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

by Chad Millman (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $23.30

  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.