Gambling Memoir

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    • The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son
    • By: Lionel Barber
    • Narrated by: Lionel Barber
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Japan’s Masayoshi Son has made and lost several fortunes, investing or controlling assets worth $1trn in the past two decades through his media-tech giant, SoftBank.

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    • A True Tale of Three Gamblers, the Kentucky Derby, and the Mexican Cartel
    • By: Mark Paul
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • In the late 1980s, a spectacular three-year-old female racehorse named Winning Colors was being groomed for success under her famous Hollywood trainer D. Wayne Lukas and the billionaire owner of the San Diego Chargers pro-football team Eugene Klein....

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    • A Memoir of Gambling
    • By: Beth Raymer
    • Narrated by: Phoebe Zimmermann
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Beth Raymer arrived in Las Vegas in 2001, hoping to land a job as a cocktail waitress at one of the big casinos. In the meantime, she lived in a $17-a-night motel with her dog, Otis, and waited tables at a low-rent Thai restaurant....

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion....

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    • By: Jack Newton
    • Narrated by: Daniel Negreanu
    • Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 17-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Gentleman Jack Newton: Confessions of a Crossroad Gambler" is an autobiography by Jack Newton, a legendary high-stakes gambler, narrated by 7-time WSOP bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu.

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    • A Young Woman's Story of Her Escape from Gambling Addiction
    • By: Stacey Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Deborah Balm
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 15-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The story of a young girl's entrapment in gambling addiction. The true advert for problem gambling and how it controlled her every movement, her every thought and almost took her life....

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    • How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever
    • By: Aaron Rogan
    • Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 14-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • Flutter Entertainment, the parent company of Paddy Power, is the largest gambling business in the world. The evidence of that success is visible everywhere, from shop fronts and bus shelters to sporting arenas and smartphone screens....

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    • By: John Pearson
    • Narrated by: Christopher Oxford
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • This is the inside story of the infamous Clermont Set: five friends who became the most stylish and exclusive gamblers in 1960s London....

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    • How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
    • By: Scott Patterson
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In March 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with ­million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT....

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    • A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Not Necessarily in That Order)
    • By: Joe Peta
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • An ex-Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games - with a 41 percent return in his first year....

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    • The Story Behind the NBA Betting Scandal and the Gambler Who Made It Happen
    • By: Sean Patrick Griffin
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In June 2007, the FBI informed the NBA that one of its referees, Tim Donaghy, was the subject of a probe into illegal gambling. Within months, the public knew the broad outlines of a scheme involving Donaghy betting on games he officiated with a coconspirator....

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    • Secrets of a Vegas Superhost
    • By: Deke Castleman
    • Narrated by: Ed Walters
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Whale Hunt in the Desert divulges the unbridled lengths to which casinos go to bag the world's biggest gamblers - the whales. This definitive exposé reveals the shrouded world of ultra-high rollers....

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    • A Story About Faith, Family, and Living with and Surviving Tough Addictions
    • By: Susan Moeller, Richard Moeller
    • Narrated by: Susan M. Moeller
    • Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-23
    • Language: English
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    • Rich's life is spiraling out of control. Consumed by addiction to alcohol, opioid prescription drugs, and gambling, his attempts to drown out the darkness and reality of a troubled childhood will lead to unimaginable trials for his family....

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    • By: Lance Libel
    • Narrated by: Richard Lam
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-19
    • Language: English
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    • Gambling, Gambling, Gone is a young problem gambler's true story of denial, acceptance, and a lifelong trial to quit gambling for good. An eye opening novel focused around the hidden dangers of gambling....

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    • Horse Racing Politics and Organized Crime in New York 1865­-1913
    • By: Steven Riess
    • Narrated by: Emil N Gallina
    • Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime, author Steven Riess fills a long-neglected gap in sports history, offering a richly detailed and fascinating chronicle of thoroughbred racing's heyday....

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    • My Life in Gambling and Politics
    • By: Stuart Wheeler
    • Narrated by: Richard Paul Thomas
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Stuart Wheeler went to Eton and Oxford. He was an officer in the Welsh Guards, a barrister, an investment banker, and a major donor to the Conservative Party. You might think that he has led a life of impeccably conformist upper-class respectability. You’d be wrong....

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    • Overcoming a 45-Year Gambling Addiction
    • By: Peter Shilton, Steph Shilton, Gary Lineker - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe, Julie Maisey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 16-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • After a trophy-laden and record-setting club and international career, England’s greatest ever goalkeeper, Peter Shilton, could rightly look forward to an equally successful post-playing career. But a gambling habit forged in his playing days soon spiralled into a gambling addiction....

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    • The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief
    • By: Rena Pederson
    • Narrated by: Erin Dion
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • As a string of high-profile jewel thefts went unsolved during the Swinging Sixties, the press dubbed the elusive thief the King of Diamonds. Like Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, the King was so bold that he tip-toed into the homes of millionaires while they were home....

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    • A Family Man Takes On the Poker Pros
    • By: Johnny Kampis
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • Can a former semi-pro win against the best poker players in the world?

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    • Memoir of a Gambling Man
    • By: Ronald Probstein
    • Narrated by: Dave Margalotti
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-15
    • Language: English
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    • Honest Sid is the story of an American archetype as seen through the eyes of his son, Ronald, who loved him and who almost lost him....

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