Take Me To The River: A Wayward and Perilous Journey to the World Series of Poker

An overeducated underachiever Peter Alson spent his post-college decades doing his best not to grow up. But having just turned fifty this rambling-gambling bachelor decides its time to settle down. So he pops the question to his longtime girlfriend then hatches a plan to pay for their wedding -- involving poker and a trip to Las Vegas. Boarding a plane bound for the neon desert and the biggest game in town -- the 2005 World Series of Poker -- this inveterate gambler and bad boy stares down his past and his future while competing for over $56 million in prize money. Take Me to the River is a hilarious wrenching full-tilt Vegas exploration of one mans obsession with poker and the lessons it has to offer -- about probability and luck good fortune and bad patience perseverance and -- most fitting for a man with marriage in his near future -- commitment.