{"product_id":"9781429918664","title":"The Biggest Game in Town","description":"\u003cp\u003eAl 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet over the course of one tournament, \u003ci\u003eThe Biggest Game in Town\u003c\/i\u003e 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 poker's 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, Alvarez's classic account is \"the greatest dissection of high-stakes Vegas poker and the madness that surrounds it ever written\" (\u003ci\u003eTimeOut\u003c\/i\u003e [UK]).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127392780528,"sku":"9781429918664","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429918664_p0.jpg?v=1769901808","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429918664","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}