Author: Brett Duval Fromson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786262113
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A bracing work of investigative journalism explores the lucrative world of Indian casino gaming, the wheelings and dealings behind America's most controversial Indian tribe, and the highest-grossing casino in the world.
Hitting the Jackpot
Author: Brett Duval Fromson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786262113
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A bracing work of investigative journalism explores the lucrative world of Indian casino gaming, the wheelings and dealings behind America's most controversial Indian tribe, and the highest-grossing casino in the world.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786262113
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A bracing work of investigative journalism explores the lucrative world of Indian casino gaming, the wheelings and dealings behind America's most controversial Indian tribe, and the highest-grossing casino in the world.
Hitting the Lottery Jackpot
Author: David Nibert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Hitting the Lottery Jackpot is a timely critique of the economic and social costs of state reliance on lotteries to generate public revenues. David Nibert highlights the conflicting role of the state as gambling promoter, to show who really profits -- advertising agencies, TV stations, and ticket vendors -- and who loses: lower-income groups and people of color. He also explores the ideological dimensions of the "get-rich-quick" individualism the state promotes among the very groups who would be better served by political action and solidarity.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Hitting the Lottery Jackpot is a timely critique of the economic and social costs of state reliance on lotteries to generate public revenues. David Nibert highlights the conflicting role of the state as gambling promoter, to show who really profits -- advertising agencies, TV stations, and ticket vendors -- and who loses: lower-income groups and people of color. He also explores the ideological dimensions of the "get-rich-quick" individualism the state promotes among the very groups who would be better served by political action and solidarity.
Jackpot
Author: Nic Stone
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 1984829653
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dear Martin--which Angie Thomas, the bestselling author of The Hate U Give, called "a must read"--comes a pitch-perfect romance that examines class, privilege, and how a stroke of good luck can change an entire life. Meet Rico: high school senior and afternoon-shift cashier at the Gas 'n' Go, who after school and work races home to take care of her younger brother. Every. Single. Day. When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she--with some assistance from her popular and wildly rich classmate Zan--can find the ticket holder who hasn't claimed the prize. But what happens when have and have-nots collide? Will this investigative duo unite...or divide? Nic Stone, the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out, creates two unforgettable characters in one hard-hitting story about class, money--both too little and too much--and how you make your own luck in the world. "Funny, captivating, and thoughtful." --The Atlantic.com
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 1984829653
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dear Martin--which Angie Thomas, the bestselling author of The Hate U Give, called "a must read"--comes a pitch-perfect romance that examines class, privilege, and how a stroke of good luck can change an entire life. Meet Rico: high school senior and afternoon-shift cashier at the Gas 'n' Go, who after school and work races home to take care of her younger brother. Every. Single. Day. When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she--with some assistance from her popular and wildly rich classmate Zan--can find the ticket holder who hasn't claimed the prize. But what happens when have and have-nots collide? Will this investigative duo unite...or divide? Nic Stone, the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out, creates two unforgettable characters in one hard-hitting story about class, money--both too little and too much--and how you make your own luck in the world. "Funny, captivating, and thoughtful." --The Atlantic.com
The Secrets to Hitting More Jackpots
Author: Theslotguru
Publisher: Xlibris Us
ISBN: 9781462855605
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
HOW DO I HONESTLY FEEL ABOUT MY JOB AS A PROFESSIONAL GAMBLER? I love it, it's exhilarating for me. Yes, I have bad days but the good ones far out weigh the bad ones... it's all about my mindset and how I am in my world, life is not just the casino!!!!!!! I don't go every night... when the time is right, I'm off to work!! I love being a gamer! As I walk in I never know how the night will end. I never know how much I may win. The thrill of the unknown is awesome, You have to love it or hate it? And if you want good Karma, you do not hate anything, right? Trust me.
Publisher: Xlibris Us
ISBN: 9781462855605
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
HOW DO I HONESTLY FEEL ABOUT MY JOB AS A PROFESSIONAL GAMBLER? I love it, it's exhilarating for me. Yes, I have bad days but the good ones far out weigh the bad ones... it's all about my mindset and how I am in my world, life is not just the casino!!!!!!! I don't go every night... when the time is right, I'm off to work!! I love being a gamer! As I walk in I never know how the night will end. I never know how much I may win. The thrill of the unknown is awesome, You have to love it or hate it? And if you want good Karma, you do not hate anything, right? Trust me.
Jackpot!
