Big Deal: One Year As A Professional Poker Player

'Big Deal' is the mesmerising story of a year spent by bestselling biographer Anthony Holden in the tough world of the professional poker player. He spent days and nights in the poker paradise of Las Vegas, in Malta and Morocco, even on board a ship, mingling with the legendary greats, sharpening his game, perfecting his repartee and learning a great deal about himself in the process.

Poker, Holden insists, is not gambling. Like chess, it is a paradigm of life at its most intense; a gladiatorial contest that brings out the best as well as the worst in people. Its heroes, its eccentrics and its comedians stalk the pages of this remarkable book, along with all the hair raising, nail-biting excitement of the games themselves.