Ryan Fee on Joe Ingram's New Book

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Fee on Ingram's New Book
11:20
23 Feb

Forty thousand words of publishable content in ten days. That was the prop bet Joey Ingram booked for a couple of grand on the 21st January 2017. Sure enough by the end of the month he’d dumped out the requisite words onto the page and put the book up on Amazon for $9.99 under the title - Chasing The Poker Dream: The Qualities of a Successful Poker Player. For your ten-spot you get Ingram’s insights into what it is that makes a poker player a poker player.

Largely this translates into an insane and unhealthy work-ethic driven by obsession. Ingram is a real grinder of the old school taking prop bets to churn out tens of thousands of hands in a day, hundreds of thousands in a month, and winning them. The book is also in part a biography, less about what makes poker players great as what made Ingram great. For an insight into the online grinders mindset you could do a lot worse, although $9.99 for forty thousand almost entirely unedited words might seem a little steep to some.

Try giving Ingram’s recent podcast a viewing on the YouTubes before pulling the trigger, he has Ryan Fee of Upswing Poker – who contributed the introduction to the book – on to chat about the book and what it’s like taking up pedagogy in the cut-throat world of online poker.


It’ll be interesting to see if more books like this follow, the general guide to being a pro rather than purely strategic manuals. It’s a largely untouched genre, excepting perhaps Herbert Yardley’s autobiography / guide to winning - The Education of a Poker Player. Mind you, that was written for the underground grinder of the late fifties when everyone played draw and stud. Something more updated is probably about due.

And if you’ve read the book, go ahead and let us know what you think of it in the comments.


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Jon is a freelance writer and novelist who learned to play poker after watching Rounders in year 9. He has been giving away his beer money at cards ever since. Currently he is based in Bristol where he makes sporadic donations to the occasional live tournament or drunken late night Zoom session. He ...Read more

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