Big Deal
Subtitle: A Year as a Professional Poker Player
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: April 3, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780743294812
Subjects: Biography And Autobiography; Gambling; Biography & Autobiography; Games / Gamebooks / Crosswords; Biography/Autobiography; Card Games - Poker; Gambling - General; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Games; Personal Memoirs; Poker; Poker players
Description: "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 hair raising, nail biting excitement of the game itself."--Back cover.