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The true story behind the Martin Scorsese film: Focusing on Chicago bookie Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal and his partner, Anthony Spilotro, and drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Mafia classic Wiseguy-basis for the film Goodfellas-Nicholas Pileggi reveals how the pair worked together to oversee Las Vegas casino operations for the mob. He unearths how Teamster pension funds were used to take control...
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Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. 'Addiction by design' takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing...
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
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xiv, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Casinos are designed for distraction, so it helps to know a bit about when the odds are in your favor and when they're not before you push a stack of chips onto a table. Professional blackjack player Kevin Blackwood and lifelong sports bettor Swain Scheps know a thing or two about casino gambling. In Casino Gambling For Dummies, these seasoned gaming veterans guide you through the essential strategies for walking out of the casino ahead of the game....
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Rowman & Littlefield
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[2015]
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xvi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Just One More Hand tells a story that workers all over can relate to: an industry that promised a solid and stable livelihood is being transformed by competitive pressures, causing employees to lose their economic footing. What seemed like a good job one day becomes a bad job the next. Incorporating the real experiences of casino employees, the book demonstrates the difficulties for local communities that are building new casinos in the hopes of luring...
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A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"From his stormy relationship with the beautiful Virginia Hill to his mysterious murder, Biography presents an up-close look at the mobster who lived his life at nothing short of full-throttle."--Container
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Scalped volume 5
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2009
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1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm
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English
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Scalped volume 6
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2010
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1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm
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English
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