![]() ![]() Connoisseurship was Alvarez’s line, not performance.” Fellow Poker Authors Weigh In It was in The Savage God that he championed his close friend Sylvia Plath and recounts her suicide.Ī detailed obituary on The Guardian states: “According to Matthew Norman, who played with him, he was a good poker player – but not world-class. Other books he penned centered on rock climbing (one of his other passions), oil exploration, and suicide. He added: "Quite simply, poker taught me qualities I lacked - patience and cool-headedness - that steadied me when I most needed them."Īlvarez wrote more than two dozen books in his career, but the only other one about poker was 2001’s Poker: Bets, Bluffs, and Bad Beats. "I was the little Brit with the funny accent who could make them laugh.” "They didn't quite know what to make of me," Alvarez wrote. ![]() ![]() The text documented the 1981 World Series of Poker and as one critic wrote was “the origin of contemporary poker literature.” Indeed, the book helped introduce the masses to the clandestine world of high-stakes poker and to characters like Doyle Brunson, Mickey Appleman, and that year’s winner, Stu Ungar. Acclaimed poet, novelist, and essayist Al Alvarez (Aug– September 23, 2019), best known to the poker world for his game-changing The Biggest Game in Town, has passed away of viral pneumonia at the age of 90.įor poker players, Alvarez’s 1983 book is credited with helping grow the game. ![]()
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