Peter Alson


Take Me to the River

─ A Wayward and Perilous Journey to the World Series of Poker

Alson, Peter | TAKE ME TO THE RIVER : ─ A Wayward and Perilous Journey to the World Series of Poker


BoklivArtikelnr: 9780743288361

En personlig berättelse om en man som konfronterar livets utmaningar genom poker och reflektioner kring åldrandet och engagemang.

  • Take Me to the River utforskar livet som pokerspelare.

  • En humoristisk och gripande berättelse om mognad.

  • Utgiven som förlagsband, 2006.

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Bindning: Förlagsband

Bokförlag: Använd 81764/New Leaf Distributing Company
ISBN: 9780743288361

Omfång: 290 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2006-07-01

Förlagets information

An overeducated underachiever, he's spent his postcollege decades doing his best not to grow up. Now, having just turned the incomprehensible (to him) age of fifty, and staring down his own mortality, this rambling- gambling bachelor decides it's time to settle down. After years of equivocating, he pops the question to his longtime girlfriend. A wedding date is set for just after Labor Day, and to pay for it, a plan is hatched involving poker and a trip to Vegas. Alson boards a plane bound for the neon desert on his way to the biggest game in town, the 2005 World Series of Poker. Thus begins Take Me to the River, a first-person account of one inveterate gambler and bad boy's quest to grow up while at the same time compete with more than 5,000 players vying for over $56 million in prize money during a scorching Vegas summer. Take Me to the River is a hilarious, heart-wrenching tale of Las Vegas and an exploration of what it means to be part of one of the fastest-growing and most popular sports in the United States, at the moment of its apogee, and of the lessons that poker has to teach about probability and luck, good and bad fortune, patience, perseverance, and – most fitting for a man with marriage in his near future – commitment. "I finished the Peter Alson book, Take Me to the River. I have to say, it is a ... great book. I highly recommend it once it's out in stores. I also will probably read the other books from Atria. It's refreshing to read a poker book that is about the game, but not about how to play the game. I'm still feeling like the how to books are not really in my best interest right now. Really though, it's just that those How To books just don't keep my interest long enough to be useful, and I half-adopt their ideas, hurting my usual game." – High on Poker Blog Site


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Vanliga frågor om Take Me to the River av Peter Alson

Boken handlar om Peter Alsons personliga resa till World Series of Poker, där han tävlar för att finansiera sitt bröllop, samtidigt som den utforskar livets osäkerhet och lärdomarna från poker.

Boken riktar sig både till pokerentusiaster och allmänna läsare som är intresserade av livets val och dess konsekvenser.

Det antikvariska exemplaret är ett förlagsband, har ett omfång av 290 sidor och publicerades av New Leaf Distributing Company den 1 juli 2006.

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