ギャンブルに人生を賭けた男たち (文春文庫) [文庫]

胸にシリコンを注入し、３８Ｃの胸で一年間をすごし十万ドルを手にした男。ギャンブルに執着する人間の生態に迫るノンフィクション

豊胸手術を受け、C85のおっぱいのまま一年間暮らして10万ドルをせしめた男。ポーカーで400万ドル勝った伝説の勝負師。競馬、ルーレット、カードは勿論、森羅万象をギャンブルの対象にしてしまう奇人、変人、怪人が総登場。おまけにカジノの舞台裏やその客寄せ作戦、イカサマ師の実態などギャンブルの世界をすべて見せます。

A fearless gambler who got breast implants to win a $100,000 bet. A hard-core dice shooter who turned a borrowed stake of $10,000 into $17 million. A marketing genius who developed a "900" line for selecting winners of NFL football games-and had his 4-year-old son make the picks. These are some of the characters that populate Michael Konik's The Man With the $100,000 Breasts and Other Gambling Stories, a collection of the renowned gambling writer's best magazine pieces.

Konik, the long-time gambling columnist for Cigar Aficionado, ushers readers into the arena of risk and reward, introducing them to the subculture of high rollers, hustlers, professional card counters, horse handicappers, and poker champions. These stories take you to the final table of the World Series of Poker where a $1 million prize awaits the winner, to a secret golf course reserved for the biggest gamblers in Las Vegas, and to the inner sanctum of an international bookmaking operation.

Konik profiles America's greatest golf hustler and most accomplished blackjack cheat. He reveals the best and worst games in the casino. And he shares some of his own hilarious attempts at achieving gambling nirvana. Entertaining and stylish, The Man With the $100,000 Breasts and Other Gambling Stories is a literary look inside the world of gambling.

Michael Konik is the gambling columnist for Cigar Aficionado. His work has also appeared in more than 100 magazines and newspapers worldwide, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, GQ, Elle, Travel and Leisure, Forbes FYI, and Men's Journal. He is an editor of Delta Air Lines Sky, where his monthly column, "Tee Time," has been honored by the Golf Writers Association of America. A resident of Los Angeles, Konik is a regular visitor to Las Vegas and has won numerous blackjack and poker tournaments, as well as the occasional sports bet.
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"If we were gambling men, we'd give big odds you'll like this book."
--Maxim

"The people in The Man With the $100,000 Breasts operate in a hairier zone of human behavior, where desire and risk are intertwined and the normal social customs don't apply. Wickedly fascinating."
--Las Vegas Sun

"A fun look at the lengths some people will go to make that easy living . . . Konik has a deft touch with the personality profile."
--Chicago Sun-Times
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コニック,マイケル
ギャンブル専門のコラムニスト。NYタイムズをはじめ、スポーツ・イラストレイテッド、GQなど100以上の紙誌にコラムを寄稿している。自身もブラックジャックやポーカーの大会での常勝者。ロサンゼルス在住

真崎 義博
昭和22(1947)年、東京生れ。明治大学文学部英米文学科卒業(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)