Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker
- ISBN-10
- 078625727X
- ISBN-13
- 9780786257270
- Category
- Large type books
- Pages
- 700
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Author
- James McManus
Description
In the spring of 2000. Harper's Magazine sent James McManus to Las Vegas to cover the World Series of Poker -- in particular, the mush-rooming progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament's prodigal host, purportedly done in by a stripper and her boyfriend with a technique so outre it took a Manhattan pathologist to identify it. Whether a jury would convict the attractive young couple was another story altogether. But when McManus sets foot in town, the lure of the tables is too strong: he proceeds to risk his entire Harper's advance in a long-shot attempt to play in the tournament himself. Only with actual experience at the table (he tells his skeptical wife) can he capture the hair-raising subtleties of the kind of poker that determines the world champion. The heart of the book is his deliciously suspenseful account of the tournament itself -- the players, the hands, and his own unlikely progress in it. Written in the tradition of The Gambler and The Biggest Game in Town. Positively Fifth Street is a high-stakes adventure, and a terrifying but often hilarious account of one man's effort to understand what Edward O. Wilson has called "Pleistocene exigencies" -- the eros and logistics of our primary competitive instincts. Book jacket.
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- 2007-04-01
- 416 pages
- Ebook
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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- 2004-03
- 448 pages
- Paperback
- Macmillan
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