Author: Robert L. Shook
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The inside story of the gaming company that hit the jackpot playing by its own rules Robert L. Shook, a New York Times bestselling author, delves into the business behind one of the world's foremost gaming and entertainment companies, Harrah's. Since Bill Harrah took over a small card game business in 1937, Harrah's has become a top casino, dominating Nevada and beyond. The first gaming company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Harrah's is a $4 billion-dollar business driven by smart marketing and smarter leadership. This book is the first to examine Harrah's and its leader, a man who dominated an industry and amassed a staggering fortune while refusing to deal with mobsters and corrupt politicians. Though Bill Harrah died in 1978 and the company has since been sold, Harrah's has retained its sense of history and remained an industry leader. Following the company's growth, Shook uncovers rich business lessons about marketing and customer loyalty, increasing market share in fiercely competitive industries, and maintaining a sense of integrity in a cutthroat business world. This is a compelling and intriguing story of a company that gambled and won, and it offers business readers an opportunity to benefit from the hard-won lessons of a paragon of the entertainment industry. Robert L. Shook (Columbus, OH) is a seasoned business journalist and the ghostwriter behind several New York Times bestsellers. He is the founder and former CEO of Shook Associates and the American Executive Life Insurance Company. He is the author or coauthor of thirty-five books, including The IBM Way, Mary Kay on People Management, and Mary Kay's You Can Have It All.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The inside story of the gaming company that hit the jackpot playing by its own rules Robert L. Shook, a New York Times bestselling author, delves into the business behind one of the world's foremost gaming and entertainment companies, Harrah's. Since Bill Harrah took over a small card game business in 1937, Harrah's has become a top casino, dominating Nevada and beyond. The first gaming company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Harrah's is a $4 billion-dollar business driven by smart marketing and smarter leadership. This book is the first to examine Harrah's and its leader, a man who dominated an industry and amassed a staggering fortune while refusing to deal with mobsters and corrupt politicians. Though Bill Harrah died in 1978 and the company has since been sold, Harrah's has retained its sense of history and remained an industry leader. Following the company's growth, Shook uncovers rich business lessons about marketing and customer loyalty, increasing market share in fiercely competitive industries, and maintaining a sense of integrity in a cutthroat business world. This is a compelling and intriguing story of a company that gambled and won, and it offers business readers an opportunity to benefit from the hard-won lessons of a paragon of the entertainment industry. Robert L. Shook (Columbus, OH) is a seasoned business journalist and the ghostwriter behind several New York Times bestsellers. He is the founder and former CEO of Shook Associates and the American Executive Life Insurance Company. He is the author or coauthor of thirty-five books, including The IBM Way, Mary Kay on People Management, and Mary Kay's You Can Have It All.
Slot Machine Strategy
Author: MacIntyre Symms
Publisher: Globe Pequot
ISBN: 9781592283729
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A professional gambler offers tips to make even a beginner more successful at beating the one-armed bandit.
Publisher: Globe Pequot
ISBN: 9781592283729
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A professional gambler offers tips to make even a beginner more successful at beating the one-armed bandit.
Jackpot
Author: Jason Ryan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762767995
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In the late 1970s and early '80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song. These irrepressible adventurers unloaded nearly a billion dollars worth of marijuana and hashish through the eastern seaboard’s marshes. Then came their undoing: Operation Jackpot, one of the largest drug investigations ever and an opening volley in Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs. In Jackpot, author Jason Ryan takes us back to the heady days before drug smuggling was synonymous with deadly gunplay. During this golden age of marijuana trafficking, the country’s most prominent kingpins were a group of wayward and fun-loving Southern gentlemen who forsook college educations to sail drug-laden luxury sailboats across the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean. Les Riley, Barry Foy, and their comrades eschewed violence as much as they loved pleasure, and it was greed, lust, and disaster at sea that ultimately caught up with them, along with the law. In a cat-and-mouse game played out in exotic locations across the globe, the smugglers sailed through hurricanes, broke out of jail and survived encounters with armed militants in Colombia, Grenada and Lebanon. Based on years of research and interviews with imprisoned and recently released smugglers and the law enforcement agents who tracked them down, Jackpot is sure to become a classic story from America's controversial Drug Wars. “The adventures, the long-gone economy, and the sting that ultimately brought them down and changed US drug policy are meticulously documented and lucidly spun…. Part New Yorker feature-part Jimmy Buffet song. . . . The result is adventuresome, lavish, informative fun.” —GQ “[A] rollicking story, Ryan manages to pack in one amusing tale after another.... Jackpot is a rip-roaring good read.” —Charleston City Paper “High times on the high seas: Investigative reporter Ryan recounts the glory days of dope smuggling and their terrible denouement.... A well-told tale of true crime that provides a few good arguments for why it should not be a crime at all.” —Kirkus Reviews “Reads like an international thriller. . . . chock-a-block with hilarious and hair-raising anecdotes of fast times.” —New York Journal of Books “[A] thoroughly researched account of Operation Jackpot, the drug investigation that ended the reign of South Carolina’s ‘gentlemen smugglers,’.... Ryan recreates the era with a vivid, sun-drenched intensity.” —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762767995
