![]() ![]() In 2013, he released Pondlife is a journal of his swims since. '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 's quite brilliant' Time Out 'This is a magnificent book. According to the aforementioned, Biggest Game in Town, Al Alvarez played poker every Tuesday. ![]() It's a world that seems almost too surprising and bizarre to be true. Uncovering an exotic underground rich in ambiance and eccentricity, The Biggest Game in Town is a real one of a kind, deftly capturing the skewed psyches and peculiar rites of professional poker players who descend every year for the World Series of Poker. 71 The final scorecard was controversial as many observers considered it far too wide. Acclaimed writer and critic Al Alvarez delves into the murky and compelling world of high-stakes Vegas poker, where 'the next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing'. In a very close and competitive fight that went to a split decision, Álvarez came out on top with two judges scoring 115113 in favor of each fighter and the final judge scoring 117111 in favor of Álvarez. Since its first publication twenty years ago, The Biggest Game in Town has become a sought-after cult classic. ![]()
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