Moneymaker : how an amateur poker player turned $40 into $2.5 million at the World Series of Poker /
"Chris Moneymaker was a young accountant from Tennessee who loved to gamble but only took up cards after college. Three years later he was playing a $40 game of online Texas Hold 'Em and won a coveted seat at the 2003 World Series of Poker. Borrowing money to get to Las Vegas, he entered h...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : HarperEntertainment, 2005. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Chris Moneymaker was a young accountant from Tennessee who loved to gamble but only took up cards after college. Three years later he was playing a $40 game of online Texas Hold 'Em and won a coveted seat at the 2003 World Series of Poker. Borrowing money to get to Las Vegas, he entered his first real-time tournament and spent the next four days battling for a top spot at the final table." "Filled with everything from his early gambling ventures to a play-by-play of his major hands at the World Series of Poker, Moneymaker is a fast-paced story for anyone who has ever dreamed of winning it big."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 240 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 006076001X |
| FOLIO Link: | View instance in FOLIO |