Poker Nation: A High Stakes, Low-life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country - Softcover

Bellin, Andy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060958472 ISBN 13: 9780060958473

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2020

Synopsis

Pub Date: 2003-02-04 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US Journalist and poker fanatic Andy Bellin takes readers on a raucous journey into the shut-up-and-deal world of professional poker From basement games to the World. Series of Poker in Las Vegas. youll look over his shoulder as he learns to count cards. read a legendary players body language. hang in there when the chips are down. and take his beatings like a man. Even if you dont know the difference between a flop and a river card. Bellin keeps you in the game with his portraits of the colorful players. dreamers. hustlers. and eccentrics who populate this strange subculture. Along with learning what goes on behind the scenes in illegal poker clubs. youll get great advice on how to play Texas Holdem. todays game of choice for big-money players.

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Journalist and poker fanatic Andy Bellin takes readers on a raucous journey into the shut-up-and-deal world of professional poker. From basement games to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, you'll look over his shoulder as he learns to count cards, read a legendary player's body language, hang in there when the chips are down, and take his beatings like a man. Even if you don't know the difference between a flop and a river card, Bellin keeps you in the game with his portraits of the colorful players, dreamers, hustlers, and eccentrics who populate this strange subculture. Along with learning what goes on behind the scenes in illegal poker clubs, you'll get great advice on how to play Texas Hold'em, today's game of choice for big-money players.

Review:

"Quite simply, a royal flush of a book!" -- George Plimpton

."Amusing and instructive." -- Washington Post

"Bellin's prose shimmers." B+ -- Entertainment Weekly

."Engagingly written." -- Booklist

."Breezy, informative.[Bellin] knows his way around the poker table and he tells a good story." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

"Andy Bellin has written a good-oh hell make that great-book. Bellin entertains, educates, and illuminates." -- Peter Alson, author of Confessions of an Ivy League Bookie

."Smart, insightful. It's one of the few entertaining poker books around." -- John L. Smith, Las Vegas Boulevard

"Colorful and insightful." -- Kansas City Star

Engagingly written --Booklist

Bellin s prose shimmers. B+--Entertainment Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0060958472
• ISBN 13: 9780060958473
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284