Lay the Favourite A True Story About Playing to Win in the Gambling Underworld

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Publisher's Synopsis

The Lucky Charm. The Sure Thing. The Long Shot. The Jinx.

Beth Raymer came to Vegas to live the dream. Instead she winds up waiting tables in a low-rent diner and living in a fleapit motel.

Then she meets Dink, the King of Last Vegas sports betting. Dink introduces her to the testorsterone fuelled underworld of high stakes gambling a dog-eat-dog realm of grifters, and strippers, wise-guys and hardened cons.

New to the game but with big ambitions, Beth must get smart to get ahead. The real money is off-shore, where gambling regulations don't count. But nor do other rules. In the free-wheeling caribbean Beth discovers that the difference between winning big and losing everything comes down to how sharp you play.

Book information

ISBN: 9781409040699
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Pub date:
DEWEY: 795.092
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 228
Weight: -1g