Payment from overseas only through PayPal. All overseas post is sent through Ebay's Global Shipping Program. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** If you require any further information regarding this or any other listing please contact us. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF AN INTERESTING BOOK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IF YOU REQUIRE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION REGARDING THIS BOOK/THESE BOOK (S), PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT US. THE PAGES ARE GENERALLY CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. FOR RICHER FOR POORER A LOVE AFFAIR WITH POKER by VICTORIA COREN ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * PUBLISHER: CANONGATE YEAR: 2009 * ISBN/SBN: N/A * No OF PAGES: 318 * CONDITION: USED - GOOD *OTHER: *PROOF* THE BOOK IS IN GOOD CONDITION APART FROM MINOR RUBBING TO THE CORNERS.
THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF AN INTERESTING BOOK.
OTHER: PROOF THE BOOK IS IN GOOD CONDITION APART FROM MINOR RUBBING TO THE CORNERS. Item: 202496053716 FOR RICHER FOR POORER by VICTORIA COREN-CANONGATE-P/B-UK POST £3.25*PROOF*. As far as poker books go, this isn’t quite the all time champ, but it can certainly sit a table with Alvarez and Holden without embarrassment.Seller: happyfishbooks_co ✉️ (26.237) 99.9%, But hers is a more balanced view, finding contemporary players she has great affection for, and scrutinising those old ‘characters’ to find them less fascinating than previously thought. Like Holden, she bemoans the way that internet-born maths introverts have largely replaced the characters who used to play the game. She becomes addicted early on, just before the game expands, and soon she’s playing on ‘Celebrity Late Night Poker’ with the likes of Stephen Fry and Martin Amis, but also Alvarez and Holden.
Coren’s book covers the same period, only she’s less glum – the explosion in poker playing is exciting to her, and she’s pretty successful too. The classics of this genre are Al Alvarez’s The Biggest Game in Town and Tony Holden’s Big Deal, which was followed by a more glum follow up, Bigger Deal, about poker’s growth from disreputable backroom game into multinational industry. This is a poker memoir, a genre that has grown unexpectedly in recent years with the general boom in gambling.
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