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

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

Paperback (28 Mar 2002)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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."

Book information

ISBN: 9780306811562
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Da Capo Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 368.4209793135
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 280
Weight: 339g
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 20mm