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Chargement... Double or Nothing: How Two Friends Risked It All to Buy One of Las Vegas' Legendary Casinospar Tom Breitling
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. http://educationanddeconstruction.com/?p=2437 Liked this book more than I expected to. Started it shortly after a trp to Vegas but didn't get into it. Then read it on Nook and couldn't read it quickly enough. Liked the inside look on casinos and enjoyed their back story. Curious to know where they are now. I've never seen Casino or heard of the author unlike some reviewers Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. This was a fun, easy-to-read story about two buddies and their commitment to each other and the dream to make it big in Vegas. In a very engaging way, the book communicates how, for these two friends, hard work, perseverance and risk-taking paid off. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. This is easy read, but a fascinating read. Two guys with lots of moxy and some dreams end up huge successes. Even if you are not interested in gambling the first part about they created a web based hotel booking company and sold it to Expedia will snag you right up. It interesting because it also concerns a subject matter that I wasn't that familiar with. This book may inspire you. It has been 4 years since the show The Casino aired. Since then Tom Breitling and his best friend Cal Fussman have made another million after selling the Golden Nugget. Double or Nothing is the story of two best friends who went from rags to riches to accomplish unbelievable success. Breitling shows that there is a lot more behind the scenes than The Casino let on. Breitling takes us on a whirlwind tour through the ups and downs of chasing a dream then selling it then doing it all again. This book is a fun read that let the author’s personality shine through. I did not know a lot about gambling when I started reading this book. It did not matter because whatever was needed to get the gist of the background was described beautifully. The description that appeared in this book are such that the energy and the enthusiasm and sometimes the grief of the author shines through. This book is an enjoyable book. Well worth the read. http://purplemoonmyst.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/double-or-nothing/ aucune critique | ajouter une critique
If Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn had come of age at the end of the 20th century looking for an all-American adventure, they probably would've headed for Vegas. They'd have been hard-pressed to go on a wilder ride than the one taken by Tom Breitling and Tim Poster to the top of the famed Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino. Call them the Odds Couple. Breitling is the kid who lives next door if you grow up in Burnsville, Minnesota. He never saw a hundred dollar bill or The Godfather until he went to college. Poster comes from a family of oddsmakers who reach for the Doritos on football Sundays and scream for the point spread. He was whistling Sinatra and booking games at his Las Vegas high school. Their unlikely friendship began in college over an $8 veal parmigiana sandwich that led to a partnership in a hotel reservation business. Starting with a desk, a chair, a pillow, and a telephone, Tim and Tom grew a company that they sold during the dot.com boom for $105 million. This allows Tim to pursue his childhood dream of owning a casino and bringing back the glory days of Vegas. When Tim ups the odds and raises the limits to give gamblers the best game in town, a craps player nicknamed "Mr. Royalty," who's on one of the hottest winning streaks in history, heads for The Nugget. When he begins to take Tom and Tim for millions, the partnership is put to the test. But Tim refuses to back off on the odds or the high limits, telling his partner, "It's a ballsy proposition here. It's gonna be a roller coaster ride. But we don't have a public company to answer to. It's just you and me." When Mr. Royalty rolls twenty-two consecutive passes and rakes in a mountain of chips, he takes Tim and Tom to the brink. They must figure out a way to hold up The House. Just as they do, the roller coaster ride really gets rolling--and the ride becomes crazier than they'd ever imagined. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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