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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.94 — 26,888 ratings — published 2002
The Gambler (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.91 — 122,420 ratings — published 1866
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,068 ratings — published 2003
A Rogue by Any Other Name (The Rules of Scoundrels, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.92 — 46,590 ratings — published 2012
The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,200 ratings — published 2005
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,566 ratings — published 2006
Busting Vega$: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds
by (shelved 18 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,772 ratings — published 2005
Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,623 ratings — published
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,818 ratings — published 2020
Dreaming of You (The Gamblers of Craven's, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,666 ratings — published 1994
The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,812 ratings — published 1983
Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.15 — 844 ratings — published 1966
The Logic Of Sports Betting (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.97 — 901 ratings — published
One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey, 'The Kid', Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,660 ratings — published 2005
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.74 — 96,589 ratings — published 1953
Tishomingo Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,848 ratings — published 2002
A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,947 ratings — published 2016
The Biggest Game in Town (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,075 ratings — published 1983
Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.84 — 24,842 ratings — published 2014
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,421 ratings — published 2014
Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,050 ratings — published 2010
Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.00 — 708,663 ratings — published 2011
The Man with the $100,000 Breasts: And Other Gambling Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.71 — 199 ratings — published 1999
Poker Nation: A High-Stakes, Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.58 — 582 ratings — published 2002
No Good Duke Goes Unpunished (The Rules of Scoundrels, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.86 — 23,967 ratings — published 2013
Trading Bases: A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Not Necessarily in That Order )
by (shelved 10 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,413 ratings — published 2013
Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.46 — 785 ratings — published 2010
Doyle Brunson's Super System (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,490 ratings — published 1979
Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.85 — 879 ratings — published 1987
One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (The Rules of Scoundrels, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,497 ratings — published 2013
The Odds: A Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.35 — 3,560 ratings — published 2007
Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.20 — 99,647 ratings — published 2006
The Odds: One Season, Three Gamblers, and the Death of Their Las Vegas (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.78 — 551 ratings — published 2001
24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.88 — 178 ratings — published 1999
Whale Hunt in the Desert: Secrets of a Vegas Superhost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.77 — 400 ratings — published 2004
My Once and Future Duke (The Wagers of Sin, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,431 ratings — published 2018
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,223 ratings — published 2012
The Music of Chance (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,376 ratings — published 1990
Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire--and How It All Came Crashing Down . . . (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,170 ratings — published 2013
Small Stakes Hold 'em: Winning Big with Expert Play (Small Stakes Poker Games)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.09 — 757 ratings — published 2004
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.64 — 449 ratings — published 2009
The Smart Money: How the World's Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies Out of Millions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.91 — 494 ratings — published 2005
Every Hand Revealed (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,795 ratings — published 2008
Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No-Limit Tournaments, Volume I: Strategic Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,529 ratings — published 2004
Caro's Book of Poker Tells: The Psychology and Body Language of Poker (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,512 ratings — published 1984
The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told: A True Tale of Three Gamblers, The Kentucky Derby, and the Mexican Cartel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,706 ratings — published 2020
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.82 — 23,475 ratings — published 2018
Then Came You (The Gamblers of Craven's, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.94 — 33,779 ratings — published 1993
Telling Lies and Getting Paid: Gambling Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.62 — 84 ratings — published 2001
Reality Check (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,528 ratings — published 2009
“Billy's native arrogance might well have been a gift of miffed genes, then come to splendid definition through the tests to which a street like Broadway puts a young man on the make: tests designed to refine a breed, enforce a code, exclude all simps and gumps, and deliver into the city's life a man worthy of functioning in this age of nocturnal supremacy. Men like Billy Phelan, forged in the brass of Broadway, send, in the time of their splendor, telegraphic statements of mission: I, you bums, am a winner. And that message, however devoid of Christ-like other-cheekery, dooms the faint-hearted Scottys of the night, who must sludge along, never knowing how it feels to spill over with the small change of sassiness, how it feels to leave the spillover on the floor, more where that came from, pal. Leave it for the sweeper.”
― Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
― Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
“One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.”
― From Here to Eternity
― From Here to Eternity
