Poker and the printed world go together so naturally, it might impossible to think of a time where the two weren’t connected in some way; one intrinsically compliments the other, whether it’s a strategy guide or in reporting the drama from the felt.

In our series about poker books, we’ve covered classic reads from the past that helped your favourite players today form their own poker game, as well as recent strategic guides to help you succeed in specific areas of the game such as qualifying for tournaments through winning satellites, or how to tackle various levels of playing no limit hold’em tournaments.

There is always a place for poker in the literary world of thrillers, however, and while we’ve written in detail about poker making its mark in novels such as the Harry Bosch novels by Michael Connelly, it’s high time we brought you a poker novel that centres around the game entirely.

This is Where You Fold has been released with perfect timing, therefore, coming along just this Spring, published three weeks ago courtesy of Gutshot Publishing. The book centres around a poker player and former businessman called Steve Ash, whose comfortable life explodes in disaster when he loses his business to a cheating friend and is left to consider his options with two kids, a mortgage and a father-in-law who is in a nursing home. Up against the worst odds since Bryce Yockey moved all-in, Ash turns to his own technology, since he designed the card-reading tech at the poker table.