Big Deal: A Year as a Professional Poker Player
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Big Deal: A Year as a Professional Poker Player ISBN 0743294815 is a book
by Anthony Holden
. The book details a year Holden spent playing poker
around the world, attempting to make a living, or at least a profit
, from the endeavor.
The book details many things about the gamesmanship of poker.
An incident where a professional poker player cited the book as the impetus to become a pro is in the book's epilogue.
Holden has written a sequel, Bigger Deal: A Year Inside the Poker Boom
.
Book
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by Anthony Holden
Anthony Holden
Anthony Holden is an English writer, broadcaster and critic, particularly known as a biographer of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, Leigh Hunt, Lorenzo da Ponte and Laurence Olivier, and of members of the British Royal family, notably Charles, Prince of Wales...
. The book details a year Holden spent playing poker
Poker
Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...
around the world, attempting to make a living, or at least a profit
Profit (economics)
In economics, the term profit has two related but distinct meanings. Normal profit represents the total opportunity costs of a venture to an entrepreneur or investor, whilst economic profit In economics, the term profit has two related but distinct meanings. Normal profit represents the total...
, from the endeavor.
The book details many things about the gamesmanship of poker.
An incident where a professional poker player cited the book as the impetus to become a pro is in the book's epilogue.
Holden has written a sequel, Bigger Deal: A Year Inside the Poker Boom
Bigger Deal: A Year Inside the Poker Boom
Bigger Deal: A Year Inside the Poker Boom ISBN 0743294823 is Anthony Holden's followup to his 1990 book Big Deal: A Year as a Professional Poker Player. The book follows Holden's return to professional poker fifteen years after his last adventure ended...
.