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After hosting the start to the first event of the 2009 World Series of Poker on Wednesday, May 27th, Phil Hellmuth gave a special press conference to announce the release of the first book to be produced under his brand new publishing company, Phil’s House Publishing. “Deal Me In”, by Stephen John and Marvin Karlins, is a collection of “heartbreaking and inspiring stories” from 20 of the world’s greatest poker players.

Outside of publishing the book, Hellmuth played a large role in recruiting big time poker pros to participate in the project. “I knew that once I had Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, Erik Seidel, Daniel Negreanu, and Phil Ivey, then everybody else would want to be in the book,” said Hellmuth. “These chapters are just so wildly diverse. Phil Ivey’s story, where he has so much discipline, and control, and money management — you just don’t expect that looking at the Ivey of today…. Doyle Brunson talking about people getting shot [at his table]…. [And] Layne Flack’s [emotional] story made me cry.”

Deal Me In is currently available at Hellmuth’s personal PokerBrat.com website, where it will be sold exclusively until September when the book will be opened up to other distributors. The first printing of the book will include approx. 20,000 copies that’ll be ready to ship by June 22nd.