Fast Company

By Jon Bradshaw,

Book cover of Fast Company: How Six Master Gamblers Defy the Odds - and Always Win

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In this classic book, Jon Bradshaw singled out from the world of full-time gamblers six men who consistently win - the men who year after year, deal after deal and proposition after proposition come away with their pockets filled and their sense of infallibility intact.

Bradshaw follows three legendary pokerā€¦

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1 author picked Fast Company as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Really fun true stories about six gambling legends. Titanic Thompson never entered an official PGA event, yet made more money playing golf than most of the top pros in his era, often by beating the famous pros at their own game. Minnesota Fats never won a major pool tournament, but made so much money traveling from city to city to hustle the local pool sharks he became a legend in the Midwest pool halls. Johnny Moss cut his gambling teeth in illegal poker games in Texas and Oklahoma, then went on to win the first two World Series of Pokerā€¦

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