Excerpt from The Only Way to Play It

Authors

  • Peter Alson Author

Keywords:

Peter Alson, poker, gambling, New York City, novel excerpt

Abstract

In this excerpt from the novel The Only Way to Play It, a poker player sits down at a high-stakes game in a New York club and loses ten thousand dollars on his first hand.

Author Biography

  • Peter Alson

    Peter Alson is the author of six books, including The Only Way To Play It, One of a Kind and The Vig (originally published as Confessions of an Ivy League Bookie). Other books include Atlas, the memoir of colorful boxing trainer Teddy Atlas (Ecco, 2005); Take Me To The River, a Wayward and Perilous Journey to the World Series of Poker (Atria, 2006), which tells the story of Peter’s reckless scheme to pay for his wedding by winning the money in Vegas, and Highway 61, a journal, accompanied by Joe Gioia’s photographs, of a trip down the highway made famous by Bob Dylan. Peter lives with his wife, screenwriter Alice O’Neill, and their daughter, Eden, around the corner from the house where he grew up in Greenwich Village.

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Published

2020-10-15

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2020)

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Alson, Peter. “Excerpt from The Only Way to Play It”. The Mailer Review, vol. 14, no. 1, Oct. 2020, pp. 316–320, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/754.