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Recommendation of The Wager by David Grann for readers who enjoyed Phil Ivey's biography, based on themes of risk, human limits, and moral ambiguity
Phil Ivey’s high-profile edge‑sorting disputes with casinos produced clear legal penalties — lawsuits, withheld or forfeited winnings, and settlements — and provoked an enduring ethical debate about g...
A reader who enjoyed a Phil Ivey biography for its high-stakes psychology, strategy and inside look at competitive gambling will find points of overlap with David Grann’s The Wager—both are non-fictio...
David Grann’s signature prose—immersive, spare, and theatrically structured—both reflects and amplifies the kinds of subjects he chooses: buried histories, obsessive characters, crimes and mysteries t...
Phil Ivey’s edge‑sorting saga is a contest over rules, agency and commercial norms where elite skill collided with civil courts that ultimately labeled the tactic cheating ; David Grann’s The Wager (b...
Readers seeking books about poker or gamblers that capture the same propulsive, narrative-nonfiction energy that made David Grann’s The Wager a hit should look for well-reported, character-driven acco...