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UNDER THE GUN : Poker Highs And Lows A NOVEL BY B

About Me

live player also:here discussing 'Under The Gun' with Gordon Astley on BBC Southern Counties radio (July 2006):...many more videos of mine (altho not all poker related) @ youtube.com/bmoviez

My Interests

writing, reading, poker, magick, music, travel, films, friends, parties, the 'occasional' mash up

I'd like to meet:

nice people / friendly extraterrestrials / people with too much money for their own good who'd like to lose some of it to me in a game of poker / our world leaders to give them either a piece of my mind or a punch on the nose

Music:

currently into Bromheads Jacket, The Crimea, Hard Fi, Babyshambles, Libertines, Maximo Park, Kasabian, Kaiser Chiefs, White Stripes, The Zutons. Favourite songs: Sunday Morning by The Velvet Underground, Sympathy For The Devil by The Rolling Stones, I Am A Madman by Lee Perry. Into tekno, drum and bass and that if at a good party on good enhancers. Still dig the global choonz of Whirl-Y-Gig (Transglobal Underground, Joi, Astralasia, etc) - the first music that I got to hear 'enhanced'.

Movies:

my top 23 at present time in no particular order read as follows: Nuts In May, Taxi Driver, I Heart Huckabees, Tape, Waking Life (best watched on acid), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Outsiders, Rumblefish, Easy Rider, Bad Taste, Breakfast Of Champions, Stranger Than Paradise, Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai, Simple Men, The Book Of Life, La Haine, The King Of Comedy, Jacob's Ladder, Enduring Love, An American Werewolf In London, Buffalo 66, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Barfly

Television:

Spaced, Shameless, Peep Show, The Office (UK original and the USA version pretty funny too), Lost, Boys From The Black Stuff, Twin Peaks, V, Nathan Barley, Brass Eye, The Day Today, The Incredible Hulk, Six Feet Under, 24, The Sopranos, World Series of Poker, The Simpsons, The Young Ones, Ali G, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Invaders, Bod

Books:

A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Poker Without Cards by Ben Mack, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, On The Road and The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell, The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart, The Yes Man by Danny Wallace, The Outsiders and Rumblefish by S E Hinton, The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson, Breakfast Of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut, A New Life by Bernard Malamud, The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Monster On The Bus

Heroes:

Bill Hicks

My Blog

UNDER THE GUN: free ebook available to download online

from worldofb.net - username worldofbvisitor password see4free - your thoughts / feedback on it if you read appreciated
Posted by b on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:59:00 PST

UNDER THE GUN : now available from Amazon

'UNDER THE GUN : Poker Highs And Lows' is now available from Amazon, Barnes And Noble and several other global online outlets. A definitive revised version of that originally released with Lulu back i...
Posted by b on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 03:01:00 PST

Winner Of The First Poker Player UK Open + UPL League Race Champion

Just seen its been 7 months since I last left a blog here, when placing 8th in the UK's biggest ever live poker tournament The Oxford Cup. Since then I had a short break from poker, but lately have be...
Posted by b on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:10:00 PST

Under The Gun In Oxford : Real Life Poker Highs And Lows

I'm just back from the poker highs and lows of a fantastic fifth annual Oxford Cup - especially fantastic for me, managing to make it to the final table, but pretty fantastic also I reckon for the 350...
Posted by b on Mon, 01 May 2006 03:31:00 PST

UNDER THE GUN : as featured in 'Poker Player' magazine

Well, 'UNDER THE GUN : Poker Highs And Lows' has made it into 'Poker Player' magazine - Issue 8, May 2006 edition out now - featured in an article about a Texas Hold 'Em tournament...
Posted by b on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:48:00 PST

UNDER THE GUN : the press release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   'UNDER THE GUN : Poker Highs And Lows' A Novel By B (ISBN: 978-1-4166-8616-8, www.lulu.com/underthegun)   BRIGHTON, ENGLAND, Spring 2006 - Brighton based writer B ha...
Posted by b on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 07:37:00 PST

UNDER THE GUN : the back cover blurb

With Texas Hold 'Em fever sweeping the south of England, Tom Grimsby, a young gambler in over his head with hustlers and gangsters, risks losing his wife and child and also his safe well being on acco...
Posted by b on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:17:00 PST