Author: Agnes Canestri
Publisher: Agnes Canestri
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
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Brains vs. Heartđź’”: A Hilarious Showdown for Love's Crown Meet Ryan, the mega-rich, cool-headed businessman who's always believed in keeping emotions on the back burner. That is, until he crosses paths with the vivacious and wonderfully unconventional Bianca at Sapphire, the hottest jazz spot in town. Suddenly, his meticulously calculated life starts to waver, and he realizes that there's more than just profit to be gained. Bianca, the passionate manager of Sapphire, lives by the mantra of embracing emotions and cherishing her work. But when the formidable tycoon Ryan sets his sights on taking over her beloved jazz haven, Bianca concocts a daring scheme to safeguard what she holds dear. Amid delectable Italian cuisine and the golden melodies of jazz, they uncover a connection that threatens to rewrite the entire script of their lives. Can Ryan and Bianca give their hearts a cheeky encore performance and discover a love that defies any predefined menu? This sweet love adventure of Gambling with the Billionaire is a whirlwind of risks, sizzles, and spontaneous flair. It's a reminder that life orchestrates the most beautiful melodies when you find the perfect rhythm. Immerse yourself in this funky love story set to the swing of life!
Author: Sujeet Indap
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1635766761
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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It was the most brutal corporate restructuring in Wall Street history. The 2015 bankruptcy brawl for the storied casino giant, Caesars Entertainment, pitted brilliant and ruthless private equity legends against the world's most relentless hedge fund wizards. In the tradition of Barbarians at the Gate and The Big Short comes the riveting, multi-dimensional poker game between private equity firms and distressed debt hedge funds that played out from the Vegas Strip to Manhattan boardrooms to Chicago courthouses and even, for a moment, the halls of the United States Congress. On one side: Apollo Global Management and TPG Capital. On the other: the likes of Elliott Management, Oaktree Capital, and Appaloosa Management. The Caesars bankruptcy put a twist on the old-fashioned casino heist. Through a $27 billion leveraged buyout and a dizzying string of financial engineering transactions, Apollo and TPG—in the midst of the post-Great Recession slump—had seemingly snatched every prime asset of the company from creditors, with the notable exception of Caesars Palace. But Caesars’ hedge fund lenders and bondholders had scooped up the company’s paper for nickels and dimes. And with their own armies of lawyers and bankers, they were ready to do everything necessary to take back what they believed was theirs—if they could just stop their own infighting. These modern financiers now dominate the scene in Corporate America as their fight-to-the-death mentality continues to shock workers, politicians, and broader society—and even each other. In The Caesars Palace Coup, financial journalists Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap illuminate the brutal tactics of distressed debt mavens—vultures, as they are condemned—in the sale and purchase of even the biggest companies in the world with billions of dollars hanging in the balance.
Author: Mark Paul
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949642292
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly named Winning Colors who broke through the male-dominated world of horseracing, and a trio of gamblers who embark on an unforgettable adventure as epic as the horse's historic victory. It's Seabiscuit meets Narcos, and the best true-life gambling story ever tol
Author: David Clary
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813584566
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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Winner of the 2018 Current Events/Social Change Book Award from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner of the 2018 Bronze Current Events Book Award from the Independent Publisher Book Awards Generations ago, gambling in America was an illicit activity, dominated by gangsters like Benny Binion and Bugsy Siegel. Today, forty-eight out of fifty states permit some form of legal gambling, and America’s governors sit at the head of the gaming table. But have states become addicted to the revenue gambling can bring? And does the potential of increased revenue lead them to place risky bets on new casinos, lotteries, and online games? In Gangsters to Governors, journalist David Clary investigates the pros and cons of the shift toward state-run gambling. Unearthing the sordid history of America’s gaming underground, he demonstrates the problems with prohibiting gambling while revealing how today’s governors, all competing for a piece of the action, promise their citizens payouts that are rarely delivered. Clary introduces us to a rogue’s gallery of colorful characters, from John “Old Smoke” Morrissey, the Irish-born gangster who built Saratoga into a gambling haven in the nineteenth century, to Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate who has furiously lobbied against online betting. By exploring the controversial histories of legal and illegal gambling in America, he offers a fresh perspective on current controversies, including bans on sports and online betting. Entertaining and thought-provoking, Gangsters to Governors considers the past, present, and future of our gambling nation. Author's website (http://www.davidclaryauthor.com)
