gambling

Monica is already nervous about riding in her first horse show, and when she finds out that Rory is betting on her performance it only increases the pressure she feels.

En route to join their mother in the desert, thirteen-year-old Jamie and her older brother pick up a hitchhiker with a bag of money and soon find themselves helping to place a $12,000 bet in Las Vegas.

Teenager Kip Breaker falls in love with a fascinating girl named Joey, but his happiness is shortlived after Joey's father introduces him to the world of high-stakes gambling.

The Victorian tale of Little Nell, a girl who is uprooted from her secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world of evil when she and her grandfather are pursued relentlessly through England by the evil and loathsome dwarf Quilp.

Examines the arguments in favor of and opposed to legalized gambling, looking at various types of gambling, problems of compulsive gamblers, the lure of this activity, and more.

Chronicles gambling's story from ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first-century television and Internet gaming, describing developments throughout the world in such areas as card games, wagers on horse racing and other sporting events, lotteries, and casinos and discussing related topics such as organized crime and gambling's impact on cities such as Las Vegas as well as American history.

Chronicles the story of Chris Moneymaker, a Tennessee accountant who enjoyed gambling, only playing the game since college, and describes how he won the 2003 World Series of Poker by turning forty dollars into 2.5 million.

Presents fourteen essays on gambling's place in pop culture, discussing the history of the Las Vegas Strip, the changing face of casino owners and gamblers, and different types of casinos, including ones on the Internet, and includes an introductory overview and annotated further reading list.

Describes how a group of overachieving, anarchist MIT students joined a decades-old underground blackjack club dedicated to counting cards and beating the system at major casinos around the world, managed to legally take several Las Vegas casinos for more than three million dollars.