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Friday, November 20, 2009

57 Books from the University Book Sale: Book 16

Title: The Education of a Poker Player (Cardinal, 1961)
Author: Herbert O. Yardley
Cover artist: N/A

Yours for: SOLD (11/21/09)

BERJAYA
  • I love this book. Design is impeccable. Vegas/neon-style font = total WIN.
  • All poker players should look like this guy. Those douchebags on ESPN2 make me want to stay as far away from the game as possible, but I would sit next to Fred Mertz here.
  • "Lusty!?" — not a word I would have associated with this guy, but OK. Good for him.
BERJAYA
  • OMG it's an interactive quiz cover!
  • "One Big Pair" — see "Lusty," front cover.

Page 142 (page 123 is a buncha technical poker stuff) ~

The only kibitzers were Maria, Bing, who spied on foreigners, and a Polish girl who broadcast Chinese propaganda — for what reason I could never understand, but then most foreigners managed to get on the Chinese payroll.


~RP

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