Author: George H. Devol
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1557091102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
George H. Devol was the greatest riverboat gambler in the history of the Mississippi. Born in Ohio in 1829, he ran away from home and worked as a cabin boy at age ten. At fourteen he could stack a deck of cards. Over the years, he bilked soldiers, paymasters, cotton buyers, thieves, and businessmen alike. He fought more fights than anyone, and was never beaten. This is his story. Nobody was ever bored by it.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
Author: George H. Devol
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1557091102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
George H. Devol was the greatest riverboat gambler in the history of the Mississippi. Born in Ohio in 1829, he ran away from home and worked as a cabin boy at age ten. At fourteen he could stack a deck of cards. Over the years, he bilked soldiers, paymasters, cotton buyers, thieves, and businessmen alike. He fought more fights than anyone, and was never beaten. This is his story. Nobody was ever bored by it.
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1557091102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
George H. Devol was the greatest riverboat gambler in the history of the Mississippi. Born in Ohio in 1829, he ran away from home and worked as a cabin boy at age ten. At fourteen he could stack a deck of cards. Over the years, he bilked soldiers, paymasters, cotton buyers, thieves, and businessmen alike. He fought more fights than anyone, and was never beaten. This is his story. Nobody was ever bored by it.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
Author: George H. Devol
Publisher: Johnson Reprint Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A cabin boy in 1839 could steal cards and cheat the boys at eleven stock a deck at fourteen bested soldiers on the Rio Grande during the Mexican war won hundreds of thousands from paymasters, cotton buyers, defaulters and thieves fought more rough and tum
Publisher: Johnson Reprint Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A cabin boy in 1839 could steal cards and cheat the boys at eleven stock a deck at fourteen bested soldiers on the Rio Grande during the Mexican war won hundreds of thousands from paymasters, cotton buyers, defaulters and thieves fought more rough and tum
Forty Years a Gambler
Author: George H. Devol
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334998591
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Excerpt from Forty Years a Gambler: On the Mississippi The author of this book has written the stories as they would recur to his memory, and no effort has been made at classification. They are not fictitious; many of the persons named are now livi
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334998591
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Excerpt from Forty Years a Gambler: On the Mississippi The author of this book has written the stories as they would recur to his memory, and no effort has been made at classification. They are not fictitious; many of the persons named are now livi
Forty Years a Gambler
Author: Devol George H.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243731091
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243731091
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
Author: George Devol
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781541264021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Historical reprint
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781541264021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Historical reprint
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
Author: George H. Devol
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
You Can't Lose Them All
Author: Sal Iacono
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 1538735342
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this informative and entertaining book, learn from Cousin Sal how not to gamble your life away -- along with many other life lessons -- so you don't have to learn the hard way. Over the last forty years, Cousin Sal has made bets with doctors, lawyers, teachers, agents, bookies, writers, comedians, radio DJs, tv producers, baseball players, front office executives, bandleaders, movie stars, publicists, weed lab owners, hedge fund operators, and even professional wrestlers. From his early days growing up in Brooklyn and Long Island flipping baseball cards to now hosting podcasts and TV shows and managing several offshore accounts we don't talk about, Cousin Sal has truly become the average American sports fan's go to source for gambling tips. So here's how not to do it . . . With hilarious tales of love and loss, winning and (a lot) of losing, crazy family and fatherhood, and a life saga that inspired the Phil Collins' song, "Against All Odds," Cousin Sal has now written THE Vegas super-system, MIT-algorithmic, sharp-approved book for how to gamble like a pro -- or at least not how not to go broke and lose your kids to Child Protective Services.
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 1538735342
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this informative and entertaining book, learn from Cousin Sal how not to gamble your life away -- along with many other life lessons -- so you don't have to learn the hard way. Over the last forty years, Cousin Sal has made bets with doctors, lawyers, teachers, agents, bookies, writers, comedians, radio DJs, tv producers, baseball players, front office executives, bandleaders, movie stars, publicists, weed lab owners, hedge fund operators, and even professional wrestlers. From his early days growing up in Brooklyn and Long Island flipping baseball cards to now hosting podcasts and TV shows and managing several offshore accounts we don't talk about, Cousin Sal has truly become the average American sports fan's go to source for gambling tips. So here's how not to do it . . . With hilarious tales of love and loss, winning and (a lot) of losing, crazy family and fatherhood, and a life saga that inspired the Phil Collins' song, "Against All Odds," Cousin Sal has now written THE Vegas super-system, MIT-algorithmic, sharp-approved book for how to gamble like a pro -- or at least not how not to go broke and lose your kids to Child Protective Services.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
Author: George H. Devol
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi, by George H. Devol
All Bets Are Off
Author: Arnie Wexler
Publisher: Central Recovery Press, LLC
ISBN: 1937612759
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Wexler's compulsive gambling spiraled out of control....after forty-plus years in recovery, he's become a nationally known expert on gambling addiction.
Publisher: Central Recovery Press, LLC
ISBN: 1937612759
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Wexler's compulsive gambling spiraled out of control....after forty-plus years in recovery, he's become a nationally known expert on gambling addiction.