The Making of a Poker Player
Based on The Cover
The author secured the third position in the 2004 World Poker Tour Championship, bagging a prize of $706,903. The book includes a chapter detailing the author’s experiences during this championship. The 2004 WPT Championship game, in which the author participated, was broadcasted on the Travel Channel. The foreword of the book is penned by Ben McGrath, a writer for The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town.” The book, featuring first-person card-playing narratives, is expected to attract readers of popular books like Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich, Poker Nation by Andy Bellin, and Positively Fifth Street by James McManus. According to the New York Times, 60-80 million Americans play poker and over 2 million people tune in to watch weekly poker television shows such as the World Series of Poker.
