SB: The one they play at the World Series of Poker: Texas Hold’em. I wrote three books with Lou Krieger, who had previously written Poker for Dummies. Poker exploded, but bookshelves were sparse when it came to helping people learn the game. Now we were able to see if players were bluffing and see the psychology of the game. The invention that caused poker to become popular was the “lipstick camera.” It’s the size of a tube of lipstick and is put on a poker table to allow an audience to see what a player is holding in his hand. I was the first woman to be allowed to play, and now I’m a regular - and I’m still the only woman.” But all the guys in the game took a vote and decided ‘no girls allowed.’ It was a men-only poker game, and chemistry is important. “In the 1970s, he was a good friend of author Lillian Hellman and she really wanted to get in the poker game. Her interview got her more than just insight, as she explains here:
One was the late Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, former New York Times book reviewer, who had been a regular at a twice-monthly home poker game since 1973. For The Kaizen of Poker, Sheree Bykofsky interviewed people from different walks of life about how they excelled.
