Make Me Even

Author: Jerrold Fine
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504080599
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
For one 1970s teenager, winning at poker and winning on Wall Street go hand-in-hand: “A coming-of-age story for the ages.” —Peter Lattman, vice chairman, The Atlantic In the wake of his mother’s death, Rogers Stout has no choice but to grow up fast. By high school, he already has the gambler’s gifts: a titanic brain, an uncanny ability to read people, and a risk-taker’s daring. All he lacks is direction . . . Everything changes the summer before his senior year when Rogers is invited into the boisterous environment of an investment bank’s trading room—and to a gambling hall dive where he immediately wins big at poker, capturing the attention of his coworkers with his card-playing skills. Intrigued by trading markets, Rogers’s intellectual curiosity takes him to Wharton and then Wall Street, where he faces challenges as an outsider who thinks and acts differently from the white-shoe establishment. Riding professional and personal highs and lows—like the stock market crash of 1974—he’ll have to learn to rebound, if he’s to survive . . . An intriguing look at human aspiration and the interplay of honor, greed, fear, and individuality, this novel reveals a time when a new generation upended the status quo on Wall Street and forever changed investing. “A rip-roaring yarn of baseball, poker, and Wall Street told with humor and humanity, and a loving rendering of Wharton in the seventies.” —Geoffrey Garrett, dean, The Wharton School “[An] absorbing story of an aspiring Wall Street trader.” —Kirkus Reviews

Poker

Author:
Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 491

Book Description

Poker World

Author: Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher: Nicolae Sfetcu
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
Introduction in poker: online poker, rules, hands, strategy, cheating, casino, tournaments, poker jargon, equipment, gambling, resources. Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring or hard and impersonal. It is fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just. -- Lou Krieger

The Everyday Guide to Recreational Poker

Author: Ron Greiner
Publisher: Poker Endeavors
ISBN: 9780976970309
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
How to play recreational Poker and keep it FUN, FAIR, and FRIENDLY. The perfect "how to" and reference guide for Poker Party novices and aficionados alike. Covers all the important aspects of recreational Poker: play, game rules, statistics, betting, house rules, etc., and contains a large inventory of Poker games and their variations. Excellent detailed resource written for wide audience appeal.

Welcome to Four Way

Author: Kent R. Brown
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871293039
Category : American drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description

Cobwebs: A Suspense Novel

Author: Mary Coley
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1627870261
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
Jamie Aldrich has never heard of the Osage Reign of Terror, the horrible kidnappings and murders of the oil-rich members of the Osage Tribe in the 1920s, the FBI's first case. All that changes when she returns to Pawhuska, Oklahoma after a thirty-year absence to check on her great aunt Elizabeth. Soon after her arrival, Elizabeth tells Jamie, "my whole life has been a sham." Minutes later, her aunt lies in a coma, the victim of an attack. Jamie has no idea who would want to harm her aunt, but it becomes clear that the danger hasn't passed. While Elizabeth remains in the hospital, Jamie is repeatedly threatened and meets with several strange "accidents." The longer she stays, the more she feels she can’t trust anyone in Pawhuska -- not even Sam, the first man she's had feelings for since her husband died. Will Jamie be able to discover the truth before both she and Elizabeth are silenced forever?

A Gambling Guide

Author: Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher: Nicolae Sfetcu
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 975

Book Description
Gambling as a betting action – wagering money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money or material goods. A guide about what is gambling (with a special section for online gambling), casino games with both beatable casino games (poker , blackjack, video poker with progressive jackpot, pai gow poker, sports betting, horse racing – parimutuel, slot machines and other gambling machines) and unbeatable casino games (baccarat, craps, roulette, keno, casino war, faro, pachinko, sic bo, let it ride, 3-card poker, 4-card poker, red dog, Caribbean stud poker, etc.), and non-casino gambling games (bingo, lottery, mahjong, backgammon, bridge, etc.). Fixed-odds gambling in sports is also present in this book with horse racing, greyhound racing, football (particularly association football, American football and rugby), golf, tennis, cricket, baseball, basketball, ice hockey, snooker, motor sports, boxing, darts, cross-country skiing and biathlon. Please, don’t forget to take a look to the legality of the gambling and online gambling, as well as to the articles, warnings and links dedicated to the gambling addiction. Extreme cases of problem gambling may cross over into the realm of mental disorders.

So I Go Now

Author: Jeff Jacobson
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412203295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151

Book Description
"I see him riding in on a Harley, the Jesus of my day. His hair is long and wild from the wind and it looks like he's been on the road for a while. But his eyes are still bright, and he smiles when he sees me. I guess he travels light because his saddlebags are mostly empty..." Take a ride with a man who is forced to discover what a modern day Jesus would do; where he would go and what he would wear. Would he have tattoos, and if so, how many? What type of people would he hang with, and what might cause a scandal if he were doing it right here and now? Experience a journey on the back of a Harley - a ride where faith and fiction collide with the non-fiction that sustains it; where imagination becomes wonder, and wonder itself leads to action.

The SS WESTERN SEA

Author: Thomas Archer
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326609025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
In the early 1980s, while America was reeling from the chaos caused by the second major fabricated oil shortage in history, Tom Archer, climbed aboard the SS WESTERN SEA, the first and largest Ultra Large Crude Carrier in the American fleet. Displacing over 400,000 tons, she was designed to stockpile 3,000,000 barrels of crude oil in floating storage, starving the refineries and driving oil prices up. As the new second officer and navigator his job was to safely take this behemoth, too large and deep for any American port, to the worlds deep water refineries, storage facilities and production ports, often transferring the oil at anchor or underway at sea due to the lack of those facilities in most regions. The evidence of the manipulation of the U.S. oil supply can be found in the log books of these ships and in the personal logs of the officers. This is the story of those voyages, during the middle of the crisis, coming directly from the navigator's personal log.

The Crow's Nest

Author: Isabel James
Publisher: Linzi Basset
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
A journey of unbridled passion and emotional discoveries to find love is proof that you’re never to old to find true, soul-depth kind of love. Jack Cavallaro “It’s not your p*ssy, baby. It’s mine. You just get to wear it.” It was Kismet. A one-in-a-million chance encounter. Stopping in for a quick double shot espresso, then suddenly, magically, there she was―a beautiful brunette across the room at Cafe Des Artiste on the upper Westside of Manhattan. Liz Bennet “Well, hell, honey, if I have to explain it, I must be doing something seriously wrong.” In New York on a business trip, she had no intention of becoming entangled in an affair with anyone. But the second she touched his hand, that notion died instantly when the surge of an electrical current ripped through her core, leaving her stunned. One fortuitous meeting unleashed their wildest fantasies and sealed their fate. They threw caution to the wind and leapt together into the void on an emotional journey that would change their destiny forever. Fate intervened when Jack’s past caught up with them. Will Liz’s mistrust and Jack’s unwillingness to acknowledge the truth tear their newfound love apart? Will he be able to keep her safe when the characters from his past show up for revenge? Two people, searching for the right one for an entire lifetime, play the odds to discover the truth. Will they find it this late in life? Can they prove to themselves that one is never too old to find love? Or would a black hole of emotional scars and demons completely crush them? This story is a journey filled with the discovery of raw emotions and unbridled eroticism between two lovers who have given up on finding love.