Well, my book, For Richer, For Poorer, about my 20 years playing poker, covers that period when poker changed. Why weren’t there professional poker players until 20 years ago? It sounds great whenever I read it (and I’ve read this book three or four times) I wish I’d been there. There’s a great section where they all get snowed in at some poker club on the East Coast and are stuck there for days. It really brings alive that last phase in poker before the internet came along and caused a revolution – it’s all strange people gambling and bickering in funny little clubs, wearing weird clothes, having odd conversations. It’s very Runyonesque, colloquial and in the present tense. Jesse’s wife is called Mickey and she’s Danish, so it’s sweet. His character is an alter ego called Mickey Dane. He used to be a professional poker player before there was any such thing. He’s so breathy and excitable and funny as a commentator, he doesn’t necessarily sound like he’d be a brilliant, controlled novelist but he really is. Shut Up And Deal is a sort of autobiographical novel by Jesse May, who most people know as a poker commentator. Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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