Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of PokerMacmillan, 2004 - 448 páginas In the spring of 2000, Harper's Magazine sent James McManus to Las Vegas to cover the World Series of Poker, in particular the 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. But when McManus arrives, the lure of the tables compels him to risk his entire Harper's advance in a long-shot attempt to play in the tournament himself. This is his deliciously suspenseful account of the tournament--the players, the hand-to-hand combat, his own unlikely progress in it--and the delightfully seedy carnival atmosphere that surrounds it. 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 competitive instincts. |
Índice
THE END | 3 |
DEAD MONEY | 21 |
FAMILY CAREER EVEN LIFE | 35 |
BLACK MAGIC | 69 |
URGE OVERKILL | 87 |
THE POKER OF SCIENCE | 107 |
NOBODY SAID ANYTHING | 125 |
CHICKS WITH DECKS | 149 |
TENSIONDISCHARGE | 269 |
THE LAST SUPPER | 311 |
EITHER WAY | 337 |
ZOMBIES IS BAWTH OF EM | 355 |
TONS AND TONS OF LUCK | 369 |
A GRAY ARIA | 387 |
POKER TERMINOLOGY | 403 |
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DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON | 185 |
BOOKLEARNED | 207 |
ON THE BUBBLE | 223 |
SONG FOR TWO JIMS | 249 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 419 |
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