Author: William C. Rempel
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062456792
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Offers an entertaining look at Kerkorian’s outsize life… an interesting portrait of a billionaire.” – Wall Street Journal The rags-to-riches story of one of America’s wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian—the daring aviator, movie mogul, risk-taker, and business tycoon who transformed Las Vegas and Hollywood to become one of the leading financiers in American business. Kerkorian combined the courage of a World War II pilot, the fortitude of a scrappy boxer, the cunning of an inscrutable poker player and an unmatched genius for making deals. He never put his name on a building, but when he died he owned almost every major hotel and casino in Las Vegas. He envisioned and fostered a new industry —the leisure business. Three times he built the biggest resort hotel in the world. Three times he bought and sold the fabled MGM Studios, forever changing the way Hollywood does business. His early life began as far as possible from a place on the Forbes List of Billionaires when he and his Armenian immigrant family lost their farm to foreclosure. He was four. They arrived in Los Angeles penniless and moved often, staying one step ahead of more evictions. Young Kirk learned English on the streets of L.A., made pennies hawking newspapers and dropped out after eighth grade. How he went on to become one of the richest and most generous men in America—his net worth as much as $20 billion—is a story largely unknown to the world. That’s because what Kerkorian valued most was his privacy. His very private life turned to tabloid fodder late in life when a former professional tennis player falsely claimed that the eighty-five-year-old billionaire fathered her child. In this engrossing biography, investigative reporter William C. Rempel digs deep into Kerkorian’s long-guarded history to introduce a man of contradictions—a poorly educated genius for deal-making, an extraordinarily shy man who made the boldest of business ventures, a careful and calculating investor who was willing to bet everything on a single roll of the dice. Unlike others of his status and importance, Kerkorian made few public appearances and strenuously avoided personal publicity. His friends and associates, however, were some of the biggest names in business, entertainment, and sports—among them Howard Hughes, Ted Turner, Steve Wynn, Michael Milken, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, Mike Tyson, and Andre Agassi. When he died in 2015 two years shy of the century mark, Kerkorian had outlived many of his closest friends and associates. Now, Rempel meticulously pieces together revealing fragments of Kerkorian’s life, collected from diverse sources—war records, business archives, court documents, news clippings and the recollections and recorded memories of longtime pals and relatives. In The Gambler, Rempel illuminates this unknown, self-made man and his inspiring legacy as never before.
Author: Phil Watts
Publisher: Australian Academic Press
ISBN: 1925644189
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 107
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Walking through the doors of a casino can feel like entering a portal into another dimension. A cacophony of electronic and human sounds assaults the ears as you watch people transacting large amounts of money. But this is no ordinary purchasing of goods or services where you quietly wave a card or hand out notes from a purse. Instead, money is swapped for colourful plastic chips that are placed, pushed, and thrown onto gaming tables with seemingly reckless abandon by a wide array of people, young, old, cultured, relaxed, happy, and grim. Phil Watts, as an experienced forensic psychologist, knew a lot about human nature before he walked into his first casino at 40 years of age. He had treated clients with a wide range of difficulties including gambling, yet was still struck by the casino environment — an exciting world with its own culture, pace, rules, social etiquette, and shared expectations. This other world intrigued and surprised him. So, he wrote a book about it. Casino Life will be of interest to those who seeking to know more about casinos and their psychological effects, those who seek to find out why others gamble, and those who do gamble — not as a treatment, but as a window to see what you are doing and how that has an impact upon you. Along the way you will read about why people gamble, why gambling can become addictive and the treatments used to help problem gamblers, as well as the beliefs around gambling and some of the elaborate theories people use to explain why they try to defy mathematical odds. You will also learn about the fascinating cultural and behavioural patterns of everyday casino life.
