This classic book is out on its own, not only as a poker playing manual but also as an exposure of the cynical reality behind the American dream. As Yardley describes how he learned to master the game he teaches us the most important lessons that he had to learn the hard way. At the same time he's a master raconteur, spinning the yarns that make up his life and experience at the table, with an inventive wit.
The result is a marvellous autobiography about countless poker games and countless characters, about the railroad men, travelling salesmen, speculators, drunks, no hopers - even secret agents - whom Yardley saw through a tobacco haze across the green baize tables of the world.
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I sent to America for this book, was delighted with it and gave some copies away for Christmas. I said the book contained a hatful of some of the finest gambling stories I had ever read. The book would certainly become a classic -- Ian Fleming What Goren and Vanderbilt have done for the bridge player, Herbert O. Yardley has now done for the poker player. He has given us dignity, wisdom and philosophy. As a tale, this book is a delight * New York Times Book Review *
Sprache
Verlagsort
Harpenden, Herts
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84344-001-7 (9781843440017)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Herbert O. Yardley started mastering the infinite subtleties of poker in his teens in a saloon of the Old West. During the 1920s he worked in MI-8, the first U.S. peacetime cryptanalytic organization. When MI-8 was disbanded in 1929 Yardley caused a sensation with the publication of his memoirs, The American Black Chamber, still regarded as a classic book on codes, ciphers and spies.
