Charlie Campbell
Slim’s Pickings
Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People
By Amarillo Slim
Yellow Jersey Press 270pp £12 order from our bookshop
Poker Nation
By Andy Bellin
Yellow Jersey Press 258pp £8) order from our bookshop
Phantoms of the Card Table
By David Britland
High Stakes 256pp £25) order from our bookshop
Gamblers Anonymous has a list of twenty questions that aims to identify those with a gambling problem. Anyone answering ‘yes’ to more than seven questions is deemed compulsive. Where then does the dedicated gambler fit in? And how would one categorise Amarillo Slim, the self-styled ‘greatest gambler who ever lived’ and co-author of Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People (Yellow Jersey Press 270pp £12)?
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