Positively Fifth Street

"It's a safe wager that professional poker players aren't very good writers, but it's also better than even money that adept writers are, or could be, cunning poker players, for they come to understand motive and risk and instinctively realize that you can't win if you don't bet. James McManus bet big and won. His POSITIVELY FIFTH STREET, an exhilarating chronicle of the 2000 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, will go on the shelf with the classic that inspired it, THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN, A. Alvarez's account of the 1981 event.McManus, James is the author of 'Positively Fifth Street ' with ISBN 9780312422523 and ISBN 0312422520.