A review by rbixby
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker by James McManus

5.0

This is a very intense book. McManus writes the poker scenes with a sparse intensity that left me on the edge of my seat. He mixes it with long dissertations on the Ted Binion murder trial he was there to cover for Harper's, intellectual musings on the interconnectedness of no-limit hold-em to the deep contradictions in human nature.

I really enjoyed this one. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the deeper inner workings of tournament poker.