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Las Vegas, 1970s, a golden age of Glitter Gulch corruption. Dennis Gomes, the youngest division chief in Gaming Control Board history-whipped a ragtag group of auditors into hardened, gun-slinging investigators, and shattered clichés about milquetoast accountant cops. Coming within a hair's breadth of death more than once, Gomes capped off his tenure with the famous bust of the Stardust skim, portrayed in the book and movie Casino. In ‘Hit Me!”,...
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Starrshma Fields is officially back on the scene, with the intent of returning to the head of the Double Gs organization with a new game plan. After a close call, she is all too eager to put into motion the plan she conjured up while in custody at the Clark County Jail. However, she is clueless as to all that has been going on while she was out of the loop. Diamond Morgan has been handling business, running the Double Gs in Starr's absence. She has...
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“In this series about gambling, the main character is a big winner.”
–Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“Bask in Swain’s Las Vegas without having to set foot in the place and risk being skinned alive.”
–The Washington Post Book World
A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world’s largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry,...
–Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“Bask in Swain’s Las Vegas without having to set foot in the place and risk being skinned alive.”
–The Washington Post Book World
A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world’s largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry,...
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An unprecedented look at Las Vegas law enforcement's fight to keep the Mafia from taking over Las Vegas, The Battle for Las Vegas relates the story of the fight between the tough guys on both sides, told in large part by the agents and detectives who knew they had to win.
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2004
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For ex-cop Tony Valentine, life in balmy Florida provides little R&R. In fact, he’s in demand now more than ever. Armed with a special grift sense, Valentine can spot card cheats and even bigger game whose sole purpose on earth is to relieve a casino of its cash. But when his son, who was going to card-counting school, goes missing, Valentine jets to Las Vegas. Once in town, he is pressed into service—and lands inside a treacherous...
9) The cooler
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Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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[2004],©2002
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Bernie is extremely unlucky at gambling and he owes the Shangri-La casino's mob bos Shelly Kaplow over $100,000. He is so unlucky that he is hired as a "cooler". He gambles next to high rollers and gives them some of his bad luck to stop them from winning. This arrangement works out for awhile, but when Bernie has almost paid off his debt, he meets cocktail waitress, Natalie. The two start to fall in love and Bernie's luck begins to change. Unfortunately,...
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Sony Pictures Televison
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2017.
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English
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Former FBI agent Alex Kane becomes a reluctant player in an age-old secret society's perverse game of chance, where the stakes are measured in criminal acts and human lives. The wealthy members of this anonymous, amoral club place their bets through Mr. Johnson to gamble on the probable outcomes of horrific crimes, and Alex must walk a fine line between right and wrong as he fights to protect innocents from becoming casualties of The Game.
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Ballantine Books
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c2008
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Born in Cuba, Jose Vigoa used his quick wits and quicker fists to trade a life of poverty and desperation for one of danger and adventure as a Soviet-trained special forces officer. Battle-hardened in Afghanistan and Angola, Vigoa won a reputation for toughness, bravery, and coolness under fire. Then, in 1980, Castro opened Cuba's floodgates in the Mariel boatlift, and Vigoa, like so many others, braved chaos and hardship to start a new life in America's...
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McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
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[2021]
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"The path of Grand Prix racing in America wound through raceways at Sebring, Riverside, Watkins Glen, Long Beach, and finally Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. At each stop, the influence of organized crime seemed no more than a handshake away. But at Caesars the vast crime syndicate appeared deeply involved in the operations of the luxury-branded resort. The Caesars Palace Grand Prix then culminated in an unholy alliance of the world capital of gambling,...
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Mill Creek Entertainment
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c2009
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Chronicles the untold history of Las Vegas, a story that may have never existed without the foresight and sponsorship of America's organized crime syndicate. Las Vegas is the country's greatest resort city and the gambling capital of the world. Home of the famous, and infamous Strip. The right price will get every kind of entertainment and is available for everyone and anyone at any time.