The Hand I Played: A Poker Memoir (Gambling Studies Series)
David Spanier, was one of the world's foremost writers on poker and gambling. His many books included Welcome to the Pleasuredome, Inside the Gambler's Mind, and Total Poker. Spanier became the world's first poker columnist of a national newspaper when he started a weekly column for The Independent. Spanier also had a long, distinguished career as a diplomatic journalist at The Times and in radio. He died in 2000.