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The Cincinnati Kid, first published in 1963 (and made into a feature film starring Steve McQueen in 1965), is a gritty novel of smoky back-rooms and centered on a young card-shark (“The Kid”) who eventually finds himself in a stud-poker game against the undisputed master (“The Man”). From the dust-jacket: “By the time he was twenty-one, he was a full rambling-gambling man, a three river man... . From Jolly’s Omaha Card Club on the Missouri, to Sprügi’s Emporium in Wheeling on the Ohio, down to Memphis on the Mississippi, he was known as The Cincinnati Kid, a comer, with a way about him.” The Kid first saw Lancey Hodges in a game in Kentucky, and he did not have to be told that Lancey was The Man, the number one player who ruled the stud poker circuit from Vegas to Miami. An old pro warned him about Lancey: “You growd some, Cincinnata. You kin make his stomik ulcer bleed, but I ain’t got much faith in nothin’ that will take him.”.

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The Cincinnati Kid, first published in 1963 (and made into a feature film starring Steve McQueen in 1965), is a gritty novel of smoky back-rooms and centered on a young card-shark (“The Kid”) who eventually finds himself in a stud-poker game against the undisputed master (“The Man”). From the dust-jacket: “By the time he was twenty-one, he was a full rambling-gambling man, a three river man... . From Jolly's Omaha Card Club on the Missouri, to Sprügi's Emporium in Wheeling on the Ohio, down to Memphis on the Mississippi, he was known as The Cincinnati Kid, a comer, with a way about him.” The Kid first saw Lancey Hodges in a game in Kentucky, and he did not have to be told that Lancey was The Man, the number one player who ruled the stud poker circuit from Vegas to Miami. An old pro warned him about Lancey: “You growd some, Cincinnata. You kin make his stomik ulcer bleed, but I ain't got much faith in nothin' that will take him.”.

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Cincinnati Kid ist ein talentierter junger Pokerprofi, der ganz an die Spitze will. Sobald er sich genügend Respekt und Anerkennung in der Szene verschafft hat, fordert er den anerkannten Pokerkönig Lancey „The Man“ heraus, denn Kid will esendlich wissen und glaubt, so weit zu sein. Bei der großen Partie kommt es zu einem unglaublich spannenden Showdown.Jessups Roman führt uns zur Zeit der Großen Depression der 1930er-Jahre nach St. Louis, Missouri, in die nach eigenen Regeln funktionierende Welt der Berufsspieler. Als der Roman 1963 erschien, erkannte Hollywood sofort sein Potential. Norman Jewison verfilmte das Buch 1965 mit Steve McQueen als Kid und Edward G. Robinson als The Man.Die deutsche Übersetzung „Der Pokerkönig“ aus demselben Jahr ist längst vergriffen.Die Veröffentlichung der neuen Übersetzung von Kurt Bracharz ermöglicht es, mit Richard Jessup einen der großen amerikanischen Pulp-Autoren und „working writer“ kennenzulernen.