The Biggest Game in Town

Al Alvarez touched down in Las Vegas one hot day in 1981 a dedicated amateur poker player but a stranger to the town and its crazy ways. For three mesmerizing weeks he witnessed some of the monster high-stakes games that could only have happened in Vegas and talked to the extraordinary characters who dominated them--road gamblers and local professionals who won and lost fortunes on a regular basis.. Set over the course of one tournament The Biggest Game in Town is botha chronicle of the World Series of Poker--the first ever written--and a portrait of the hustlers madmen and geniuses who ruled the high-stakes game in America. It is a brilliant insight into pokers appeal as a hobby an addiction and a way of life and into the skewed psychology of master players and fearless gamblers. With a new introduction by the author Alvarezs classic account is the greatest dissection of high-stakes Vegas poker and the madness that surrounds it ever written (TimeOut [UK]).