num_pages: 260
description: 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 "Superb."
language: English
title: The Odds: One Season, Three Gamblers, and the Death of Their Las Vegas
titlecomplete: The Odds: One Season, Three Gamblers, and the Death of Their Las Vegas
genres: Nonfiction, Sports
ratings_count: 497
publisher: Da Capo Press