The Biggest Game in Town

by Al Alvarez

Paper Book, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

795.4120979313

Collection

Publication

Picador (2009), Paperback, 192 pages

Description

Since its first publication twenty years ago, The Biggest Game in Town has become a cult classic. Al Alvarez delves into the murky and compelling world of high-stakes Vegas poker, where 'the next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing'. Deftly capturing the skewed psyches and peculiar rites of professional poker players who descend every year for the World Series of Poker, an exotic world is uncovered, a world that seems too eccentric, too amazing, too extravagant to be true.

User reviews

LibraryThing member br77rino
A good discussion of what poker was like before the stampede following the televising of the games with hole cameras.

Language

Physical description

192 p.; 8.26 inches

ISBN

0312428421 / 9780312428426

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