The Making Of A Poker Player How An Ivy League Math Geek Learned To Play Championship Poker

- Author finished third in the 2004 World Poker Tour Championship, winning $706,903.

- Includes chapter about author's experiences playing at the World Poker Tour Championship.

- The 2004 WPT Championship game, featuring the author, was televised on the Travel Channel.

- Foreword by Ben McGrath, staff writer for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town."

- First-person card-playing narratives are extremely popular. Will appeal to readers of Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich (#3 on the New York Times bestselling non-fiction paperback list, 1/22/04), Poker Nation by Andy Bellin, and Positively Fifth Street by James McManus.

- 60-80 million Americans play poker (according to the New York Times).

- Over 2 million people watch weekly poker television shows such as the World Series of Poker