Author Description

“Excellent, entertaining, and extremely well written … I couldn’t stop reading!” — Phil Hellmuth, poker icon and author of Play Poker Like the Pros Forget Wall Street—America’s best and brightest now seek their fortune at the poker tables. A Poker Novel follows the lives of three talented young poker players as they seek fame and fortune in a world fraught with addiction. Raf Verheij is a twenty-five-year-old math prodigy who likes to think that his current situation is Poker pulled him out of a deep hole instead of leading him into one. Robert Thompson is a Phil Ivey-like talent with a gambling problem—a player who has an almost supernatural ability to read opponents’ hands by taking cues from their body language. And finally, there’s Matt Ingram, a grinder with a penchant for self-destruction. The world of poker is filled with dangers to one’s bankroll and mental health—a world where the individual has to worry less about the problems that others will cause him than the problems that he will cause for himself. Broke follows these three top young players in their high-stakes quest for poker fame and reveals just how addictive this world can be.