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Tales from the Tiltboys | 
 enlarge | Authors: The Tiltboys, Kim Scheinberg, Phil Gordon
Publisher: Sports Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 344282
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1596701404
Dewey Decimal Number: 795
EAN: 9781596701403
ASIN: 1596701404
Publication Date: July 1, 2005
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Condition: Brand new. Perfect condition
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Product Description
If you have any interest in poker or gambling, you will enjoy reading about the Tiltboys. Even casual poker fans will recognize Phil Gordon, the ringleader of the bunch, as the expert commentator on Bravo's "Celebrity Poker Showdown." Imagine the guys from "Animal House" with high SAT scores. They are a bunch of buddies who went to Stanford together and began a weekly poker game that led to weekend trips to Las Vegas and, for a few of them, to a life of playing poker professionally. Phil Gordon made dot.com millions and is now living the good life in the poker world and on television. Perry Friedman won a World Series of Poker event a couple years ago. While Dave "Diceboy" Lambert is, according to the other Tiltboys, the luckiest human being on the planet. It's "Swingers"-meets-"Rounders." Read these true tales of gambling, friendship, and Wednesday night poker. These anecdotes are a testament to just how amusing a life devoted to excess and debauchery can be.
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 Hilarious, wonderful reading! March 26, 2007
These guys are my heros! If you spend a night reading, it will feel like you're out on the town. I enjoy reading for recreational pleasure and for factual education. Most of the time reading is work. I blew threw this book in about 5 days! I've also made it required reading for all of my poker friends.
In reality, they are just a bunch of sick-smart guys (and gal) who love to play poker, gamble (yes, there IS a difference between the two!), and screw with each other. This book is a compilation of some of their shennanigans over the years. I'm sure some of their best material is in here. However, to really be a tiltboy, I'm sure this has to be an attitude, a way of life. I read somewhere that you should think of the guys in Animal House with an average IQ of 120. I'd say that this is a correct assessment. And I hope that someday that I will aspire well enough to have the honor of being called a Tiltboy.
Great reading!
 This book is awful March 23, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am sure this book would be very funny if you were a tiltboy or friend of the tiltboys. The tiltboys sound like a fun and smart bunch of people to hang around with. But I thought the book was a huge waste of time and money. The material in this book may be fit for a scrapbook or a home video but as a published work? No.
presto! January 11, 2007
Great book about a regular Wednesday poker game and the characters involved with it. This book takes you through the trials and tribulations of the tilt boys from back rooms to fame and fortune, it's and entertaining read.
A book with a sly subliminal message July 27, 2005
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is a ripoff of the Anthony Burgess "A Clockwork Orange" novel with "tilt" being substituted for "ultra-violence". Yet, I thoroughly enjoyed every page with a smile on my face. But, I don't believe any of the stories about Perry.
Fast Times and Fast Friends July 9, 2005
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I just finished this lovely book. This is a book about friendship and shared life experiences, woven around poker and roshambo and the circle game. Once you understand the concept of "tilt" as a form of currency in the game of life (to be earned, spent, loved, leveraged and traded) you will ADORE every word of this funny, imaginative, entirely entertaining book. Kudos to Kim Scheinberg the editor. She did an admirable job.
I smiled from the first page to the last. I laughed out loud - a lot. I identified with the camaraderie of people making and cherishing lifelong friendships. Anyone who has ever had a shared life experience with even one close friend will enjoy this book. It made me jealous - I wished I had been a Tiltboy. But, more than mere jealousy, I increased the value I put on my own friendships with every page I turned. I hated to reach the end.
Enjoy!
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