Cover of the book The Noble Hustle by Carson Whitehead, subtitled "Poker, Beef Jerky and Death" which is a black cover with red poker chips in a maybe-falling pattern across the front.

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   Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 02:22:48 JST Jessamyn

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   Book 128: The Noble Hustle. I picked this up thinking (somehow) that it was fiction by Whitehead. It's actually about the time he got staked to play in the World Series of Poker. It's interesting in that it talks about poker culture. It wasn't interesting in that I don't entirely know how to play poker and the book claims it tells you how to play but doesn't really. I liked getting to know more about Whitehead (just out of a relationship at the time, and in his feels about that and other things)