Big Deal: One Year as a Professional Poker Player
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In 1988, the biographer Anthony Holden set aside his usual work and spent a year trying to earn his living at the card table as a professional poker player. The result became a classic of its field and a model for the many players who later wrote about their own lives at the table. The journey takes him through the gambling rooms of Las Vegas and on to Malta and Morocco, where he competes against the sport's best-known figures, refines his strategy, sharpens his wit, and discovers some uncomfortable truths about himself.
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For Holden, poker is a vivid picture of life lived at full intensity, a contest that reveals both the finest and the darkest sides of the people who play it. The book is full of memorable characters and eccentrics, and the tension of the game itself keeps the pages turning.
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