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Some people join chess club, some people play football. Jack Shannon runs a secret blackjack ring in his private school’s basement. What else is the son of a Las Vegas casino mogul supposed to do? Everything starts falling apart when Jack’s mom is arrested for their family’s ties to organized crime. His sister Beth thinks this is the Shannon family’s chance to finally go straight, but Jack knows that something’s not right. His mom was sold...
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2017
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English
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"What if you could control luck? Would that be the greatest power you could give a man, or his worst nightmare? Stan Lee's Lucky Man is a bold crime thriller series based on an idea by the legendary comic book writer, Stan Lee. BAFTA-nominated actor James Nesbitt plays Detective Inspector Harry Clayton, a brilliant but troubled cop and a compulsive gambler who is in danger of losing everything. Harry is near rock bottom, his family has left him and...
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Guernica Editions
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"The “Starlight Hotel-Casino” is the story of a troubled family business doomed to fail and the stressful dynamics among its members and key employees during the collapse. It describes the inner workings of the casino business and the demise of Reno as a major player in the industry; unable, as it was, to meet the triple threat of Las Vegas, Indian gaming, and the legalization of gambling throughout the United States and abroad."--
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Scribner
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[2016]
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English
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"Fascinating and groundbreaking: a talented young journalist goes undercover to work as a casino labor-union organizer in Florida in this rare, smart look at the ongoing struggle between the haves and the have-nots. Salting is a simple concept--get hired at a non-union company, do the job you were hired to do, and, with the help of organizers on the outside, unionize your coworkers from the inside. James Walsh spent almost three years as a "salt"...
74) Bet the house: how I gambled over a grand a day for 30 days on sports, poker, and games of chance
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Chicago Review Press, Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
77) Casino wars
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NGHT
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Professional cheaters have come a long way from counting cards. Today, modern gadgets including lasers and microcomputers are helping them beat the house. Meet a former cheater who used a light wand to swindle $1 million from slot machines. Then, at the Aria Hotel and Casino, gain exclusive access to a subterranean surveillance facility where the latest advancements in digital surveillance and biometric identification technology are being used.
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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When retiree Jerry Selbee discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery, he and his wife Marge go on an exciting multi-million dollar winning spree to revive their small Michigan town. But when a selfish college student cheats the system, Jerry must find a way to make the game fair for all.
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University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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Las Vegas has been described as "the last great, mythic city that Western civilization will ever create," and its brief, phenomenal history has been largely shaped by a handful of colorful and astute casino operators who turned a dusty desert town into the gawdy, booming holiday mecca that it is today. The men who shaped Las Vegas were working without a model, and the city they invented is like none other on earth, where gambling is glorified, and...
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