It’s tempting to write to a captive audience during something as serious as a global pandemic. If you’re penning a mystery, then making it apocalyptic could be the temptation, after all, readers will know exactly where you’re headed. If you’re writing a poker book, it might be a bestseller if you focus on how to make the most of a dwindling bankroll as real-life costs and day-jobs fluctuate.

That’s not the case with this week’s Poker in Print subject, however, as Bill Perkins’ Die With Zero makes the case for how you should be trying to lose all your money before you leave this world. Well, sort of.

Bill Perkins is not only a fascinating guy, but one of poker’s most charismatic players. If you’ve never watched him play, it might be fair to say that you’re out of the loop when it comes to high rollers, as Perkins is loaded and not afraid to mix it with the big boys, even if his poker resume is slightly less impressive than his business one.

Perkins has cashed for over $5.4 million in live events, yet has only cashed 10 times in his lifetime, in numbers terms that can’t be ideal for the kind of buy-ins he plays. Yet he is a highly talented player, finishing 3rd in the 2013 One Drop High Roller event for $1.9 million, 4th in an EPT Super High Roller the year after for another $470,368 and 6th in last year’s Triton Million for Charity event, earning himself another $2.6 million.