The Bonus Bandit
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The Bonus Bandit
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True stories from the long, crooked history of gambling: the card sharps, con kings and mob bookkeepers who built this business, and the lessons their downfalls left behind. Every tale ends with what the Bandit takes from it.
Deadwood, 1876. The most famous poker hand in history was never finished.
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A terminal diagnosis at 21 turned a Georgia dentist into the most dangerous faro dealer in the West.
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He ran a gold rush town on rigged games and a fake telegraph office, until the town ran out of patience.
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A New York gunman spent six million mob dollars on a casino in the sand. It cost him everything and built modern Las Vegas.
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A Texas crime boss reinvented himself on Fremont Street and accidentally created poker's world championship.
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The last great mob casino operation: pension fund money, a count room with a side door, and the crackdown that ended an era.
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