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Link | Buy from AmazonTheir 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.
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Note for the author: wrapped-in-plastic vacuum-sealed bundles of notes are not going to come from the Mint. The Mint is in charge of coins. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (http://www.bep.treas.gov) is in charge of bills. I'm guessing the vacuum wrapping is either the Federal Reserve or Mr. Royalty's bank. Exciting read through chapter 1, though.
I agree....on the exciting reading part. I think "Mr. Royalty" must have sold his soul. How else to explain the walking in and hitting $100,000 on a slot machine even before hitting the dice!?!?
W.T.F.??
I don't get the cover. Those are gameboard dice instead of 'casino' dice.
Exciting indeed, but is this all supposed to be taken at face value? The whole "Mr Royalty" deal is quite simply statistically impossible, especially with a streak supposedly extending to several casinos. Either cheating or fiction is at play, so which is it? Surely someone with such preposterous "luck" would have made headlines, so does anybody know this guy's identity? Or maybe this is somehow resolved in the book?
And when they say "read on-line" they mean it. You go to the Web site and they present the book inside some kind of flash-like application.
Harshed my mellow. I was hoping for a download and to read it away from the computer.
Then again, it worked. Just reading the first chapter has me convinced to buy the book.
You know...those dice look a lot like the final blend of this tutorial [wiki.blender.org]
Just saying.
The trolls are out in force aren't they?
This looks like an interesting book... too bad I won't be reading it. Im all for the idea of making stuff free & online for people to read even just for a while, and I was rather gung ho on the idea of reading American Gods again when it was posted on here that it was available to be read, but the UI and format that it was put into turned me off of it so terribly I stopped after only a page or two... I load up this one and see its the same thing (even before everything is loaded) I just closed the tab. Its like attempting to read a book physically fixed to a desk while your fingers are in thumbscrews. Id rather get a copy from the library, scan it page by page OCR the images and then read it, because THAT is less of a hassle.
Does anyone have a guess who Mr. Royalty is? The author hints at him being well known.