help me ID poker pro memoir I read
 

Around 2001, before the boom kicked off, I came across a memoir on the shelf in Borders Books by a mid-limit grinder. I read most of it in the store, but didn't get around to buying it. Now I'm curious. So the best I can do to identify it is a couple of the anecdotes. He tells of having a female dealer as his significant other. she was also a player, and eventually they started colluding at the table. They got busted when a mark recognized their matching wedding rings. another anecdote was that either he (or someone) did, or joked about, cutting a hole in his pants pocket to j-off while sitting at the table for hours. the main theme of it was the grind of playing midlimits over months and years.

anyone know what this book is?

Re: help me ID poker pro memoir I read
 

[ QUOTE ]
Around 2001, before the boom kicked off, I came across a memoir on the shelf in Borders Books by a mid-limit grinder. I read most of it in the store, but didn't get around to buying it. Now I'm curious. So the best I can do to identify it is a couple of the anecdotes. He tells of having a female dealer as his significant other. she was also a player, and eventually they started colluding at the table. They got busted when a mark recognized their matching wedding rings. another anecdote was that either he (or someone) did, or joked about, cutting a hole in his pants pocket to j-off while sitting at the table for hours. the main theme of it was the grind of playing midlimits over months and years.

anyone know what this book is?

[/ QUOTE ]

it was a section in michael konik's book about the 100k breats i think.

Re: help me ID poker pro memoir I read
 

poker nation by andy bellin ?

chez

Re: help me ID poker pro memoir I read
 

[ QUOTE ]
poker nation by andy bellin ?

chez

[/ QUOTE ]

I think this is right.

Re: help me ID poker pro memoir I read
 

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
poker nation by andy bellin ?

chez

[/ QUOTE ]

I think this is right.

[/ QUOTE ]

this is prolly right, not michael konik's book.

Re: help me ID poker pro memoir I read
 

[ QUOTE ]
another anecdote was that either he (or someone) did, or joked about, cutting a hole in his pants pocket to j-off while sitting at the table

[/ QUOTE ]

I always wondered why the chips at Foxwoods stuck together.

Re: help me ID poker pro memoir I read
 

This is from Poker Nation by Andy Bellin, in the chapter titled "Small-Time Pros." It is about Dicky Horvath.

Re: help me ID poker pro memoir I read
 

thanks, all.