Take Me To The River
A Wayward And Perilous Journey To The World Series Of Poker
- Editore:
Simon And Schuster Group USA
- EAN:
9780743288378
- ISBN:
0743288378
- Pagine:
- 304
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Take Me To The River
An overeducated underachiever, Peter Alson spent his post-college decades doing his best not to grow up. But having just turned fifty, this rambling-gambling bachelor decides it's time to settle down. So he pops the question to his longtime girlfriend, then hatches a plan to pay for their wedding -- involving poker and a trip to Las Vegas. Boarding a plane bound for the neon desert and the biggest game in town -- the 2005 World Series of Poker -- this inveterate gambler and bad boy stares down his past and his future while competing for over $56 million in prize money. "Take Me to the River" is a hilarious, wrenching, full-tilt Vegas exploration of one man's obsession with poker and the lessons it has to offer -- about probability and luck, good fortune and bad, patience, perseverance, and -- most fitting for a man with marriage in his near future -- commitment.