The Biggest Game in Town
By Al Alvarez

Book Description

Called "the best book ever written on poker" by players and critics alike, The Biggest Game in Town is a sought-after classic that's finally available in print again. Acclaimed author A. Alvarez delves into the seedy, obsessive world of high-stakes Vegas poker, where "the next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing." Uncovering an exotic underground rich in ambiance and eccentricity, The Biggest Game in Town is "a magnificent book " (San Francisco Chronicle), a real one of a kind.

Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal

A large portion of this 1983 volume initially appeared in The New Yorker as a series of sketches of the cardsharps who annually descend on Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker. The players make for interesting portraits, and Alvarez lets them have their say. Anyone interested in gaming will enjoy this, but others might as well.
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Author:

Al Alvarez

A. Alvarez lives in London and is a frequent contributor to many publications, including the New York Review of Books. He is, to quote London's Evening Standard, "a poet, novelist, critic, anthologist, and author of books on everything from suicide to North Sea oil. To those of us who have spent too much of our lives chasing straights and flushes in smoky card rooms, however, he is known only for one thing-The Biggest Game in Town."

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