[Shaun]

If you like reading about poker's less PC history I'd reccomend the book. These days poker wants a clean image, but there are some fun-to-read anectdotes about coke binges, cheating, the mafia, and Puggy Pearson that are certainly fun to read.

I myself love reading about the gamblers of old, so I enjoyed the book, even though teh chapters on more contemporary figures like Chris Ferguson and "the women of poker" were decidedly less interesting. The bottom line is, the stories of the newer breed of players are boring, but the stories on Chip Reese, Puggy Pearson, and Stu Ungar make the book worth reading. There's also some stuff about Brunson but it seems I'd read it before in other books.