In  making this site for Glen of course I needed to read the book to understand how to reliably  and straightforwardly present the information for visitors.

I may normally not have read such a book,  as professional poker playing is well  outside my normal experience.
If this is you, do not let it put you off! I loved it.

Becoming totally absorbed in a world very different than I had imagined:
I read compelling tales of movie like characters  related with laser clarity by its author Glen Garrod who has a keen eye and a sharp mind for the analysis of risk and capabilities of people written down in the same concise and analytical way as the game is played.

No-one is reviled, many are admired and often  folk in the narrative will of course stumble usually  to get up again as fortunes are won and lost.

Of special interest to me was Glenn’s proactive adventure into creating a new casino game based on Texas Holdem  he had promoted as a business to casinos.

Editors have reported that every math formula or figure  presented in a book will reduce sales by half-
But this is neither a statistical nor math book.
else I would have put it down
but of colorful strategists, artfully drawn.
It does have occasinal  diagrams of the stages of games
that help if you understand the game,
but it’s not strictly necessary knowledge.

It’s more like a psychology reader of  warfare and covert strategies  of the many people you and I know in daily life,
but magnified  by being around a magical baize
(the fabric!)  poker table where much is ‘at stake’

The additional benefit is I too felt I was  around darkened card tables experiencing  a poker focused  brotherhood and to lesser extent sisterhood that spans many years and locations few have any insight about-

Until now.

By the way- there is in back a glossary of poker terms for clarity, many of which have made their way to expressions we often use

Thanks for the opportunity to ‘be’ there with you Glen at those  tables even if only for a little while and as just an observer!

He pointed out when asked:

“It’ s not gambling for me, only for them’.

— Paule Castro, Jan 2026