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Reviewed on October 4, 2004
Seizing on poker's explosion in popular culture, Gordon (co-host of Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown and two-time World Poker Tour champion) and Grotenstein offer an instructive overview of the game, lifestyle and culture that reaches beyond dry technicalities. A rigorous defense of poker as a game of skill--not chicanery--the book frames it as an all-American exercise in individual shrewdness. In jaunty prose broken up with diagrams of sample hands, the authors explain terminology, strate...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

