Author: MATT MATROS
Title: The Making Of A Poker Player
Description: Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2005. Paperback. Pp: 286. - Author finished third in the 2004 World Poker Tour Championship, winning $706,903.- Includes chapter about author's experiences playing at the World Poker Tour Championship.- The 2004 WPT Championship game, featuring the author, was televised on the Travel Channel.- Foreword by Ben McGrath, staff writer for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town."- First-person card-playing narratives are extremely popular. Will appeal to readers of Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich (#3 on the New York Times bestselling non-fiction paperback list, 1/22/04), Poker Nation by Andy Bellin, and Positively Fifth Street by James McManus.- 60-80 million Americans play poker (according to the New York Times).- Over 2 million people watch weekly poker television shows such as the World Series of Poker. ISBN: 9780818406423. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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