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Can you imagine betting a million dollars on a football game or winning seven million on a single horse race? Can you even fathom what it would be like to be the resident backgammon player at the Playboy Mansion or to win the World Series of Poker -- twice? How would you react if a gun-wielding casino owner demanded back the money that you won playing blackjack in his casino?

It's all in a day's work for the gamblers in this book.

Billy Walters--sports bettor
Chip Reese--poker player
Tommy Hyland--blackjack card counter
Mike Svobodny--backgammon player
Stan Tomchin--sports bettor
Cathy Hulbert--blackjack/poker player
Alan Woods--horse bettor
Doyle Brunson--poker player

It isn't luck. Collectively, they've won hundreds of millions of dollars playing the games most people consider unbeatable. Discover what it really takes to become a master gambler.

Gambling Wizards delves deeply into the lives and minds of some of the most successful professional gamblers of all time.