Show one's hand

Author: James McManus (USA), translated by Shi Qing
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: In May 2000, Las Vegas, the gambling capital. The 31st World Poker Championship, the largest in the world, was about to begin. At the same time, the judgment of the preliminary examination panel on the mysterious death of the former host of the championship, Dee Brenner, was also under close scrutiny. James McManus, a novelist and poet from Chicago, was sent to Las Vegas by Harper's magazine to cover the competition and closely monitor the murder trial. With a lifelong love for poker games, the author, carrying the advance payment from the magazine, walked into the Carousel Casino where the championship was held. How could he not seize the opportunity to give it a shot. And so, a card table battle and grand showdown filled with wisdom, courage, deception, and luck, intertwined between hell and Dante, strippers and gangsters, lawyers and forensic experts, and science and gambling, was launched.