Customer Reviews

Fascinating!!!!! - By: J. Mellor, 21 Jan 2007
This is one of the best gambling books I have ever read & is a true story. The story behind it is thatin 2001, a stranger from Texas entered the high-stakes poker roomin the Bellagio casinoin Las Vegas & challenged the world's top poker pros to a series of heads up, high stakes cash games whichin the end resultedin millions of dollars on the table. All the names are familiar from all the various poker shows on TV (except the stranger!)

The writer has obtained access to all the characters involved & gotten everyone's side of the story & re-constructed what happened over a period of challenges covering three years.

It is fascinating how the challenger, a very wealthy banker, won & lost millions of dollars & played, beat & also lost to many of the worlds top players. How he constantly tried to improve his game & pit his bankroll against the wits of the top pros. How he proved that even pros can be made to feel twitchy when they are re-raised into a multi million dollar pot

He certainly didn't do it for the money & appears he wanted to prove to himself that the pros could be broken.

The question is - what was the outcome?

For anyone interestedin gambling stories, again, this is highly recommended.