Best books for entertaining gambling stories?
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LOL. The book you wrote? You really are pathetic.
LMAO, oh Jay.
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List of books mentioned so far:
"Playing Off the Rail" by David McCumber
"Running the Table" by Jon Wertheim (Editor of Sports Illustrated)
"Hustler Days" and "The Hustler and the Champ" both by R.A. Dyer
"Road Player" by Jerry Forsyth
"McGoorty" a hard to find classic by Bob Byrne
"The Bank Shot and Other Great Robberies" (story of Minnesota Fats) by Tom Fox
Read 'Em and Weep" by John Stravinsky
The World's Greatest Gambling Scams" by Richard Marcus
Bet the House by Richard Roeper
Lost Vegas: The Redneck Riviera, Existentialist Conversations with Strippers, and the World Series of Poker---Paul McGuire
"Poker Nation" by Andy Bellin
Knights of the Green Cloth: The Saga of the Frontier Gamblers Robert K. Dearment
Check Raising the Devil, by Mike Matusow
Chasing the Poker Dream: The Qualities of a Successful Poker Player by Joey Ingram
Titanic Thompson by Kevin Cook
Fast Company by Jon Bradshaw
Amarillo Slim, in a world full of fat people
One of a Kind - Stu ungar's story by Nolan Dalla
Casino by Nicholas Pileggi
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker
dostojevsky - the gambler
Mike Sexton's recent book
Poker Wisdom of a Champion - Doyle Brunson
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The Man With The $100,000 Breasts by Michael Konik was a lot of fun to read and I would also recommend The Unsinkable Titanic Thompson by Carlton Stowers.
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Million Dollar Video Poker by Bob Dancer
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I absolutely loved Once a Gambler by NVG legend ChuckBass. Not sure if the 3rd part ever got released though, but first two were seriously good reads.
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Some that havent been mentioned...
Ghosts at the table - he writes stories about 4 different periods in gambling, starting with the old west, then the Mississippi steam boat days i,think, then the texas gamblers, then the new age of internet players. Awesome book.
All in, the (almost) entirely true story of the wsop. Awesome book with great stories.
Cowboys, gamblers and hustlers is good too but might find it a bit slow while hes talking about his rodeo days. The poker stories after that is awesome.
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Gambling Wizard's - Richard Munchkin
Mike sexton's autobiography
Doyle Brunson's According to Doyle
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This is a great thread. I bought three books on amazon used from it. Thank you all.