Author: Lexy Timms
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Moonrise Key. Playground of the rich and famous. As the owner of a successful security firm, Jack Landry has a reputation for being ruthless and coldly efficient. He's never backed down from a dangerous situation. And nothing is more dangerous than his mission to infiltrate the elite inner circle of one of Moonrise Key's power players. To get closer to his target Jack gets in on an illegal poker game, but his plans are quickly thwarted. Despite his addiction to danger, nothing could have prepared him for winning the ultimate prize: a billionaire's daughter. When heiress Cassandra Monahan discovers that her father lost her in a card game, she's furious. Worst of all, instead of being repulsed by the man who's won her she discovers an undeniable attraction. Cassandra finds herself drawn to Jack Landry's smoldering intensity. Scarred and tattooed, Jack is nothing like the trust fund playboys she's dated. Jack has lived his life fearing nothing except getting attached. Cassandra stands to inherit a vast fortune, so a fling with a mysterious stranger just isn't in the cards. But when Jack has to choose between his secret mission and the woman he's won, how much of his heart is he willing to gamble? The Gentleman's Club Series Book 1 – Gambler Book 2 – Player Book 3 – Wager Search Terms: complete collections, romance box sets, saga romance, women's saga, Vigilante Justice Thrillers, Lexy Timms, sagas, new adult, billionaire boys club, romantic comedy, humor, bad boy romance, steamy, steamy romance, romance, paranormal new adult romance, dark romance, cheating, billionaire romance, melody anne billionaire bachelors series, billionaire obsession, billionaire obsession, Alpha Bad Boy, bad boys, Biker gang romance, Vegas, women's humorous fiction, big beautiful women, saga, gambling, sweet love story, romance love, romance love triangle, new adult romance, contemporary romance and sex, romance billionaire series, free kindle romance, BBW, workplace romance, Billionaire, fake billionaire, sexy, hot and steamy, sport romance, hired wife, fake girlfriend, happily ever after, holiday, holiday romance, true love, love and life, billionaire romance, motorcycle club romance, billionaire romance, famous actor, hot romance, hot doctors, bad boy, Alpha male romance, contemporary romance
Author: Benny J. Berry
Publisher: Prosper Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780964298408
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Author: Kira Sinclair
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369724038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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She doesn’t trust him. He doesn’t trust anyone. Will these enemies give in to temptation? Find out in the latest Vegas-set romance from Kira Sinclair. Is falling for the enemy in the cards? The stakes couldn’t be higher. For card shark turned tech tycoon Luca Kilpatrick, it’s ironic to take a job catching the thief who’s stealing from Annalise Mercado’s casino. That’s because he’s never forgiven her family for accusing him of cheating. But he owes a friend this favor, and he’ll deliver, even as the heat simmering between him and Annalise becomes highly inconvenient. It’s tough to stay focused on helping his enemy’s casino when he’s enjoying nights in her bed! Will trusting each other be too much of a gamble? From Harlequin Desire: A luxurious world of bold encounters and sizzling chemistry. You’ll be swept away by this bold, sizzling romance, part of the Bad Billionaires series: Book 1: The Rebel's Redemption Book 2: The Devil's Bargain Book 3: The Sinner's Secret Book 4: Blame It on Vegas
Author: Avery Flynn
Publisher: Entangled: Indulgence
ISBN: 1622665503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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If that man calls her one more time... So what if Gabe Campos is a model-dating billionaire who gets Keisha Jacobs hotter than a Ferrari's engine on the straightaway? He keeps pushing her to sell her family's furniture business, but she'll never give in—not unless she wants to give her father a second heart attack. All Gabe should be thinking about is how he'll finally get revenge on the man who killed his father. But when he meets the man's daughter, Keisha, instead of focusing on destroying Jacobs Fine Furnishings, he can't get her warm-whisky voice out of his mind. Forced by a snow storm to spend the night together, their passion ignites. The next day, however, it's back to business. The only way Keisha can save her family is to win a bet with the billionaire. But neither realized their hearts are part of the bargain...
