on the largest card-counting blackjack team in the country. Taking Vegas for millions, Finkel's squad of brainy gamers then took on the town's biggest game, the World Series of Poker, and walked away with more than $3.5 million! Thrilling, edgy, and ferociously feel-good, the odyssey of these underdogs-turned-overlords is the stuff of pop-culture legend. AUTHOR: David Kushner's work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Wired, Spin, Salon and The New York Times.
language: English
title: Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids
titlecomplete: Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)
genres: History, Nonfiction, Games, Biography
ratings_count: 290
publisher: Audiofy/Listen & Live