Fence Magazine Poker Party May 7, 2006

Sunday, May 7, from 3-8pm, top literary journal Fence will host a benefit poker tournament at the Chelsea Market party space (75 Ninth Avenue). The event will feature promotional goodies and an exclusive cocktail hour. Attendees will play alongside world-class poker champions Annie Duke and Howard Lederer. Poker-playing literary lights will include Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, Darin Strauss, Myla Goldberg, Nathan Englander, John Wray, Darren Aronofsky, Joshua Marston, and other friends of the magazine.
Fence is one of the most influential and talked-about literary journals of its day. One of its four poetry editors is Katy Lederer, poet and memoirist (Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers), who happens to be the sibling of two of the most famous professional poker players in the world, Howard Lederer and Annie Duke (Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker.) Former fiction editor Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn) is a player in a regular poker night, and has gathered his literary poker pals for the evening's entertainment.
Attendees at the basic ticket price will get a seat in the tournament; donors at higher levels will attend an exclusive cocktail hour where they can hobnob with poker pros and literary lights, receive an intimate poker lesson from someone who really knows the game, and have a guarantee of starting at either Howard Lederer?s or Annie Duke?s table. Donors at the $10,000 level will secure an hour playing "Heads-up with Howie" in his hotel room (cigars included!).
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