Covering poker’s world championship event and the many characters it draws, this work compiles some of the strangest things said about the game and presents a detailed argument that this past yeat was the strangest year in poker yet. Sharpe’s thorough excavations through long-forgotten archives of the game have uncovered the first-ever poker cheat who was literally making a spectacle of himself in 1829; has unearthed a game which reportedly lasted for 24 years, exposed the U.S. President who gam
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Good bathroom reading for the poker enthusiast.,
This book presents a chronology of interesting poker stories and events from 1808 to the present day. The description of each of these items is comprised of only 1 or 2 pages. Thus, the title for this review.
Some of these stories are more interesting than others and the text should probably be edited for American readers. (The author is apparently from the “other side of the pond”.) However, the author actually does an excellent job of tracing the history of poker in America.
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