"Hard-core poker players know well the highs and the lows, the ecstasies and the agonies, the challenges and the frustrations of the game. DeCeglie takes the reader on a journey through this world on the back of a man who surrenders his existence to the whims of the poker gods, with a writing style as raw, hard and beautiful as the game itself."
Blair Rodman - WSOP bracelet winner and co-author of "Kill Phil, The Fast Track to Success in No-limit Hold’em Poker Tournaments."

"You have real talent DeCeglie. You leave the rest for dead! The unrelenting descriptions and razor-sharp psychological insights got me from the first sentence. This is more than poker fiction, its about being the very best you can no matter who or where you are, and that is important."
Jeff Lisandro -Four Time WSOP Bracelet Winner & 2009 WSOP Player of the Year

"DeCeglie has balls roughly the size of Bukowski’s. Damned Good is goddamned good"
Jimmy Jack - Winner AFI Award for Best Screenplay

"DeCeglie knows all too well how often men seek meaning in life's dark corners, then find they've cornered themselves. He wields his strong, original voice dexterously through the shadowy corridors of his protagonist's world, with prose so sharp it often cuts you on the way past. Damned Good is a must-read for poker fans and those who can't help but flirt with the dark side."
Patrick O'Neil - Author of Sideways: Travels with Kafka, Hunter S. and Kerouac

"The novella as I love it - Steinbeck, Kafka, Capote, Hemingway, Conrad, Kerouac - is a hard literary act to pull off."Damned Good" is unapologetic writing reminiscent of the tough son of a bitch poetry of Frederick Seidel... This is a voice that's heard clear above the loud-mouthed D-lister literary grant huggers, presenting us with a magnificent concatenation of mens games."
James Phelan - critically acclaimed bestselling novelist.