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WORD: Celebrity poker champions to play benefit tournament for literary magazine Fence
Edited Press Release

Top literary journal Fence will hold a poker tournament at the Chelsea Market party space in New York City on Sunday, May 7. The event, hosted by Fence editor Katy Lederer and author of  Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown Publishers), will feature promotional goodies and an exclusive cocktail hour.

Attendees will play alongside world-class poker champions Annie Duke and Howard Lederer. Other 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, who is the sibling of two of today’s top professional poker players, 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 of $200 will get a seat in the tournament; donors at higher levels ($500 and above) 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!).

The benefit event happens on Sunday, May 7 from 3 to 8 pm at the Chelsea Market party space, located at 75 Ninth Avenue in New York City. For further information or to secure tickets, contact fencepokerparty@gmail.com or you can also register at the tournament location. Keep in mind organizers note it could be "an overbooked mob scene."

For further information about Fence Magazine check out their website.

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