- Hardcover: 258 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd; First Edition First Printing edition (19 Feb 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 006076001X
- ISBN-13: 978-0060760014
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14.2 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,257,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Positively 5th Street meets Play Poker Like the Pros in the amazing story of the average Joe who shocked the gaming world by winning the 2003 World Series of Poker in his first ever real-time competition.
Chris Moneymaker was just a regular guy working as an accountant in Tennessee, who enjoyed playing online poker - and winning. On a fluke he decided to enter the World Series of Poker, paid the $40 application fee, and, with only three years' experience playing the game, won it all: $2.5 million. Merging Chris' amazing story with actual tools to help the average Joe become a poker star, this is the must-have poker book for online dreamers and budding young amateurs alike.
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This is anything but a self-help poker manual. It's much more a warts-and-all account of how a fairly ordinary guy with an extraordinarily apt name and an almost uncontrollable problem managed to parlay a small-stakes online satellite tournament entry into a seven-figure sum at the WSOP Main Event and in the process drag his life away from the gutter into which it had previously been headed.
While you won't learn how to play poker better, there's much of interest in following Chris' career (both senses of the word) develop and seeing how the biggest tournament in world poker unfolds. It's rather refreshing, though, to discover that Chris isn't painted as some poker genius, or even a particularly successful - or likeable - human being.
Probably just about worth reading once, but give it away or sell it thereafter: there's nothing that you'll want - or need - to go back to.
While you won't learn how to play poker better, there's much of interest in following Chris' career (both senses of the word) develop and seeing how the biggest tournament in world poker unfolds. It's rather refreshing, though, to discover that Chris isn't painted as some poker genius, or even a particularly successful - or likeable - human being.
Probably just about worth reading once, but give it away or sell it thereafter: there's nothing that you'll want - or need - to go back to.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
really very interesting book, not too much to learn about how to play poker, but really very very intriguing book
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book on the flight over to the World Series last year to see if it would provide me with any insight into what i might expect. There were a few interesting observations but nothing earth shattering. I wouldn't say it is 'unputdownable' but it is a fairly enjoyable read. It won't provide you with any real tips to improve your play, it merely documents Moneymaker's ride to the world series and how he felt during his journey to eventually winning it.
It's not a bad book.
It's not a bad book.
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