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Publishers are betting on poker: sixty-plus books on the game published in 2005.
At a bookstore in Las Vegas this summer, customers kept calling to find out what day, even what hour, a forthcoming book would be available. No, they weren't asking about the latest Harry Potter.
They were eager to buy the new volume on tournament poker by Dan Harrington, the 1995 winner of the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold 'em Championship at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Harrington on Hold 'era: Expert Strategy for No-Limit Tournaments: Volume 2: The Endgame (Two Plus Two, June) "is the hottest book we sell at the moment," says Howard Schwartz, the owner of the Gamblers Book Shop. He adds, "But anything on tournaments is hot right now."
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