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Sto caricando le informazioni... Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker (2015)di Doug Swanson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I'm almost positive that I read this book a couple of years ago but it may have been one very similar to this one. As burnt as my brain can be at times, I can't imagine that I could re-read an entire book over again and still not be sure if I read it or not. I'm a huge fan of Texas Holdem so I grew up watching the World Series of Poker on ESPN when it was still at the Horseshoe Casino so I was familiar with some of it and it's also sort of a history on Las Vegas, Texas Holdem and some of the old school, great gamblers. ( ) I'm almost positive that I read this book a couple of years ago but it may have been one very similar to this one. As burnt as my brain can be at times, I can't imagine that I could re-read an entire book over again and still not be sure if I read it or not. I'm a huge fan of Texas Holdem so I grew up watching the World Series of Poker on ESPN when it was still at the Horseshoe Casino so I was familiar with some of it and it's also sort of a history on Las Vegas, Texas Holdem and some of the old school, great gamblers. I'm almost positive that I read this book a couple of years ago but it may have been one very similar to this one. As burnt as my brain can be at times, I can't imagine that I could re-read an entire book over again and still not be sure if I read it or not. I'm a huge fan of Texas Holdem so I grew up watching the World Series of Poker on ESPN when it was still at the Horseshoe Casino so I was familiar with some of it and it's also sort of a history on Las Vegas, Texas Holdem and some of the old school, great gamblers. A pretty good biography of Bennie Binion and his trials and tribulations in the rough and tumble days of the shady side of the origins of gambling from Texas to Las Vegas. Most people have heard of Binion's Horseshoe casino in Glitter Gulch Fremont Street in Vegas. I was not aware of who the man really was and where he came from and got to where is ended up. It is an entertaining story well presented by the author. The feuds and legal wranglings primarily in the Texas lay of the land got a bit sluggish but that was a big and significant part of what Binion went through and how it led to his emergence in the Vegas scene. Through it all we are presented with a simple yet complex fellow who worked it his way and by his laws. Though the real law does manage to step on his toes it plays ultimately to more of a draw, not to be confused with quick draw, but Benny probably would have prevailed in that scenario. Legendary and seemingly beloved he became in that legend by the masses the gravitate to Las Vegas it is doubtful many would have wanted to be on the wrong side of this man in a dim alley after having read this book. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: The astonishing story of Benny Binionâ??a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker. Blood Aces tells the story of Binion's crucial role in shaping modern Las Vegas. From a Texas backwater, Binion rose to prominence on a combination of vision, determination, and brutal expediency. His formula was simple: run a good business, cultivate the big boys, kill your enemies, and own the cops. Through a mix of cold-bloodedness, native intelligence, folksiness, and philanthropy, Binion became one of the most revered figures in the history of gambling, and his showmanship, shrewdness, and violence would come to dominate the Vegas scene. Veteran journalist Doug J. Swanson uses once-secret government documents and dogged reporting to show how Binion destroyed his rivals and outsmarted his adversariesâ??including J. Edgar Hoover. As fast paced as any thriller, Blood Aces tells a story that is unmatched in the annals of American criminal justice, a vital yet untold piece of this country's history Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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