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When journalist Michael Konik landed an interview with Rick "Big Daddy" Matthews, the largest bet he'd placed on a sporting event was $200. Konik, an expert blackjack and poker player, was no stranger to Vegas. But Matthews was in a different league: the man was rumoured to be the world's smartest sports bettor, the mastermind behind "the Brain Trust," a shadowy group of gamblers known for their expertise in beating the odds set by the big Vegas casinos. Konik had heard the word on the street - that Matthews was a snake, a conniver who would do anything to gain an edge. But he was also brilliant, cunning, and charming. And when he asked Konik if he'd like to "make a little money" during the football season, the writer found himself seduced...Konik takes readers behind the most successful sports betting operation in America, bypassing the myths and the rumours to reveal how they got rich by beating the Vegas odds and, ultimately, the multimillion-dollar offshore betting circuit. He details the excesses and the betrayals, the horse-trading and the paranoia, that are the perks and perils of a lifestyle in which staking inordinate sums of money on the outcome of a single event - sometimes as much as $1 million on a football game - is a normal part of doing business.
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Michael Konik is an author, television personality, jazz singer, improvisational comedian, blackjack and poker player. He is the author of several books including Telling Lies and Getting Paid and has played in the World Series of Poker and the World Series of Blackjack.
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Anyone who has even the slightest passing interest in gambling should read this book. Michael Konik had the lifestyle most of us would give our right arm for, he was put up in the top Vegas hotels and everything was 'comped'.
His 'work' was to get the bets on at the various bookmakers, he worked for an organisation known as The Brain Trust, they knew how to beat the bookies, therefore the problem for them was not what to bet on but how to get the money on ($25k,$35k,45k...etc). This is where they employed people like Michael, he had to try and pass as a highrolling 'mug punter'. Easily the best gambling book I've read by far.
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