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12-01-2005, 09:55 PM
Amazon just sent me a link to this book as a book I might enjoy. Has anyone read it? Opinions?
npc
12-02-2005, 05:20 AM
I reviewed it for Poker Player about a month ago. My review is also here:
http://www.jetcafe.org/~npc/reviews/gambling/all_in.html

In summary, I enjoyed it.
Malachii
12-02-2005, 07:01 AM
Nice review Nick. You write very well.
12-02-2005, 01:37 PM
this book is a very fun read. and makes you appericate the wsop expericne

i read this book fairly quickly, and enjoyed it alot. i would call it a must read with one of a kind, and all the other non stragedy bookks
12-03-2005, 02:40 AM
I generally agree with the review Nick provide a link to in the above post. The book is definitely worth a read, and gives a pretty good sense of what the early WSOP's were like, which is probably the best part of the read.
12-03-2005, 10:21 AM
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Nice review Nick. You write very well.

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Agreed. You are probably the first one at Poker Player to use the terms "apocryphal" and "staid history text", or even know what they mean for that matter.
npc
12-03-2005, 02:39 PM
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Nice review Nick. You write very well.

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Agreed. You are probably the first one at Poker Player to use the terms "apocryphal" and "staid history text", or even know what they mean for that matter.

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Thank you both for the kind words, but I need to point out that I know quite a few of my colleagues are very literate individuals.
Billman
12-04-2005, 02:32 PM
I also reviewed the book on my website:

http://www.billrini.com/index.php/2005/1...eries-of-poker/ (http://www.billrini.com/index.php/2005/11/06/all-in-the-almost-entirely-true-story-of-the-world-series-of-poker/)

Summary, a pretty good book though if you've spent a lot of time around poker, some of the stories may seem a little cliche by now.