Book: The Making Of A Poker Player: How An Ivy League Math Geek Learned To Play Championship Poker Finishing third in the 2004 World Poker Tour Championship and winning over $700,000, Matros pens this first-person narrative on how he changed from math geek to successful poker player.
- Author finished third in the 2004 World Poker Tour Championship, winning $706,903.
- Includes chapter about author's experiences playing at the World Poker Tour Championship.
- The 2004 WPT Championship game, featuring the author, was televised on the Travel Channel.
- Foreword by Ben McGrath, staff writer for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town."
- First-person card-playing narratives are extremely popular. Will appeal to readers of Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich (#3 on the New York Times bestselling non-fiction paperback list, 1/22/04), Poker Nation by Andy Bellin, and Positively Fifth Street by James McManus.
- 60-80 million Americans play poker (according to the New York Times).
- Over 2 million people watch weekly poker television shows such as the World Series of Poker
Details of Book: The Making Of A Poker Player: How An Ivy League Math Geek Learned To Play Championship Poker Book: The Making Of A Poker Player: How An Ivy League Math Geek Learned To Play Championship Poker
Author: Matt Matros
ISBN: 0818406429
ISBN-13: 9780818406423
, 978-0818406423
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2005/04/30
Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp
Number of Pages: 286
Language: English