The Odds
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."
288 pages, 3 editions
English edition · First published 2001 by Da Capo Press Inc · ISBN 9780306811562
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Editions
3 editions
English
- The Odds · Da Capo Press Inc · 2002 · ISBN 9780306811562 This page
- Odds · Hachette Books · 2009 · ISBN 9781322579610
- The Odds: One Season, Three Gamblers, and the Death of Their Las Vegas · PublicAffairs · 2001 · ISBN 9781891620232
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