Author: David A. Curtis
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: David A. Curtis
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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This is a fun collection of absorbing classic stories about poker and the men who play the game. These short stories set in Brownsville are lucidly based on David A. Curtis's experiences in the little town. Filled with vibrant, intriguing, and smart characters trying to win at poker, this volume makes a fascinating read for the fans of this popular card game.

Author: James McManus
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429990686
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 529

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From James McManus, author of the bestselling Positively Fifth Street, comes the definitive story of the game that, more than any other, reflects who we are and how we operate. Cowboys Full is the story of poker, from its roots in China, the Middle East, and Europe to its ascent as a global—but especially an American—phenomenon. It describes how early Americans took a French parlor game and, with a few extra cards and an entrepreneurial spirit, turned it into a national craze by the time of the Civil War. From the kitchen-table games of ordinary citizens to its influence on generals and diplomats, poker has gone hand in hand with our national experience. Presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama have deployed poker and its strategies to explain policy, to relax with friends, to negotiate treaties and crises, and as a political networking tool. The ways we all do battle and business are echoed by poker tactics: cheating and thwarting cheaters, leveraging uncertainty, bluffing and sussing out bluffers, managing risk and reward. Cowboys Full shows how what was once accurately called the cheater's game has become amostly honest contest of cunning, mathematical precision, and luck. It explains how poker, formerly dominated by cardsharps, is now the most popular card game in Europe, East Asia, Australia, South America, and cyberspace, as well as on television. It combines colorful history with firsthand experience from today's professional tour. And it examines poker's remarkable hold on American culture, from paintings by Frederic Remington to countless poker novels, movies, and plays. Braiding the thrill of individual hands with new ways of seeing poker's relevance to our military, diplomatic, business, and personal affairs, Cowboys Full is sure to become the classic account of America's favorite pastime.

Author: David A. Curtis
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Author: Anthony Holden
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147116229X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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He Played For His Wife…And Other Stories continues a rich tradition of fictional writing on one of the world’s greatest games. A ghost at the table, a heads-up with Shakespeare, a high stakes stick-up, a hand played on Death Row, tales of pioneers and knaves, even a celestial argy-bargy – each story in this anthology reveals that when it comes to playing poker, no one can hide from their true selves. Whoever you are, you can be sure all your passions and compulsions, your desires, your foibles and idiosyncrasies will be unsparingly crystalised and exposed on the baize. First mentioned in print in a military history book published in 1836, the game of poker quickly found its way into the modern literary canon. Requiring technical skill and creative fiction in equal measure, poker is the quintessential writer’s game. From John Steinbeck, Bret Harte, Henry James to Damon Runyon, writers throughout the ages have found in poker a natural prism to refract complex human experience. Poker is one of the few sports to have spawned a literature almost as rich and colourful as its own exotic history. Featuring contributions from Booker Prize-winning novelist D.B.C. Pierre, award-winning playwright Patrick Marber, actor Neil Pearson and poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, He Played For His Wife…And Other Stories is a compelling collection that will appeal to poker fans everywhere.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 900

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling
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Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages : 1430

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 932

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