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The Biggest Game in Town (Paperback)

By: A. Alvarez (Author)

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Al Alvarez touched down in Las Vegas one hot day in 1981, a poker novice and a stranger to the excesses of the American game. Soon enough he was in the casino back rooms and musty bars of Las Vegas, meeting the flamboyant characters who dominate the World Series of Poker--roving gamblers who have won and lost many fortunes at the tables. Set over the course of one tournament, "The Biggest ""Game in Town "is both a chronicle of the World Series of Poker and a history of the hustlers, madmen, and masterminds who created the high-stakes game in America. With a new introduction by the author, Alvarez's classic account is one of the greatest gaming stories ever told.

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Decades before the internet poker boom and ESPN's broadcasting of the World Series of Poker, high-stakes poker in Las Vegas was a little-known world of fearless gamblers, larger-than-life characters like Amarillo Slim and Johnny Moss, and more than a few hustlers and crooks. Al Alvarez, the British poet and editor, seemed an unlikely author to delve into this murky world of card sharks and poker pros, but his 1981 book, THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN, has become a classic among poker lovers everywhere--the world he describes is mostly gone now, the smoky rooms replaced by vast poker halls, and the cagey road warriors replaced by game-theorists and internet whiz kids, but for many this book will remain the quintessential poker book, a vividly described account of the fringe society of men who won and lost vast sums of money on the turn of a card.

Al Alvarez touched down in Las Vegas one hot day in 1981, a poker novice and a stranger to the excesses of the American game. Soon enough he was in the casino back rooms and musty bars of Las Vegas, meeting the flamboyant characters who dominate the World Series of Poker--roving gamblers who have won and lost many fortunes at the tables. Set over the course of one tournament, "The Biggest ""Game in Town "is both a chronicle of the World Series of Poker and a history of the hustlers, madmen, and masterminds who created the high-stakes game in America. With a new introduction by the author, Alvarez's classic account is one of the greatest gaming stories ever told.

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