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In the late 1970s and early '80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song. These irrepressible adventurers unloaded nearly a billion dollars worth of marijuana and hashish through the eastern seaboard’s marshes. Then came their undoing: Operation Jackpot, one of the largest drug investigations ever and an opening volley in Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs. In Jackpot, author Jason Ryan takes us back to the heady days before drug smuggling was synonymous with deadly gunplay. During this golden age of marijuana trafficking, the country’s most prominent kingpins were a group of wayward and fun-loving Southern gentlemen who forsook college educations to sail drug-laden luxury sailboats across the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean. Les Riley, Barry Foy, and their comrades eschewed violence as much as they loved pleasure, and it was greed, lust, and disaster at sea that ultimately caught up with them, along with the law. In a cat-and-mouse game played out in exotic locations across the globe, the smugglers sailed through hurricanes, broke out of jail and survived encounters with armed militants in Colombia, Grenada and Lebanon. Based on years of research and interviews with imprisoned and recently released smugglers and the law enforcement agents who tracked them down, Jackpot is sure to become a classic story from America's controversial Drug Wars. “The adventures, the long-gone economy, and the sting that ultimately brought them down and changed US drug policy are meticulously documented and lucidly spun…. Part New Yorker feature-part Jimmy Buffet song. . . . The result is adventuresome, lavish, informative fun.” —GQ “[A] rollicking story, Ryan manages to pack in one amusing tale after another.... Jackpot is a rip-roaring good read.” —Charleston City Paper “High times on the high seas: Investigative reporter Ryan recounts the glory days of dope smuggling and their terrible denouement.... A well-told tale of true crime that provides a few good arguments for why it should not be a crime at all.” —Kirkus Reviews “Reads like an international thriller. . . . chock-a-block with hilarious and hair-raising anecdotes of fast times.” —New York Journal of Books “[A] thoroughly researched account of Operation Jackpot, the drug investigation that ended the reign of South Carolina’s ‘gentlemen smugglers,’.... Ryan recreates the era with a vivid, sun-drenched intensity.” —Publishers Weekly
American Casino Guide
Author: Steve Bourie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883768140
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Published annually since 1992, the 2005 edition of this bestselling guide continues to gain fame as the best available source for information on U.S. casinos. The new 2005 edition lists more than 650 casinos in 35 states and comes complete with maps of all states showing where the casinos are located, plus detailed maps of Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno and the Mississippi gambling resort towns of Biloxi and Tunica.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883768140
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Published annually since 1992, the 2005 edition of this bestselling guide continues to gain fame as the best available source for information on U.S. casinos. The new 2005 edition lists more than 650 casinos in 35 states and comes complete with maps of all states showing where the casinos are located, plus detailed maps of Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno and the Mississippi gambling resort towns of Biloxi and Tunica.
Jackpot
Author: Michael Mechanic
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982127228
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit-and the insidious ways this realm harms us all"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982127228
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit-and the insidious ways this realm harms us all"--
Jackpots
Author: Brandt Eagleton
Publisher: Made For Success Publishing
ISBN: 164146691X
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
"HOW CAN I HIT THAT ONE-MILLION-DOLLAR JACKPOT?" "IS THERE A WAY TO MASTER THE ART OF GAMBLING ON SLOT MACHINES?" This might be easier than you think. Come and sit in the passenger seat as I take you on the ultimate ride-a-long, spilling all of my secrets on how to hit a huge jackpot along the way. Just call me your personal "Slot Machine Compass" guiding you in the right direction. This book will teach you how to find the right machine to play and how to make a good bet, when to stay on a machine and when to leave, and to decide how long to play a winning machine. Let me excite your curiosity and expand your bank account. Learn how to play longer and identify techniques that will ensure your success!
Publisher: Made For Success Publishing
ISBN: 164146691X
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
"HOW CAN I HIT THAT ONE-MILLION-DOLLAR JACKPOT?" "IS THERE A WAY TO MASTER THE ART OF GAMBLING ON SLOT MACHINES?" This might be easier than you think. Come and sit in the passenger seat as I take you on the ultimate ride-a-long, spilling all of my secrets on how to hit a huge jackpot along the way. Just call me your personal "Slot Machine Compass" guiding you in the right direction. This book will teach you how to find the right machine to play and how to make a good bet, when to stay on a machine and when to leave, and to decide how long to play a winning machine. Let me excite your curiosity and expand your bank account. Learn how to play longer and identify techniques that will ensure your success!