Double or Nothing How Two Friends Risked It All to Buy One of Las Vegas' Legendary Casinos

Name: Double or Nothing How Two Friends Risked It All to Buy One of Las Vegas' Legendary Casinos
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ISBN: 9780060835835

ISBN-10: 0060835834

ISBN-13: 9780060835835

Edition: 2008

Authors: Tom Breitling, Cal Fussman

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If Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn had come of age at the end of the 20th century looking for an all-American adventure, they probably would've headed for Vegas. They'd have been hard-pressed to go on a wilder ride than the one taken by Tom Breitling and Tim Poster to the top of the famed Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino. Call them the Odds Couple. Breitling is the kid who lives next door if you grow up in Burnsville, Minnesota. He never saw a hundred dollar bill or "The Godfather" until he went to college. Poster comes from a family of oddsmakers who reach for the Doritos on football Sundays and scream for the point spread. He was whistling Sinatra and booking games at his Las Vegas high school.…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/18/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.034

Cal Fussman is a writer at large for Esquire . The author of After Jackie: Pride, Prejudice, and Baseball's Forgotten Heroes , he lives with his family in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.




Holding Up The House



The Wise Guy



The Square



In-credible!



Are You Ready for This?



Smashing Through



Substance Is Everything



Who? Me? Tom Corleone?



Steve's Blessing



The Bait Is Too Strong



Fly Me to the Moon



Fifty-Foot Heads



Two Porterhouses and a Vegetarian



The Gambler



Project Goldfish



The Odds Couple



The Best of It


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