Author: David Harris
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300092637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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DeJuan Walker is tired of settling for two-bit hustles on Chicago's south side. When he decides to relocate to Florida, he reinvents himself as "Dee Walk" and sets up his own organization for selling drugs and funnelling the money into the community. Things get tense when a rival sets him up for the murder of a SWAT team.
Author: Ben Jacobs
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533513182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Coming from the streets, Lick knows what it takes to be a hustler. After learning the game of Tunk from his mom's card parties at an early age, Lick becomes addictive to the lifestyle to make some big time money. He begins to play Tunk every chance he gets, no matter how small the wager. Showcasing his talents in this game in many parts of the world, it seems nothing could slow him down from this obsessed lifestyle. Life was good, until an unimaginable and unthinkable event hit him out of nowhere. Threaten and betrayed, he has no choice but to play the game of his life to save the life of someone near and dear to him, in a once in a lifetime Tunk game. Is Lick up for the challenge, or will the challenge destroy him! This book is intended for mature audiences.
Author: Derek DelGaudio
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593081110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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Truth and lies are two sides of the same coin. But who's flipping it? A thought-provoking and brilliantly entertaining work of nonfiction from one of the world's leading deceivers, the creator and star of the astonishing theater show and forthcoming film In & Of Itself. Derek DelGaudio believed he was a decent, honest man. But when irrefutable evidence to the contrary is found in an old journal, his memories are reawakened and Derek is forced to confront--and try to understand--his role in a significant act of deception from his past. Using his youthful notebook entries as a road map, Derek embarks on a soulful, often funny, sometimes dark journey, retracing the path that led him to a world populated by charlatans, card cheats, and con artists. As stories are peeled away and artifices are revealed, Derek examines the mystery behind his father's vanishing act, the secret he inherited from his mother, the obsession he developed with sleight-of-hand that shaped his future, and the affinity he felt for the professional swindlers who taught him how to deceive others. And once he finds himself working as a crooked dealer in a big-money Hollywood card game, Derek begins to question his own sense of morality, and discovers that even a master of deception can find himself trapped inside an illusion. A M O R A L M A N is a wildly engaging exploration of the fictions we live as truths. It is ultimately a book about the lies we tell ourselves and the realities we manufacture in others.
Author: Bryan G. Prince Blanton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989748643
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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This book is written and dedicated to all of the young hustlers, gangsta's, and players who choose to participate in the ghetto game. Because what you don't know can surely kill you, therefore, it's about time to set the rules straight! "For it's a lot of you hustlers out there in the world, who's caught-up in the street game, but got the rules missing." Your father, uncles, or big brothers never had a chance to properly lace you in the game, so you guys are out there getting caught-up on stupid shit that is costing you your life. And a lot of you hustlers do have a lot of game and knowledge about yourself, but it's the things that you don't know or shall I say, that you never been properly exposed to that is getting you caught-up. And it's only right that I take the initiative to try to give you this wisdom and lace you in the Real Rules of life, which will broaden your understanding of the street game, and help you to better understand the consequences, pain, and scandalous deception that do exist out there. Hopefully, this will help you to make a logical decision on whether or not the game is for you? My only objective here is to educate you with the real and true facts that exist in the ghetto games. I'm not trying to inspire you to do wrong, nor do I encourage anyone to get involved in any type of criminal activities. I only desire to teach you the rules to the ghetto games, so that you can determine what is right or wrong for you! And make the decisions as to the path that you chose to take. I took mine, and it resulted in almost a lifetime in the prison system. And many others have made the same bad decisions and mistakes that I've made. That's why now; you have something that we never had that will provide you with a better understanding of the game that a lot of us who fucked our life off didn't have, a chance not to make that same mistake as we did. We all only have one life to live, and the choices that you make will surely determine the outcome of your journey through life. So in delivering this new and powerful urban message to you, it's only right that you pass this information along to your friends, comrades, family, brothers, and cousins! Because the more people who become aware of these very important rules, then the better the game would be, "No telling, this book might stop a young hustler from snitching on you, and others if he get's caught-up, or it might even save your life." The game is deep, and the more people who know about it, then the better off we all are. "Feel me!"
