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...little more than two decades now, the sports books, as they are called in Nevada, have been an integral part of casinos large and small. Walk into any casino and you will see an area carved out for sports gamblers. There the legal gambler may spread his sports pages and tip sheets across one of the rows of desks usually found in college libraries, each individually lighted, or sit back in one of the dozens of plush chairs and, while being served drinks by a cocktail waitress, study the giant electronic board that covers the wall in front, offering information...
Therein lies the sinister beauty of rigging a game by shaving points: It's nearly impossible to detect, as long as the players do some serious acting. In one fixed game, the gambler who engineered the point shaving complimented the players involved saying he "liked the way [they] made it appear that they were playing hard...
DIED. JOHN ASPINALL, 74, British gambler and gadfly who siphoned the profits from his gaming tables to create two wildlife parks in Kent dedicated to the conservation and breeding of tigers, elephants, gorillas and other endangered species; of cancer; in London. He believed in personally interacting with the animals, a policy that resulted in the deaths of five zookeepers over the past 20 years...
...Charade) until Wilder and Simon put him above the title. Then he suavely juggled two genres: romantic comedy (A New Leaf, House Calls) and 32 years of grumpy-buddy movies with Jack Lemmon. He had a few weaknesses, but optimism wasn't one of them. "I'm a degenerate gambler," he said in 1994. "If I get lucky, I'll die before I go broke." He went out (as a dying meanie in Hanging Up) the way he came in: like the sour sage who believes nothing he hears--or says. If Walter Matthau were to be told that Walter...
...call option for about $600 that gives you the right to buy 100 shares of Oracle in mid-July at $85 a share. Oracle is now trading at about $81. Say the stock soars to $91, a full 6 points above the strike price. The gambler's profit is $600, or double his investment. Had he bought the stock instead of the option, his $600 would have fetched only seven shares, and the rise to $91 would have netted just...