Fast Company How Six Master Gamblers Defy the Odds - and Always Win

by Bradshaw, Jon; Cohn, Nik

• ISBN13: 9781843440130
• ISBN10: 184344013X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: High Stakes

Summary

Poker players Johnny Moss, Pug Pearson, and Titanic Thompson; tennis player Bobby Riggs; pool player Minnesota Fats; and backgammon player Tim Holland have come away with their pockets filled and their sense of infallibility intact. The dramatic descriptions of the ambience and the games are riveting, but more intriguingly, Jon Bradshaw deftly probes these gamblers' minds and hearts as he attempts to define what makes some men winners and most losers.

Author Biography

Jon Bradshaw was one of the most distinguished journalists of the 60s and 70s -- a professional writer and an amateur gambler. He was a regular contributor to Esquire and New York magazines

Table of Contents

Preface	p. i
Introduction	p. 1
Pug Pearson	p. 9
Minnesota Fats	p. 79
Tim Holland	p. 127
Johnny Moss	p. 145
Titanic Thompson	p. 197
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