Yeah I'm waiting for full book in paper format.

Love your writing bro. Some feedback:

The frequency of typos increased towards the last quarter of this. Think I spotted four in the second half and zero in the first. Some phrases were a little bit repetitive but overall I really enjoy the flow of your storytelling. Really want to get my hands on the second part asap when s that coming out?

Thanks You'll hear when the full book is out, the latter parts are gonna make poker forums explode for sure. And yeah the plan is to put out the trilogy as a combination paperback and possibly/hopefully hardcover. I do think the parts stand on their own quite well though, especially #1. Since it was my first published book I wanted to ensure that I'd be happy with it artistically even if the trilogy never got published, and I think it works on its own really well. Also, I'm really oldschool when it comes to books too and I can totally understand wanting to wait for the paper format



Hey, I heard from Deeeeepz you were asking about the book earlier so I've been anticipating your review! Slightly butthurt it took you over a week

Yeah the typos are so annoying. I'm afraid four isn't even the full picture, I'm fairly sure the total tally is 11. They are all fixed now (so if you redownload the book, or if anyone buys it now, they are gone) but it's ridiculous how they managed to end up there despite hundreds of hours of proofreading. I must have read the whole thing 100 times and it's hilarious how blind you become after you've seen the same piece of text too many times. And I had many pairs of eyes read through it not to mention a Duke-educated professional editor... yet there's a spot where it said "orance" instead of "orange" in the initial version we put out. Somehow none of the proofreading software that should catch easy stuff like that caught it either. In a way I'm alright with a few typos - part 1 alone has 568,065 characters, so if 11 of them are wrong, that sounds like something I can live with. But still spotting just one typo really sends me over the edge and makes me want to shoot little birds with a shotgun so I really hope there won't be any more discovered. The worst thing about it is that having a single typo gives out such an unprofessional image, even though I genuinely feel like we went to great lengths to ensure there won't be any and did our everything. It especially sucks with a project like this, since I assume that the key deterrent to most people is thinking it's not a "real" book since it started out as an internet thread and it's hard trying to convince them otherwise. SIGH.


I don't have a precise timeline for #2 so I'm just going to say "spring 2016". There's roughly 2-3 weeks of intense work left that I need to do with my editor, which I was hoping to be able to get done in the weeks after the release of #1, but it turns out that was overly optimistic. I thought writing it was hard but it's this aftermath that's really driving me nuts - it's so nerve-wracking waiting to hear back from people who've read it, trying to figure out ways to get people to give it a chance without having to whore myself out to the media and so on. I have a professional reviewer from a mainstream (non-poker related) media reading it atm and I can't get anything done just waiting for that email alone. I thought that once I'd be finished I could kinda sit back and enjoy the fruits of my work but it's quite the opposite, honestly I'm so ****ing drained by this whole thing that I had to postpone the post-production of #2 until I've recharged some batteries - I'm going to Cuba and NYC for a bit soon and I'm gonna turn my phone off for a few weeks to get my mind off all the stress. After that I'd anticipate to start working on the finishing touches very soon, but it'll already be late March before I'm even back from NYC. Oh and, I'm also homeless so gotta figure out where the hell I'm actually going to do this work, haha.

By the way, were you (directed at both blakkman and everyone else) annoyed by the lack of directly poker-related stuff in part 1? This is really interesting to me, since I was expecting a lot of people to have a problem with that yet I haven't heard a single complaint yet - I think I play my first hand of poker about 50% through the book. Obviously the other two are very poker heavy though.



Side note: Jasper from the story is starring on "Vikings" currently, pretty cool. He's the guy on the right:

Heya I just suck at binge reading so spread it over a week but thoroughly enjoyed the writing all over. Thing is I can relate to a LOT of what you wrote so took some extra time remembering that part of my life as well. It's funny how ppl from so different backgrounds have so much in common review is obv entirely positive considering I be been a fanboy ever since this thread started, no surprises there

Wrt poker hands. Fk it this is a biography, couldn't care less about the actual poker unless some life changing hands happen that obv need to be described I d actually prefer the style u used up until now. I m on this forum so can easily get my share of poker talk outside of my recreational reading

Haha ya I was obviously joking about taking a week to read. It's funny how many people have messaged me they can relate with this and that part of the book, I didn't think I'd have made myself sound like someone you'd necessarily want to relate to

But yeah, thanks for taking time to write & review blakkman, it's really important to me to hear back from people. Good luck at the pokers too, I'll throw a friendly 3bet or two your way today!

The first 30 or so pages are available for free on Amazon, btw. Just click "Send a free sample" on the right. It's kinda annoyingly long but it's an Amazon feature I can't control. I wish it would be just 10 pages or something, but at least that big of a sample should definitely give people a good idea if it's the kind of content they'd like or not - some legit degen stuff in there. I'd be very happy just to have people try out the sample and tell me what they thought, regardless of if they buy the whole thing or not.

Read the sample from start to finish (skipping the first chapter as you had already posted it here) in one sitting which is pretty rare for me, I get distracted extremely easy.

I definitely appreciate the honesty in the writing even if it made me laugh and feel a bit sorry for you at the same time for running away from your first date

I for sure empathize with a lot of the gambling stories/feelings you explain which I think I'm on your page here is not a good thing at all lol.

Definitely love the writing style and as I said will buy the full book. Although I have probably read a lot of what is contained in the Part 1 anyway reading this has definitely made me contemplate buying it piece by piece anyway which I will probably do anyway as its only $8 or whatever it is.

Congrats on finally getting it published Miikka even if it took 12 years to happen and I look forward to reading more.

where does the book pick up vs your last entry in this one?

