- Bykofsky is based on the Jersey Shore and plays in Atlantic City casinos, and she will actively promote this book. Her previous books have sold a combined 200K copies.

- Topics in the book include card handling, money handling, dealing with players, bluffing, strategizing, and beyond. No element of the game is untouched.

- Poker continues to be played in huge numbers. In 2015, "The Colossus" drew 14,284 players, who entered the contest a total of 22,374 times. The entire WSOP in 2016 attracted 103,512 entries, the first time the game's biggest stage hit the six-figure mark in one festival.

- ESPN's telecast of the final table of the WSOP main event saw 1.2 million viewers in 2016.