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hats & eyeglasses
martha frankel grew up in a warm loving family of diehard gamblers where her fathers poker games and her mothers mah jongg blended happily with big pots of delicious food and endless gossip . as kids she and her cousins bet on everythingfrom which of their weight watching mothers would lose the most to who could hold their breath longest underwater or eat the most matzo . but once frankel left for college and later became a successful entertainment journalist gambling didnt factor much into her life . she thought her family legacy had passed her by . br in this fast paced and amazingly funny the times picayune memoir frankel traces her love affair with poker an obsession that didnt hit until her mid forties . and she was good at poker . frankel won routinely whether she was playing in her wednesday night poker game or in one of the seedy out of the way rooms she always managed to find when on assignment . but all this changed when she discovered online poker . it was the beginning of what one of her uncles called hats and eyeglasses a term used to describe those times when youre losing so bad your ship is sinking until all thats left on the waters surface are your hat and eyeglasses . by turns hilarious and heartbreaking hats & eyeglasses is a tale of passion addiction and those times in life when we almost lose our shirt . br
paperback jeremy p. tarcher 2009 isbn13 9781585426973 isbn10 1585426970
abridged n isbn 13 9781585426973 number in series 1 number of pages 240 publisher penguin group usa release date 1235001600000