”Simple truth: The more you know about your opponents, the less you know about their play, because poker is not self-expression. It’s all hustle and dazzle. Every poker player has a deceptive poker persona and an even more deceptive game. I know hard-ass wise guys who play like anxious librarians, and anxious librarians who will whack you off at the knees. So trust this: Any personality you detect within a hundred yards of a poker game is guaranteed fiction.”
Citerat ur ”The Suicide King ” av Dave Hickey i Bookforum, april/maj 2014. Han recenserar The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death (Doubleday) av ingen mindre än Colson Whitehead. Hickeys recension är väldigt uppskattande och underhållande med sin utstuderat hårdkokta stil.
Ola Wihlke
