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21) The smart money: how the world's best sports bettors beat the bookies out of millions : a memoir
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A tour of high-stakes sports betting by a key insider profiles The Brain Trust, one of the world's top gambling operations, and describes the author's participation in the cloak-and-dagger milieu of hidden identities and offshore banking.
22) Texas blue
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Whispering Mountain novels volume 5
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English
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Determined to marry into a respectable family, gambler Lewton Paterson, sets his sights on Emily McMurray, one of the McMurray sisters. Unfortunately, Emily has no intention of ever getting married, especially to a man like Lewt.
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In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of information theory—the basis of computers and the Internet—to the problem of making as much money as possible, as fast as possible.
Shannon
24) The gameshouse
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Presents a mesmerizing tale of a gambling house whose deadly games of chance and skill control the fate of empires. Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets.
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Devil you know volume 2
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English
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When she inherits a London girls' school that is also a gambling hall, orphaned Cecelia Teague engages in a battle of wills with Cassius Ramsay, the Lord Justice of High Court, who wants to destroy her and her business.
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2014, c2013.
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English
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The larger-than-life true tale of how a few frat brothers from Montana turned a weekly poker game in a dive bar into one of the most lucrative online companies in history based on extensive insider interviews, Ben Mezrich-bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House -chronicles the creation of AbsolutePoker.com, including the company's initial operations in the jungle paradise of Costa Rica where its founders lived...
28) Pronto
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Raylan Givens thrillers volume 1
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English
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"The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from 'Jimmy Cap' Capotorto--which he is, but everybody does it. Harry was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so he figures now's a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry's tricky--the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal's custody--but not careful. So Raylan's...
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Hazards of dukes volume 1
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English
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Sebastian, Duke of Hasford, has a title, wealth, privilege, and plenty of rakish charm. Until he discovers the only thing that truly belongs to him is his charm. An accident of birth has turned him into plain Mr. de Silva. Now, Sebastian is flummoxed as to what to do with his life--until he stumbles into a gambling den owned by Miss Ivy, a most fascinating young lady, who hires him on the spot. Working with a boss has never seemed so enticing. Two...
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Season for scandal volume 3
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English
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He should have thrown her out. But when club owner Alexander Lavoie catches a mysterious blonde counting cards at his vingt-et-un table, he's more intrigued than angry. He has to see more of this beauty - in his club, in his office, in his bed. But first he'll have to devise a proposition she can't turn down. Gossip said he was an assassin. Common sense told her to stay away. But Angelique Archer was desperate, and Lavoie's club offered a surefire...
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Axelrad was a Columbia graduate with a boring Wall Street job until he met a guy who knew a guy and became a professional card counter, playing blackjack in casinos across the country as part of a well-oiled team made up of counters, spotters, “gorillas” (players who don't count cards), and BPs (players who also count). No math whiz, Axelrad took awhile to learn how to keep the running count in his head, but he got there eventually and, with his...
32) Rounders
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[1999?]
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English
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A young man who is a reformed gambler returns to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
33) Rimfire
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Those Jensen boys volume 2
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English
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Riverboat gambling is a blast, until hot-headed Chance Jensen finds out just what he won in his final hand against a Missouri River gambler named Haggerty. Chance's "prize" is a beautiful Chinese slave girl named Ling. The twins, Chance and Ace, want to set Ling free and keep their cash, but at Fort Benton, Ling gives them the slip, robbing them blind. When they hunt her down in Rimfire, Montana, she's with Haggarty, lining up their next mark.
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820L
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The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters-the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness";...
37) A wedding wager
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Lady Serena Grantley was born to the nobility, but fate’s whim placed her in control of her gamester stepfather, who uses her beauty to lure young men to his gambling tables. Serena even dismissed her first love, the Honorable Sebastian Sullivan, at her stepfather’s command. But when he attempts to force her into a liaison with a dissolute earl, Serena resolves to do his bidding no more. Sebastian is the only man who ever captured her heart, and...
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He played in casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer than anyone could possibly imagine but it would nearly cost him his life.
Semyon Dukach was known as the Darling of Las Vegas. A legend at age twenty-one, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop a system that has never been revealed until now; that...
39) The house
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2017.
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English
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When Scott and Kate Johansen's daughter gets into her top-pick college, it's a dream come true, until her full-ride scholarship falls through. Desperate for cash, they risk it all to open a Vegas-style casino in their friend Frank's house, accidentally becoming dangerous suburban crime lords in the process.
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