The Odds One Season, Three Gamblers And The Death Of Their Las Vegas

by Millman, Chad

• ISBN13: 9780306811562
• ISBN10: 0306811561
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-28
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

One gambler is a manic former cokehead with an Ivy League degree. The second is a college dropout trying to make a living at the only thing he enjoyed at schoolgambling. The third, one of Vegas's most respected bookmakers, is perilously close to burning out.The Oddsfollows the lives of these three professional gamblers through a college basketball season in a one-of-a-kind city struggling to reconcile its lawless past with its family-friendly makeover. With a wiseguy attitude and a faultless eye and ear for the sights and sounds of Vegas and its denizens, Chad Millman has created a portrait that theWall Street Journalcalled "fascinating. . . often screamingly funny."The Las Vegas Review-Journalhad just one word for the book: "Superb."

Author Biography

Chad Millman is a former Sports Illustrated reporter, a CNNSI correspondent, and associate editor at ESPN The Magazine. He has covered the NCAA basketball tournament, the Boston College football gambling scandal, the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics, and six Super Bowls. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
"Death Is Not the End"	p. 1
"It's Us Against the Wiseguys"	p. 11
"Get Out of My House"	p. 22
A Nation of Sports Bettors	p. 26
Let the Games Begin	p. 44
Hi Mom! My Bookie Called, Send Money	p. 60
"A Dying Breed"	p. 67
The Devil's Deal	p. 92
"This Life...Is Starting to Make Me Sick"	p. 106
Take Me Home	p. 122
"We Believe Anything Is Possible"	p. 141
"I Got a Winner, Huh Cuz?"	p. 153
"It's Just Another Day"	p. 175
"Without Nevada, This Would Not Have Happened"	p. 186
Everyone Jump in the Pool	p. 207
The Final Four	p. 224
Epilogue	p. 247
Index	p. 251
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