The winning bidder for this unique auction item hosts a poker game featuring a presentation on the history of poker, including today's high-stakes televised tournaments, by noted poker writer and player James McManus.  He will serve as the celebrity co-host in your home game for an evening.

McManus is best known as the author of Positively Fifth Street, a book is based on his trip to Las Vegas to cover the progress of women in the 2000 World Series of Poker and the death of Ted Binion.  Last November he published Cowboys Full:  The Story of Poker, which documents the evolution of the a game once considered uniquely American but which now spans the world. 

McManus made the quarter-finals of the 2006 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, and has reached four WSOP final tables. He has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Harper's Magazine, and The New Yorker.  His Esquire article on stem cell research was a finalist for the National Magazine Award.  He has been the poker columnist of the New York Times as well as a history columnist for Card Player. He has spoken about the game at Yale, Harvard Law School, Google Inc., the American Bar Association, and on numerous media outlets. 

Copy and paste the following links in your browser to find more information on James McManus.  A real celebrity poker party in your home?  The chance of a lifetime...

http://www.amazon.com/Cowboys-Full-Story-James-McManus/dp/0374299242

http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/james-mcmanus-discusses-the-poker-history-book-cowboys-full-6038/

Item Restrictions:

Date to be mutually arranged between James McManus and the winning bidder.  Geographically limited to Chicago and its northern and northwestern suburbs.  Offer expires one year from date of purchase. 

Cowboys Full was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of 2009

One of the Best Books of the Year. Amazon.com

One of the Best Books of 2009. San Francisco Chronicle