{"product_id":"the-biggest-game-in-town-9780747562993","title":"The Biggest Game in Town","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTakes us inside the World Poker Tour and captures the skewed psyches and peculiar rites of professional poker players who descend every year for the World Series of Poker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A cool, precise, sharply witty, vivid evocation of a place and people, their appearances, behaviour and speech..Mr Alvarez is a shrewd analyst of the psychology of gamblers and a cleverly selective recorder of their bizarre talk with which, directly and indirectly, they reveal their secure grasp of unreality and their insane courage' Sunday Telegraph; 'It will have most readers sitting on the edge of their seats' Sunday Times; 'A new classic on gambling...it's quite brilliant' Time Out; 'This is a magnificent book. Beyond the straights and full houses, Alvarez has written about people who are extremely good at what they do, and about America' San Francisco Chronicle","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51926112469335,"sku":"9780747562993","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780747562993.jpg?v=1760622177","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-biggest-game-in-town-9780747562993","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}