Is Von Elsner still alive? A friend of mine who lived on Hilo
for a while
played bridge with him in the early '70's'. I think Von
Elsner's books
featuring Jake Winkman, bridge pro, were not particularly
accurate in the
milieu as well as the bridge analyses.(I was a bridge
pro)
As far as that goes, Fleming's Moonraker starts with a bridge
hand that was
famous in whist. That got me to start reading the
series.
To ensure there is some hard boiled content in this message,
Pete Hautman's
Joe Crow, who debuted in The Drawing Dead, makes his living
playing poker.
James Garner's tv series Maverick had a lot of episodes with
poker as a key
element. Tevis' The Cincinnati Kid as well as the Steve
McQueen/Edward G
Robinson movie were about a poker playing analog to the
Hustler's Fast Eddie
Felson.
Mark Bumenthal
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