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Al Alvarez touched down in Las Vegas one hot day in 1981 a dedicated amateurpoker player but a stranger to the town and its crazy ways. For threemesmerizing weeks he witnessed some of the monster highstakes games that couldonly have happened in Vegas and talked to the extraordinary characters whodominated themroad gamblers and local professionals who won and lost fortuneson a regular basis. Set over the course of one tournament The Biggest Game inTown is botha chronicle of the World Series of Pokerthe first ever writtenand a portrait of the hustlers madmen and geniuses who ruled the highstakesgame in America. It is a brilliant insight into pokers appeal as a hobby anaddiction and a way of life and into the skewed psychology of master playersand fearless gamblers. With a new introduction by the author Alvarezs classicaccount is the greatest dissection of highstakes Vegas poker and the madnessthat surrounds it ever written TimeOut UK. «
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