[chessforlife]

I'm on page 195. I LOVE THIS BOOK! Yes, this is truly unique. It's so harshly real. I'm suprised a company had the guts to come out with this. I'd think there would be some lible issues surrounding it. But I guess it's supposed to be fiction, or the writer's opinions that stand outside the bounds of the law.

All my other poker books are of the same dry optomistic charachter, but this is negative. Although at the same time I feel that the guy is having more fun than he lets on. But it's things like this that make it so great. I'm not sure how much of the author is in the charachter.

And it's 3/4 poker hands. I don't agree with all the charachter's plays. That's part of what I was talking about, wondering wether the writer believes all he's writing. maybe it's all correct poker. All and all, there's a lot here to discuss.

But here's one big disappointment: THE BOOK HAS A TON OF TYPOS. There must be at least 25 typos already, and I'm on page 195. I don't know what the hell the proofreader got paid for.

But besides that this is a great, very fun book so far. Very funny, and very realistic and stimulating.

One thing I want to ask is... how much does that average grinding pokerplayer make? because in the book the guy says $40,000 tops. It seems to me that there are people making much more. But the guy also mentions the Hustler Casino as "new.", so it's a bit out dated.

I want to know what the reviewers will say about this book, because it's paints a grim picture of poker, and the magazines of course have to keep poker up beat.