The Odds: One Season, Three Gamblers, and the Death of Their Las Vegas

by Chad Millman

Paper Book, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

796

Tags

3 Gamblers- College Basketball

Genres

Collection

Gambling

Publication

Da Capo Press (2002), Edition: Reprint, 260 pages

Description

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."… (more)

Language

English

Original language

English

Physical description

260 p.; 5.5 inches

ISBN

0306811561 / 9780306811562

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