gamblers

Describes how a group of overachieving, anarchist MIT students joined a decades-old underground blackjack club dedicated to counting cards and beating the system at major casinos around the world, managed to legally take several Las Vegas casinos for more than three million dollars.

This is the story of Little Nell Trent and her grandfather as they wandered through English towns and countryside and of Daniel Quilp's compulsion to destroy the happiness of Nell and her friends.

An unabridged republication of Dostoyevsky's early twentieth-century novel about the gambling episodes, tangled love affairs, and complicated lives of young gambler Alexey Ivanovitch and the woman he loves.

Eleven articles explore various aspects of gambling, including the lives of professional and recreational gamblers, gambling addiction, and what it is like to work at a casino.

Describes how a group of overachieving, anarchist MIT students joined a decades-old underground blackjack club dedicated to counting cards and beating the system at major casinos around the world, managed to legally take several Las Vegas casinos for more than three million dollars.

Compulsive gambler David Caine uses his brilliant mathematical mind to outsmart the odds at Manhattan's underground poker clubs, but when he experiences a severe epileptic seizure at a key moment, he finds his life spinning out of control, and agrees to try an experimental treatment that soon causes more harm than good.

Tells the life story of Doc Holliday, the dentist who gave up his practice to be a gambler and gunslinger in the Wild West, eventually joining forces with lawman Wyatt Earp and taking part in the famous shoot-out at the O.K. Corral. Also includes a glossary and a further reading list.