I am still wondering who the angry poster in the forum was and what he wrote for example

Gracias bro First date story is definitely pretty funny, even though also pretty tragic. That theme (funny/tragic) seems to describe many of my adult relationships, too, as is described in the book



Timeline-wise, book #1 is ~70% before this thread, 30% the early chapters ITT. Book #2 is more or less the rest of the timeline documented ITT, and book #3 is almost entirely new stuff. Not the optimal business decision to cut it like that, and also to not use cliffhangers, but I wanted people who don't care for my writing but feel plot committed to at least be able to get a resolution by having to buy only the last bit.

Was looking forward to this book. But let us wait so long and than put in 3 parts is just so ****ing ultra lame that i cant buy it out anger now. Especialy when all the new content will be in book 3... like wtf man.

I have no problem with this, but just to point out a couple of things:

-It took so long simply because the ~2,5 years I spent writing and editing it is how long it took for me. I didn't want to release anything I wouldn't be completely satisfied with. Obviously I could've released a half-assed effort in like 6 months or something but I didn't want to do that. It's not like I was sitting on my ass lol'ing and took so long on purpose - I'm sure it would've sold better 2 years ago too.

-As mentioned before, you can also just buy the full book in one piece. The three part setting is mainly exactly for the reason that people who just want a resolution can get away with it very cheaply without needing to commit to a full book, of all things I didn't think that would've drawn criticism?

-It is all new content. I can't help the fact that I've exposed some of the events in this thread before, which happen to be somewhat key to the story - it's not like I had a chance to ignore all these events and write a book that included none of the stuff mentioned ITT. But it's all written completely from scratch, and both books 1 and 3 overlay with this thread's events very little if at all. There's a free ~30 page sample on the Amazon page of the book (search for my name=Miikka Anttonen to find it easiest), feel free to read it even if you have zero intent to ever pay for the content It's at least all completely new stuff for your enjoyment and hopefully should be enough to point out that no part of the book is a re-enactment of this thread.

definitely worth reading, I really enjoyed the book a lot! Full review of part 1 in my blog, link in profile

Tweeted u asking if the content will be pretty much repeated from this thread but u didn't reply. Guess it's okay as I got the answer frm ur above post now

Hey,

Are you sure you tweeted the right person? My twitter is chuckbasspoker. I'm pretty sure I never got your tweet, I rechecked the whole feed from the release (2,5 weeks ago) onwards and still couldn't find anything. If you tweeted a while ago it's possible I may have missed it as for quite a while there I didn't really follow twitter at all. Anyway, sorry if I somehow missed this!

And yeah, short answer is that timeline-wise part 1 is ~70% before this thread / stuff not mentioned here, part 2 is largely this thread, part 3 is new stuff. The writing itself is 100% from the scratch and I have so far yet to hear a single person say that they thought it reminded them of the thread too much, but naturally some of the events (especially #2) are already repeated here from a pure plot pov, not much I can do about that.

The first 30 or so pages are readable for free on Amazon, you can also download the sample on Kindle to see yourself The easiest way to find it is to search for my name (Miikka Anttonen).

Yup @chuckbasspoker. 23hrs ago from now. It's alright though, don't worry about it. Is the entire book out or is it just part 1 for now? Will support you but would prefer to buy the entire book instead.

Super weird, it still doesn't show up in my notifications or feed, this is the last 3 days:



I hope this isn't happening more, if someone's tweeted at me and I haven't responded then this is why


Just part 1 is out now. The full book (also in print) will come out in ~3 months

SO we can only buy Part 1 ? When's the rest coming out

Part 1 is out now, part 2 will be in about 5 weeks, part 3 (and whole book as a paperback as well) should be out in time for WSOP. I don't have exact dates but roughly that. I wrote a bit more about this in post 1978, I'm on my cell phone and can't copypaste it here currently.

Also, if any 2p2ers are in Cuba next week, holla and let's get some beers and/or mojitos. Will be doing a minibudget backpacking type of excursion around the country with my friend Yusef who's mentioned in the book a few times.

Maybe it's ur settings? Receive tweets from people u do not follow or smth?

Btw will u be going to the series this year?

It's definitely not that, I barely follow anyone and still get other people's tweets in the notifications. I think it has to be some glitch.

No plans to go to the WSOP, but I don't even know in which continent I'll be living in next month. If I'm in the Americas in late May I'll probably go and play a couple of things very early into the series. But I doubt I can be arsed to travel over there from Europe, just like every year. Summer activities in Europe >>> withering away in Vegas for me.

ChuckBass,

Great job on getting your book out! ****ing A!

This is the only thread on 2p2 that I ever subscribed to, so it was hilarious getting updates over the last four years, including all the bloody trolling. I was rooting for you all along, and it's great to see that you didn't let them discourage you from getting your book done.

I have a kindle so I went straight to amazon to get it, can't wait for you to release part 2 & 3!

I have a quick question The book on amazon, is it about the same stories you posted in this thread, or it is written in a different way, including other stories ?

Thanks

Completely new.

Full book out yet?

I can't believe that's how you ended it. Cold man, damn cold.

Sorry, I hadn't noticed this. The second part came out a few days ago, the third and last part is still a few months away.


Haha yeah, believe it or not that wasn't intentional - I just got around to actually writing the book at that same time and decided to focus on that. At least you can get all the anwers in book form

For what it's worth, I've been thinking about finishing this thread in some way. I just don't know how to actually do it because it'd spoil the book obviously, and I hate how bad my writing is in this thread / I don't want people to think that my writing here reflects my writing in the book etc... so I don't see it happening in the near future, but I do feel indebted to this thread to some extent and I would like to find a way to finish it at some point.

Here's a little spoiler in picture form though to give you an idea how it all ends: