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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.
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Take Me to the River, Peter Alson, Brian Koppelman
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- Rok vydání
- 2007
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- Titul
- Take Me to the River
- Podtitul
- A Wayward and Perilous Journey to the World Series of Poker
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Peter Alson, Brian Koppelman
- Vydavatel
- Atria
- Rok vydání
- 2007
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0743288378
- ISBN13
- 9780743288378
- Série
- Štítky
- Naučná literatura, Dětská literatura, Skutečné příběhy, Životopisy, Sport, Autobiografie & Memoáry, USA, Hry, Biografie, Vzpomínky, Hry & Aktivity s dětmi, Manželství, Novináři, novinářky, Filozofové, Hazard, Karetní hry, Poker
- Hodnocení
- 3,85 z 5
- Anotace
- 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.