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1) Void moon
Author
Language
English
Description
Cassie Black is lured back to robbing casino gamblers by a set up that looks to good to be true.
2) Maverick
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
A poker tournament attracts gamblers of all kinds, including the legendary Maverick, that is if he can avoid the noose, outlaws, snakes & a runaway stage to get there.
5) Croupier
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
London's gambling world is the setting where aspiring writer Jack Manfred, suffering from writer's block, takes a job as a croupier to support his art. Knowing the dangers of the cards, Jack is adamant about remaining a professional outsider, but the temptations of the game inevitably swallow him deeper than he could have ever anticipated.
Author
Language
English
Description
An international backgammon hustler, who has amassed a fortune through psychic tomfoolery, develops a large tumor on his face that compromises his vision and eventually threatens his life, forcing him to pursue an experimental surgery and contemplate existential questions.
Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur "whales" who think they can challenge his peerless acumen at backgammon....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
In The third man, Rollo Martins is in corrupt postwar Vienna, seeking "to discover the almost unbearable truth about his old friend Harry Lime." In Loser takes all, "Its narrator, Bertram is a quiet assistant accountant about to be married for the second time, but when a director of his firm whimsically offers both wedding and honeymoon in Monte Carlo, and Bertram (always good with numbers) goes to the casino with a system that really works, he suddenly...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
The Carletons make a living as card sharps and finding new suckers to mooch off of. When their latest scam backfires, they are asked to leave Monte Carlo. At the train station, they meet a kind old woman named Miss Fortune. The elderly lady is very wealthy and very lonely. As a reward for saving her life after the train derails, Miss Fortune invites the Carletons to come live with her. The family hopes that by winning her affection, they can eventually...
Publisher
Connell Creations
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Follows the rise of arguably the largest and most well-funded blackjack team in America made up entirely of churchgoing Christians. While they succeed in taking millions from casinos, how will they manage to find a place for faith and God in the arena of high stakes gambling?
12) Let it ride
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a man with a hot tip on a horse everybody else says is ready for the glue factory.
13) A wedding wager
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An eccentric uncle promises three noble brothers a lavish inheritance, but only if each marries-- thus redeeming-- a fallen woman. Fortune's whim placed Lady Serena Grantley in the control of her gamester stepfather, who uses her to lure men to his gambling tables. Serena dismissed her first love, the Honorable Sebastian Sullivan, at her stepfather's command. But when he attempts to force her into a liaison with a dissolute earl, it is to Sebastian...
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to The freshman, Harold Diddlebock, former football star, slaves for twenty years in the bookkeeping department of an advertising agency and is fired. After recklessly placing a large bet and winning at the race track, he buys a circus and embarks on a series of adventures with his new pet, Jackie the lion.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Niles and Carol Nelson are married doctors who save one of ganglord Gurney's men. Gurney exploits them, then kills Niles leaving Carol to take the fall. He next kidnaps writer Bill Forrest to write his biography. Knowing Bill will be killed when the biography is finished, Carol takes matters into her own hands.
17) Hard eight
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Sydney, a poker-faced professional gambler plays guardian angel to unlucky John and his girlfriend. When John's and his bride's honeymoon night leads to a disastrous hostage situation, the gambler takes care of it as usual. But when a slick casino pro threatens to reveal a secret from Sydney's past, Sydney decides to hedge his bets and not leave anything to chance.
19) 13 Tzameti
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
An impoverished young immigrant semi-advertently enters into a shadowy criminal underworld, from which he may not emerge alive.
20) Last shot
Author
Series
Sports beat volume 1
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
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Description
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
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