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Positively Fifth Street (Paperback)

By: James McManus (Author)


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"It's a safe wager that professional poker players aren't very good writers, but it's also better than even money that adept writers are, or could be, cunning poker players, for they come to understand motive and risk and instinctively realize that you can't win if you don't bet. James McManus bet big and won. His POSITIVELY FIFTH STREET, an exhilarating chronicle of the 2000 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, will go on the shelf with the classic that inspired it, THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN, A. Alvarez's account of the 1981 event."

Publisher's note

A chronicle of life in Las Vegas investigates the murder of poker player Ted Binion, revealing a secret world of kinky sex, black magic, and science lurking at the heart of gambling's World Series of Poker.

Annotation

When HARPER'S magazine gave James McManus a $4,000 advance to write an article on the 2000 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, he used it as a springboard to win his own way into the game. A poker player since the age of 9, McManus worked at improving his game and was eventually able to win the $10,000 needed to enter the big game--which boasts a prize of $1 million. Throughout the book McManus weaves in stories about his own life experiences, the challenges and strategies of playing poker, and the sensational murder trial of a stripper and her boyfriend who are accused of murdering Ted Binion, the tournament's former host. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.



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