A former professional sports gambler and television poker commentator, Michael Konik has earned the honorific “Dean of the World's Gambling Writers.” The best-selling author of acclaimed books about risk and reward, including The Man With the $100,000 Breasts, Telling Lies and Getting Paid, and The Smart Money, Konik lives in Southern California, where he tends to a vegetable garden and shares his provocative “Thought of the Week” essays at his official site, MichaelKonik.com.