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« on: March 25, 2006, 12:42:07 PM »

Currently reading stu ungar-man behind the shades-great book with some incredible stories-guys a legend and degenerate in the same breath!!!!
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« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2006, 12:57:58 PM »


yeah the book is great


the film on the otherhand.........
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« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2006, 05:51:16 PM »

Haven't read it myself, I'll have to get it. I do recommend Shut Up and Deal, great book and I can't believe that someone who comes over as easy-going as Jesse May wrote such a bleak and cynical story. I'd love to know how much off it was fiction and how much was semi-biographical.
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« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2006, 06:19:00 PM »

Poker Nation by Andy Bellin is a good book.   
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« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2006, 08:20:37 PM »

..........as is Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
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« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2006, 08:26:35 PM »

Prefer, Treasure Island or The strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...
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