The Moneymaker Effect - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moneymaker Effect write by Eric Raskin. This book was released on 2014-06-01. The Moneymaker Effect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the story behind the most dramatic World Series of Poker ever and its lasting effects, told by the players, the TV execs, the tournament directors, techs, writers, and the 2003 WSOP champ himself, Chris Moneymaker. Moneymaker, an amateur poker player with a name too good to be true, defied the odds to win the 2003 WSOP main event, just as the twin inventions of online poker and the hole-card camera simultaneously arrived to revolutionize a game long-relegated to smoky bars and living rooms. More than a decade later, with the online-poker world in an ongoing state of flux, the "Moneymaker effect" continues to reverberate while the recollections and insights of the more than 30 eye-witness contributors remain as relevant and insightful as ever, whether you're a player yourself or simply interested in a great real-life narrative.
Moneymaker
Moneymaker - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moneymaker write by Chris Moneymaker. This book was released on 2005-02. Moneymaker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dreams do come true, as seen in this incredible true tale of a humble amateurwho beat the odds to win millions with a deck of cards.
Toxic Masculinity, Casino Capitalism, and America's Favorite Card Game
Toxic Masculinity, Casino Capitalism, and America's Favorite Card Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toxic Masculinity, Casino Capitalism, and America's Favorite Card Game write by Andrew Manno. This book was released on 2020-02-19. Toxic Masculinity, Casino Capitalism, and America's Favorite Card Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Poker is a centuries-old American game. Why has it become so popular in the twenty-first century? What does current interest in the game tell us about ourselves and some of our most pressing social issues? In this timely and thought-provoking book, Andrew Manno offers important insights into the intersection of gaming, gender, and capitalism that illuminate how the shift to a casino capitalist economy—combined with a culture of toxic masculinity—impacts workers and how it has led to the rise of populism in the United States that manifested in the 2016 election of Donald Trump.
Sporting Rhetoric
Sporting Rhetoric - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sporting Rhetoric write by Barry Brummett. This book was released on 2009. Sporting Rhetoric available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Millions of people around the world are engaged in sports and games. This volume studies the ways in which engagement is performed in popular culture. We do not just watch football - we perform by being a fan. NBA players do not simply run up and down the court. Instead, on and off the court they perform certain roles, many informed by hip hop culture. Such performances are rhetorical: they manage attitudes, behaviors, and predispositions, influencing the distribution of power. Competitive hot dog eaters, bull riding, and Mexican wrestlers are some of the other sports and games covered by the contributors. The book is unique in bringing together the three themes of sports and games, performance, and the rhetoric of popular culture, and is relevant for both scholarly use and classroom adoption in courses ranging from sport and society, rhetoric, composition, persuasion and argument, and popular culture.
Swimming With The Devilfish
Swimming With The Devilfish - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Swimming With The Devilfish write by Des Wilson. This book was released on 2015-11-19. Swimming With The Devilfish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott has taken the poker world by storm since beginning to play at the age of 16. A world-class player, he is one of the most feared players on the ever-burgeoning global poker circuit. The Devilfish is a working-class man from Hull who was a petty criminal at 16, a safe-breaker who spent his 21st birthday in prison, and then a pawnbroker in Hull who’s turned his gambling hobby into a hugely lucrative career. Dave Ulliott was the first British player to win a $500,000 poker event in the US, won the first Late Night Poker series on Channel 4, and is the face of Ultimatebet.com, one of the biggest online poker sites. This powerful and revealing book uncovers the amazing world of professional poker in Britain, and for the first time tells the extraordinary stories of the country’s top poker professionals. It is a must-read for anyone who is part of, or fascinated by, the growth of professional poker from yesterday’s illegal back-street card games to the cyberspace and television phenomenon of today.
