DescriptionCase and hardback book. Case shows a variation of a King card, with all suits visible and part of the face in the center. Set in a frame of dark blue with gold accents. Case is covered in gray-blue paper. Book has red cloth covered spine, with covers ob black background with gold accents. Covers were pasted over the cloth of the spine. Novelist Pete Hautman is a player. Early one morning the rest of us were moving as quickly as we could toward home. Pete, however, stood thoughtfully analyzing the game—who won, who lost, and why. Bad Beat takes place in Zink’s club 34, a familiar bar with a card game going on upstairs. In the course of the story we learn to the meaning and implications of the term "bad beat". 56 pgs.