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How Six Master Gamblers Constantly Defy the Odds and Always Come Out Winners

Jon Bradshaw

Introduction by Nik Cohn



In this classic book, Jon Bradshaw singled out from the world of full-time gamblers six men who consistently win – the men who year after year, deal after deal and proposition after proposition come away with their pockets filled and their sense of infallibility intact.

Bradshaw follows three legendary poker players - Johnny Moss, Pug Pearson, and Titanic Thompson; tennis player Bobby Riggs; pool player Minnesota Fats and backgammon player Tim Holland. His evocation of ambience and his dramatic description of the games themselves are fascinating but Bradshaw also deftly probes their minds and hearts as he attempts to define what make some men winners and most men losers.

Jon Bradshaw was one of the most distinguished journalists of the 1960s and 1970s – a professional writer and an amateur gambler. He was a regular contributor to Esquire and New York magazines. His other books include Backgammon: The Cruellest Game. He died in 1986
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isbn: 184344013xold
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casing: Paperback
format: A (178 x 111mm)
extent: 193pp
rights: UK & Commonwealth
pub date: May 2003

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CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...It's like watching a poker player bluff his opponents and then draw to an inside straight. And it left me smiling hopelessly, hustled but happy..." - New York Times

"...Whatever happened to reporters who could actually write? Or to writers with the elegantly askew reporter's eye? Jaunty fellows, buccaneer boulevardiers, whose writing seems to have been salvaged from a life close to some rakish edge? Perhaps there never were that many. And now Jon Bradshaw is dead at the unripe age of forty-eight. Damn...." - Vanity Fair

"...A fine rogues gallery of near and complete charlatans – compiled with splendid relish..." - George Plimpton,

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