Spiegel Grau | ISBN:0385526466 | File Type: PDF, 240 pages | File size: 30.Mb | Oct. 2nd, 2012
General Gambling: A Story about Gamblers An eye popping and hilarious joyride through the underworld of sports betting Beth Raymer arrived in Las Vegas in 2001 hoping to land a job as a cocktail waitress at one of the big casinos In the meantime she lived in a 17 a night motel with her dog Otis and waited tables at a low rent Thai restaurant One day one of her regar customers told her about a job she thought Beth wod be perfect for and sent her to see Dink of Dink Inc Dink was a professional sports gambler one of the biggest in Vegas He was looking for a right hand man someone who wod show up on time who had a head for numbers and who didn t steal She got the job Lay the Favorite is the story of Beth Raymer s years in the high stakes high anxiety world of sports betting a period that saw the fall of the local bookie and the rise of the freewheeling unregated offshore sports book and with it the elevation of sports betting in popar cture As the business explodes Beth rises from assistant to expert trusted and seasoned enough to open an offshore booking office in the Caribbean with a few associates men who leave their families up north to make a quick killing while donning new tropical personas fueled by abundant drugs and local girlfriends and who one by one succumb to their vices They lie cheat steal and run until Beth is the last man standing Beth Raymer is a natural storyteller funny charming and fly awake to the ironies around her But she is also a keen and compassionate observer of the adrenaline addicted rougish types who become her mentors her enemies her family Raymer brings to life a world that teems with pathos and ecstasy in this wild picaresque that also tells the story of a young woman s crazy sexy most unlikely coming of age From the Hardcover edition
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