|
Books > Sport & Leisure > Hobbies, quizzes & games > Gambling
This is the story of a man who went from Yorkshire mill worker to
Monte Carlo millionaire. Amongst the men 'who broke the bank at
Monte Carlo', Joseph Hobson Jagger is unique. He is the only one
known to have devised an infallible and completely legal system to
defeat the odds at roulette and win a fortune. But he was not what
might be expected. He wasn't a gentleman or an aristocrat, he
wasn't a professional gambler, he was a Yorkshire textile worker
who had laboured in the Victorian mills of Bradford since
childhood. What led a man like this to travel nearly a thousand
miles to the exclusive world of the Riviera when most people lived
and died within a few miles of where they were born? The trains
that took him there were still new and dangerous, he did not speak
French and had never left the north of England. His motivation was
strong. Joseph, his wife and four children, the youngest of whom
was only two, faced a situation so grave that their only escape
seemed to be his desperate gamble on the roulette tables of Monte
Carlo. Today Jagger's legacy is felt in casinos worldwide and yet
he is virtually unknown. Anne Fletcher is his great-great-great
niece and in this true-life detective story she uncovers how he was
able to win a fortune, what happened to his millions and why Jagger
should now be regarded as the real 'man who broke the bank at Monte
Carlo'.
"A must for anyone who wants to play a game and play it
correctly."
Charles H. Goren
Whether you play card games, dice games, parlor games, word games,
chess, checker, backgammon, or solitaire games, here is a
comprehensive, up-to-date book with the complete rules of your
favorite games of skill and chance. ACCORDING TO HOYLE gives not
only the rules but expert advice on winning, too.
"From the Paperback edition."
The extraordinary life of the best poker player who ever lived When
Stuey 'The Kid' Ungar took his first World Series of Poker title,
one journalist asked him what he would do with the money. His
answer: 'Gamble it'. Stuey grew up among the hoodlums and wiseguys
of New York's Lower East Side. A pint-sized high-school drop out
who never worked a day in his life, never had a bank account or
paid a penny in taxes, he lived to gamble and became the world's
most feared card player. From the multi-million dollar fortune he
won and lost, the addictions that consumed him, and one of the
greatest phoenix-from-the-ashes comebacks of all time, this is the
story of a Las Vegas legend.
|
|