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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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- Jaar van publicatie
- 2007
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- Titel
- Take Me to the River
- Ondertitel
- A Wayward and Perilous Journey to the World Series of Poker
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Peter Alson, Brian Koppelman
- Uitgever
- Atria
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2007
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0743288378
- ISBN13
- 9780743288378
- Reeks
- Tags
- Non-fictie, Kinderboeken, Waargebeurde verhalen, Biographies, Sport, Autobiografie en memoires, Verenigde Staten, Biografieën, Spellen, Herinneringen, Activiteiten voor kinderen, Matrimonium, Journalisten, Journalistes, Filosofen, Gokken, Kaartspellen, Poker
- Beoordeling
- 3,85 van 5
- Aantekening
- 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.