The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King
Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
by Michael Craig
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Poker, Most Recommended Books, and History.
The Players: the best poker professionals in the world The Challenger: a wealthy banker from Dallas The Game: the richest poker stakes of all time... In 2001, a rich stranger from Texas descended upon the highstakes poker room in the opulent Bellagio casino in Las Vegas. A selfmade billionaire by the name of Andy Beal, the stranger challenged som...
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“Reading this feels like shadowing a curious travel writer who has wandered into a closed-off subculture. Holden spends a year embedded with professional poker players across Las Vegas, Malta, Morocco and at sea, narrating hands, personalities, and barroom repartee while folding in moments of self-reflection. What works best is lively, anecdotal immersion — scenes of stakes, banter, and travel that bring the game to life. The main limitation is repetition and jargon: narrative momentum stalls when similar stories and name-dropping pile up, and it offers little in the way of practical poker instruction.”
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