We Run Bad
by John Curry
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Pub Date May 29 2018 | Archive Date Aug 05 2018
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Description
America's in the throes of the Great Recession, and Tim's dreams of flipping a house have collapsed along with the housing market. After abandoning his new home as a lost cause, he's caught up in the poker craze and moves to Atlantic City with a new dream of "playing poker for a living", but soon finds himself stuck in a dizzying spell of bad luck at the card tables. Or maybe he just sucks at poker, like everybody else. His money all gone, and finding that it's actually difficult to drink oneself to death at 1am, he's suddenly offered a chance to make his money back, and then some, by running an underground poker game in New York City. Once in New York, Tim finds himself on the road to recovery and making real money for the first time—but at what cost?
We Run Bad offers an authentic and darkly comic look at underground poker culture, while serving up an indictment of post-recession America. Here, every game is rigged, and the only way to come out ahead is to be the one doing the rigging.
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| ISBN | 9781732411203 |
| PRICE | $2.99 (USD) |
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Paul F, Reviewer
Author, John Curry, pulled no punches with a colorful narrative filled with expletives and street jargon. As for me, his style of writing worked; it was fascinating reading. Given a charge of adrenaline, the scenes rushed forward at break-neck speed. From beginning to end, the well-written topsy-turvy action never slowed nor failed to amuse.
Down on his luck, Tim, staggered through a decadent life with a bottle of booze in one hand, illegal narcotics in the other. Fast food carried him through from one day to the next. A career choice had been made. He left the real estate market behind to enter the world of professional gambling. In his case - professional losing.
Initially, that fortuitous move proved to be disastrous. In record time, almost every penny to his name had been lost in high stakes poker. As far as he was concerned, it didn't really matter; he had his drugs, booze and cigarettes to ease his crumbling world. This was not the American dream he had envisioned.
He bounced between New York City and Atlantic City. That's where the action took him. Try as he might, his life was on a continual downward spiral. Living one day to the next, this was the unfortunate life that he found himself sucked into. There was no ending, just another bottle of whiskey, one more line of nose candy. He made his bed...
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