Author: David McCumber
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0380729237
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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At the age of 17, David McCumber was stricken with "road fever" that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two years later, he got the chance to follow that dream-not as a player but as the "stakehorse" (financial backer) for Tony Annigoni, a non-smoking, macrobiotic-eating "Renaissance Pool Hustler," student of Eastern religion, and master of the pure green-felt poetry of the dead stroke." With $27,000 in David's pocket they took off together on an astonishing four-month odyssey across America-traveling from seedy, hole-in-the-wall billiard parlors to high-class snooker rooms to high-tension pro tourneys, from Seattle to Miami and back again-exploring a shady twilight subculture and uniquely American mythos, in search of serious money, local glory...and the perfect hustle.
Author: Douglas Thompson
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330538780
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Invitations to John Aspinall and John Burke's illegal gambling parties were the most sought after in 1950s London - only the wealthy and well-connected were allowed past their door. When the police finally arrested them, Aspinall and Burke challenged the law - and won. As a result gambling was legalised. Which interested crime boss Billy Hill and his lieutenant Bobby McKew, because suddenly clubs sprang up everywhere and Billy had a foolproof way of fixing the cards. He also had his eye on the ultimate prize, Aspinall's exclusive new club, The Clermont... Revealing for the first time how Aspinall and Hill plotted to steal a fortune, based on testimony from Burke and McKew, The Hustlers is a riotous journey back to 50s and 60s London. With a cast of characters that ranges from safecracker Eddie Chapman to the reckless Earl of Derby, from croupier Louis the Rat to unlucky Lord Lucan, it vividly recreates the exploits of the gamblers and gangsters whose lives collided in the clubs and pubs of Mayfair. 'a fascinating glimpse into a bygone world . . . when chemmy parties took London by storm and toffs were often found to be rubbing shoulders with gangsters' Daily Express
Author: Azie Faison
Publisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 9780743282314
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A cautionary tale about the life of former kingpin Azie Faison, who has become the fabric of street legend Faison was a ninth grade dropout who earned more than $100,000 a week selling cocaine in Harlem, New York, during the peak of America's "War on Drugs" between 1983 and 1990. Faison, along with two partners, was an urban prince with cars, jewels, and people -- in awe of this million-dollar phenomenon -- at his feet. His legacy has been praised by hip-hop's top names in their lyrics, and his life was the basis for the urban cult classic film Paid in Full starring Mekhi Phifer, Wood Harris, and rapper Cam'ron and produced by Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Films. In Game Over, Azie brings forth a powerful memoir of New York's perilous drug underworld and music industry, with an intellect and wisdom to empower and challenge the street culture he knows so very well.
Author: Tristan Donovan
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250082730
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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"[A] timely book...It’s All a Game provides a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history."—The Wall Street Journal Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It’s All a Game, British journalist and renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across cultures, time periods, and continents, from the paranoid Chicago toy genius behind classics like Operation and Mouse Trap, to the role of Monopoly in helping prisoners of war escape the Nazis, and even the scientific use of board games today to teach artificial intelligence how to reason and how to win. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan ultimately reveals why board games--from chess to Monopoly to Settlers of Catan, and more--have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations.
Author: Jay Robert Nash
Publisher: M Evans & Company
ISBN: 9780871311887
Category : Fraud
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Anecdotal accounts of the most successful, most outrageous, and most expert scammers, flim-flammers, swindlers, and sharpers of the past two hundred years provide grist for Barnum's mill
Author: Titan Barca
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539616856
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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keep your trap house jumping and learn to maintain in the dangerous world of the inner city drug hustle. this series introduction. Is a candid look at Americas underground economy and the people and culture that created it.
