POKER GODS: Episode 4: THE SEAT FROM HELL (POKER GODS The Series)

By Joey Gargiulo

Sometimes you draw a seat from the Poker Gods. Other times, you get the seat from hell. In this 4th episode of the Poker Gods series, we take a trip back in time into the shadows of 1980s Brooklyn, where Harry and Chernobog, two teenagers born into the underworld--armed with blackmarket hardware, ingenious code, and a vision decades ahead of its time--build one of the world's first AI poker machine. They call her Poker Wizard . She doesn't just calculate odds. She learns. She adapts. And she never forgets. Fueled by mob connections, backroom games, and a top-secret government lab, their invention catches the attention of underground poker legends, DOE scientists, and Atlantic City killers alike. But just when it seems they've changed the game forever, the machine goes dark... and the erasure begins. This is the story the poker tech world never wanted told. A story of betrayal, sabotage, and brilliance born in the wrong ZIP code. Where underdogs don't get trophies--they get robbed. Featuring real-life encounters with mob operatives, high-stakes poker gods, and Cold War-era hackers, Poker Gods: The Seat from Hell pulls back the curtain on the roots of AI poker--and the people the world tried to forget. Laced with underground war stories and eye-opening philosophical truths, this episode is part memoir, part expose, part digital heist thriller. If you've ever felt overlooked, underestimated, or erased--this story's for you. Because history doesn't remember the ghosts in the machine. But the game never forgets.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F6BVPF46
• ISBN13: 9798281237956
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 208 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"