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Jon Pill

Jon Pill

Articles 284 Joined PokerTube May 2016
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 blogs at What Is There to Option?

ARTICLES BY Jon Pill

Poker Gossip & Opinion ,
Book Review: The Gambler

In The Gambler, Dostoevsky’s portrait of a young tutor who is converted to degeneracy during a holiday in a town named – perhaps somewhat on the nose – Roulettenberg.

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Movie Review: Stuey

Stuey, or High Roller, or High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story is the 2003 biopic of the late great Stuey ‘The Kid’ Ungar. It’s written and directed by A W…

Poker Gossip & Opinion ,
Movie Review: Shade

A Shade is a move designed to distract the attention of the audience away from sleight in question. It is this particular meaning that 2003’s poker/crime movie Shade refers.

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Movie Review: Casino Royale

Casino Royale is the 2006 installment in the long running James Bond series about a British civil servant who travels the world solving crime by drinking too much, having sex,…

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