Poker Bets, Bluffs, and Bad Beats by A Alvarez ISBN 13: 9780811827515

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Chronicle Books, 2001-06. Hardcover. Good.

Chronicle Books, 2001-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.6890 9.8110 9.0512. Shows minor wear.

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Chronicle Books, 2001-06-01. Hardcover. Like New. Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 128 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Chronicle Books Llc, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Hardcover in jacket..

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Hardback with D/J in like new condition. Amazon In Poker Bets, Bluffs, and Bad Beats, journalist, poet and novelist Al Alvarez looks back on a lifetime's immersion in the business of playing cards for money, and quantifies the emotional and intellectual pot into which he and millions of other players past and present have been tossing their chips for nearly 200 years. For the past 40 years or more I have played poker regularly, once or twice a week, except when I am in Las Vegas, when I play all day every day for a couple of weeks on end. Poker changed my life, and sometimes I think it may even have saved it. From the card-sharps on the Mississippi steamboats, to the thrill-seeking octogenarians playing for $5 jackpots in corporate Las Vegas, Alvarez explores the history and mythology of the game, the legends and the also-rans, arguing that the legacy of poker is far greater than sum of its losers and winners. Alvarez gauges how far the language and underlying attitudes of the game have become… Read More

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San Francisco, CA.: Chronicle Books. Vg/Vg- Dj Sunned At Spine, Lightly Edgeworn. Pages Clean, Binding Tight. Pages: 128.. 2001. Hardcover..

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