Broke

Excellent entertaining and extremely well written . I couldn't stop reading!-<B>Phil Hellmuth poker icon and author of <I>Play Poker Like the Pros</I></B></P>Forget Wall Street-America's best and brightest now seek their fortunes at the poker tables. <I>Broke: A Poker Novel</I> follows the lives of three talented young poker players as they chase fame and fortune in a world fraught with addiction.</P>Raf Verheij is a twenty-five-year-old match prodigy who likes to think that his current situation is unique: poker pulled him out of a deep hole instead of leading him into one. Robert Thompson is a player who has an almost supernatural ability-reading opponents' hands by taking cues from their body language-and a huge gambling problem. And finally there's Matt Ingram a grinder with a penchant for all things self-destructive.</P>It's a world where the individual has to worry less about the problems that others will cause him than the problems that he will cause for himself. <I>Broke</I> looks into the lives of Raf Robert and Matt in their high-stakes quest for gaining poker legend status and reveals just how addictive and dangerous the world of poker can be to one's bankroll and mental health.</P>