In Michael Konik's darkly satirical debut novel, an American Humbert Humbert is overwhelmed by fantasies of becoming a Vegas big shot.Dubbed the “Dean of the World's Gambling Writers,” Konik is a form
The amazing story of Las Vegas’s inaugural season of hockey!William Foley took a big risk when he and his partners paid $500 million to the National Hockey League for a Las Vegas expansion team. Would
As recently as the early 1990s, Las Vegas was considered the place where headlining bands went to die; the Entertainment Capital of the World didn’t attract a major touring act until 1993.Compared to
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Anna Christiansen’s small-town life is about to go haywire. A young reporter stuck in a dead-end job, Anna falls head over heels for an interview subject, the bass player in an up-and-coming alt band.
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Since the publication of the bestselling The Frugal Gambler in 1998, Jean Scott has been busily plying her low-roller trade in casinos throughout America and sharing her exploits with the world via ap
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The two most common cancers in men are of the skin and prostate. If you’re male and over 50, statistically you have a 50% chance of getting clinically significant prostate cancer at some point in your
Short stories and essays about how haywire Vegas can get!Vegas was built on billions of intimate unnatural disasters—bad turns of the cards, unfortunate rolls of the dice. In both fiction and essays,
The complete tax implications of gambling are a big mystery to gamblers, accountants, and even the Internal Revenue Service itself. The IRS offers surprisingly few details to guide gamblers through th
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In the highly fluid and fast-changing tournament-poker universe, the dominant trend is toward looser and more aggressive (LAG) play, in which players move chips around at dizzying speeds. The Raiser's
Rick Lax has a great gig. What does he do? Whatever he wants Then he writes about it. He's a stunt journalist -- in Las Vegas. Rick crashes conventions, throws wild parties, and hangs out with celebr
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Ask any great poker player how he'd play a hand and he'll always say, "it depends." Though that can be an infuriating response, the truth is, it does depend. The key to becoming a great poker player i
Author Nathaniel Tilton was just a regular guy with a regular job when he read Bringing Down the House and decided he wanted to do what the players in that book did. A journey through the inner world
Throughout history, gambling has served as the subject for hundreds of compelling and robust portrayals by celebrated artists such as Cezanne, Picasso, Van Gogh, Degas, de la Tour, Remington, and Neim
