Check-Rasing the Devil

If you recall, a few weeks ago, I got my smoker friend Amy some Discreet Snus and she gave us a very nice review of it. Now, I’d simply like to pimp her book to try to get her to do another…

Here’s a review excerpt from pokernews.com:

Check-Raising the Devil is a remarkable book that, much like its subject, can be regarded in multiple ways. It is a significant contribution to poker history, providing a detailed chronicle of the last decade of professional poker, a period of dramatic growth documented here from the perspective of one of its central figures. It is an object lesson that warns against the dangers of both drug abuse and other temptations lurking in the shadows of the high-stakes poker world. It is the author’s confession, in a way completing the process of “coming clean” described within. But the book also stands as Matusow’s apologia or self-defense, an attempt to set the record straight and perhaps, as he famously pronounced following his 2005 Tournament of Champions victory, provide for himself some “vindication”.

Also, you can go to her website and tell her you really like her… Try not to be too creepy.