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The Odds: One Season, Three Gamblers, and the Death of Their Las Vegas

by Chad Millman

A season on the betting line in Las Vegas

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Awards & Recognition

  • Critical praise

    Praise from The Las Vegas Review-Journal

    The book is described as “Superb.”

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A season on the betting line in Las Vegas

Chad Millman traces three professional gamblers across a college basketball season, using their differing circumstances to frame a portrait of gambling as work. Their stories unfold in Las Vegas, a city the description presents as balancing its lawless history against a more family-oriented image. The basketball season provides the book’s organizing thread, while the three profiles connect individual lives to the wider world of sports betting and the changing identity of the city.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in professional sports gambling and bookmaker culture.
  • Readers curious about Las Vegas and its shift in public image.
  • Readers who enjoy nonfiction organized around several lives over a single sports season.

Themes

Professional gamblingCollege basketballLas Vegas and changing civic identity

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Book overview

One gambler is a manic former cokehead with an Ivy League degree. The second is a college dropout trying to make a living at the only thing he enjoyed at school--gambling. The third, one of Vegas's most respected bookmakers, is perilously close to burning out. The Odds follows the lives of these three professional gamblers through a college basketball season in a one-of-a-kind city struggling to reconcile its lawless past with its family-friendly makeover. With a wiseguy attitude and a faultless eye and ear for the sights and sounds of Vegas and its denizens, Chad Millman has created a portrait that the Wall Street Journal called "fascinating. . . often screamingly funny." The Las Vegas Review-Journal had just one word for the book: "Superb."

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