Positively Fifth Street Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker

Name: Positively Fifth Street Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker
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ISBN: 9780374236489

ISBN-10: 0374236488

ISBN-13: 9780374236489

Edition: 2003

Authors: James McManus

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Rough sex, black magic, murder, and the science—and eros—of gambling meet in the ultimate book about Las Vegas James McManus was sent to Las Vegas by Harper’s to cover the World Series of Poker in 2000, especially the mushrooming progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament’s prodigal host, purportedly done in by a stripper and her boyfriend with a technique so outreacute; it took a Manhattan pathologist to identify it. Whether a jury would convict the attractive young couple was another story altogether. McManus risks his entire Harper’s advance in a long-shot attempt to play in the tournament himself. Only with actual table experience, he…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/16/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

James "Jim" McManus was born March 22 1951, in Manhattan. He is an American poker player, teacher and writer living in Kenilworth, Illinois. McManus is best known as the author of the book Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker. The book is based on his trip to Las Vegas to cover the progress of women in the 2000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the death of Ted Binion. McManus continues to play live poker when not teaching and raising two young daughters with his second wife, Jennifer Arra.



The End


Dead Money


Family, Career, Even Life


Black Magic


Urge Overkill


The Poker of Science


Nobody Said Anything


Chicks with Decks


Death in the Afternoon


Book-Learned


On the Bubble


Song for Two Jims


Tension-Discharge


The Last Supper


Either Way


Zombies is Bawth of 'Em


Tons and Tons of Luck


Poker Terminology


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index