Author

Books by Michael Craig

Michael Craig is an American journalist who has covered poker and gambling extensively for Card Player magazine and other publications. The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King, published in 2005, grew out of his reporting on the Andy Beal matches and remains his most widely read work. He has also written fiction and has contributed to several anthologies about cards and competition. His approach is that of a reporter rather than a participant — he interviewed the key players extensively rather than playing himself — which gives the book its relatively clear-eyed perspective on a world that frequently mythologizes its own participants.