The Odds
One Season, Three Gamblers And The Death Of Their Las Vegas
Nonfiction, Sports, Basketball, Entertainment, Games, Gambling, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Chad Millman | ISBN: | 9780786731046 |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books | Publication: | March 5, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Da Capo Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Chad Millman |
| ISBN: | 9780786731046 |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books |
| Publication: | March 5, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Da Capo Press |
| Language: | English |
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 school-gambling. The third, one of Vegas's most respected bookmakers, is perilously close to burning out. The Odds follows 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 the Wall Street Journal called "fascinating. . . often screamingly funny." The Las Vegas Review-Journal had just one word for the book: "Superb."
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 school-gambling. The third, one of Vegas's most respected bookmakers, is perilously close to burning out. The Odds follows 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 the Wall Street Journal called "fascinating. . . often screamingly funny." The Las Vegas Review-Journal had just one word for the book: "Superb."
