A Family Love Affair With Gambling - Washington Post

Two classes of people generally are forgotten amid the plethora of televised poker shows and their ubiquitous professionals: the anonymous millions who almost always lose, and the handful of casino owners who never do, making fortunes separating the masses from their money. When the border between recreation and addiction is porous, there are men waiting to exploit it.

Martha Frankel may not be a prototypical member of the faceless players who flood casinos, card rooms and online gambling sites, but her memoir, "Hats & Eyeglasses," is at once funny, disturbing and likely familiar to many who have lived in the grip of obsession. Growing up in a Jewish family in the Bronx and Queens, Frankel was first drawn to the mystery and masculinity of poker as she watched her father's weekly low-stakes game with an ensemble of neighborhood characters. (Her mother would wipe the floor with all of them on the rare occasions she chose to play.)

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