[I am fish]

I enjoyed all of the following...

Poker Nation by Andy Bellin

Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich

Big Deal by Anthony Holden

I know Mason did not give Poker Nation a good review saying that it represented poker players as degenerates, but I really enjoyed it. I imagine the author is writing from his actual experiences from which he had the underground poker clubs... and if I was grinding it out at the tables for a small living, I'd be doing massive amounts of drugs too.

Mason also didn't like Bringing Down the House. I really enjoyed it. That said, I didn't know anything about blackjack whatsover. And being in my mid twenties, there is an appeal to the glam of being in college and smuggling hundreds of thousands of dollars strapped to your body through airports. Living a glamorous lifestyle being a kid and hanging around celebrities and hookers and living it up in luxury suites.

I think younger readers will be more drawn to those two books.