The Book
The Greatest Hand of All Time
Two boards. Eight cards. One impossible hand. The events of January 8 and 9 are true. The photograph is real. Look at the clock.
About the book
The hand gets you in the door. The table is what you’ll remember.
At 2:23 on a January morning, in a Florida home game, a double-board bomb pot produced something the odds say should never happen: one player made a royal flush on the top board and a ten-high straight flush on the bottom, both the stone cold nuts, in the same hand. The pot was enormous. The photograph is real. The professional at the table ran the numbers afterward and put the odds in the trillions.
Bomb Pot is the true story of that hand and of the players around the table, a season of Thursday nights among the host, the pro, the showman, the gamer, and the fish who will never admit it. It is written so anyone can pull up a chair, poker players and poker spouses alike. Because we all run good and we all run bad, and in poker for life, if you finish even, you are doing well.
The Newsletter
Stories from the table, the next books, and the hidden mathematics of the modern world, in occasional, considered letters.