In 2011, when Miikka Anttonen was on a break at the European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event, he spotted a fellow grinder and asked him how things were going. Anttonen received a disappointing, if predictable, response — a chip count.
"It's easy to get sucked into the world of poker," Anttonen writes, "and it's so hard to step out of it occasionally to gain some perspective when your whole life is an endless stream of flops, turns, and rivers."
Once A Gambler, Anttonen's three-part memoir, is about the search for perspective in the poker world.