The Education of a Poker Player
Should you open with queens in 5-card draw? What happens when a guy
dies holding quad aces? And how do you catch a Nazi spy in
Kuomintang-controlled China (and beat him out of his money first)?
dies holding quad aces? And how do you catch a Nazi spy in
Kuomintang-controlled China (and beat him out of his money first)?
Take or leave the poker advice - chances are you won't be playing the same
games anyway - but read it for the gambling stories. Ian Fleming said it
contained a hatful of the finest in the genre he had ever read. He was right.
You also get more of Fleming, who wrote the foreword to the book, as well
as Jesse May on entertaining form in the preface.
Did I mention I'm writing a screenplay for a Yardley biopic?
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