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“Writing a book,” said Winston Churchill,

is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.

Writing this book was an adventure of a homebound, sedentary sort, involving long forays into internet poker, quick darts back to my word processor, investigation of online resources, then back to the game, back to the text, back to the game, back to the text, until I could no longer tell whether I was taking breaks from writing to play poker or breaks from poker to write.

My job was, as always, made easier by the unstinting support of my wife, Maxx Duffy, who, with the patience of several saints, would often stick her head in my office, find me playing yet another sitngo and, smiling, say, “Hard at work, I see.” My job is also made easier by the support of my parents, who take bemused pride in their prodigal boy. My dad has Alzheimer’s disease now and no longer quite knows what I’m up to, but that never stops him from saying, “Keep doing what you’re doing.”

I owe a huge debt to everyone associated with UltimateBet.com, too numerous to mention, but not too numerous to thank. As UB’s news ambassador and blogger-without-portfolio, I have had the opportunity to extend and expand my “weird cult following,” and even parlay it into a TV poker gig on Fox Sports Net. Props to all UBers, players and staff alike. You guys rule cyberspace, IMHO.

Tony Guerrera rules numbers in a way I never could, and here’s a big shout out to him for his worthy contribution here. Thanks to Cowboy Wil Wheaton for chipping in with the foreword, and thanks also to Greg Dinkin and Frank Scatoni of Venture Literary Agency, whose instincts are unerring and efforts unrelenting. In the words of my dad, “Keep doing what you’re doing.”

Last, a humble and heartfelt thanks to you, the reader of these words. You make my life rise.