This page features an index to some famous literary treatments of the World Series of Poker, which are excerpted, reprinted, or linked to from here.

Below that, view a short bibliography and see options for learning more about books on the famous tournament.

Excerpts from larger works

from The Hand I Played: A Poker Memoir, David Spanier

from The Biggest Game in Town, A. Alvarez

from The Man with the $100,000 Breasts and Other Gambling Stories, Michael Konick

from Gentleman Gambler, "Oklahoma Johnny" Hale

 

Links to other articles

Jim Mc Manus. "Fortune's Smile" in Harper's Magazine.

Peter Ruckman. "Positively Fifth Street" (article about Jim McManus).

"World Series of Poker: Where Nostalgia Meets Cutting Edge" from RGT Online.

Oklahoma Johnny Hale. "The World Series of Poker and the Seniors World Championship"

Michael Konik. "The Grand Old Man of Poker" from Cigar Aficionado.

Ben Oliver. "Four Days, Three Million Dollars."

How to Prepare for the 2004 WSOP.

Alvarez, A. The Biggest Game in Town. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Bellin, Andy. Poker Nation: A High-Stakes, Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country. New York: Harper Collins, 2002.

Cloutier, T. J., and Tom McEvoy. Championship no-limit and pot-limit hold'em: On the Road to the World Series of Poker. Cardsmith Publications.

McManus, James. Positively Fifth Street.: Murderers, Cheetah's and Binion's World Series of Poker. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

Smith, Raymond. The Poker Kings of Las Vegas. Dublin: Aherlow, 1982.

Spanier, David. The Hand I Played: A Poker Memoir. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2000.

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