Diary Of A Gambler

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“The Gambler” is my latest book, the rags-to-riches tale of Kirk Kerkorian, a poor immigrant’s son who made and lost billions on bold business ventures. I’ve written about other self-made billionaires, but those others were not so heroic.

There was the former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, for example. He looted his billions from his own impoverished country. Then there were the Colombian drug lords, the “gentlemen of Cali.” They ran what was at that time the biggest, richest crime syndicate in the history of crime.

Fascinating story material in every case. But now, with thanks to publisher Harper Collins and its Dey Street division, “The Gambler” has joined the other billionaires on America’s bookshelves.

There was the former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, for example. He looted his billions from his impoverished country. Then, there were the Colombian drug lords, the “gentlemen of Cali.” They ran what was at the time the biggest, richest crime syndicate in the history of crime. Fascinating story material in every case. But now, with thanks to publisher Harper Collins and its Dey Street division, “The Gambler” has joined the other billionaires on America’s bookshelves.

The Gambler

KIRK KERKORIAN combined the daring of a pioneer aviator, the fortitude of a scrappy boxer and the cunning of an inscrutable poker player with a maestro’s sense of timing in the cutthroat world of business wheeling and dealing to become one of the most successful self-made tycoons in American history. Yet, the press-shy billionaire’s inspiring personal story was largely unknown.

His illiterate Armenian immigrant parents arrived in Los Angeles broke and repeatedly struggling to avoid evictions. Kirk quit school in the eighth grade, cleared brush in the Sierra-Nevada mountains, worked as a day laborer at MGM Studios and tried to launch a professional boxing career.

His biography is one of those Only in America tales of an immigrant dreamer.

He ended up owning the film studio where he once worked for a couple of dollars a day. He helped invent the leisure industry and transformed the face of Las Vegas. Three times he built the world’s biggest resort hotel. He became one of the world’s richest men. Yet, he never put his name on any buildings. He rarely granted interviews. And he gave away billions without fanfare to charities and humanitarian causes.

The Gambler

KIRK KERKORIAN combined the daring of a pioneer aviator, the fortitude of a scrappy boxer and the cunning of an inscrutable poker player with a maestro’s sense of timing in the cut-throat world of business wheeling and dealing to become one of the most successful self-made tycoons in American history. Yet, the press-shy billionaire’s inspiring personal story is widely unknown.

From News to Books to Screens

It started as a front page story in the Los Angeles Times about the fall of the Cali drug cartel (2007). It was also the public introduction of Jorge Salcedo, the extraordinary man inside the crime syndicate whose daring and defiance brought it crashing down.

Four years later the story was published by Random House as the book “At the Devil’s Table” (2011). A series of foreign-language versions followed. In Spanish it was “En la Boca del Lobo.” In Portuguese: “A Mesa com O Diabo.” In Dutch: “De Rechterhand van de Duivel.” In Polish: “Uwiklany.” It has since been published in Italian and Serbian versions.

There have been television versions as well. In 2014 Sony-Teleset released its 80-episode Spanish-language telenovela “En la Boca del Lobo” based closely on the book. And in 2017 the popular Netflix series “Narcos” based its Season 3 episodes on the Cali cartel. The author was a story consultant for the series. Additional feature and documentary projects are under consideration.

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PLOT BY PLOT, LIE BY LIE:
From Democrat to Despot

Left behind, along with a legacy of excess and oppression, were more than 2,000 pairs of designer shoes and the ousted dictator’s handwritten diary.

The oddly revealing document is a rare piece of history. In some 3,000 pages it charts the lies, plots and palace intrigues behind a popularly elected leader’s transformation from popularly elected president to ruthless dictator.

Diary of a Dictator – Ferdinand & Imelda: The Last Days of Camelot.

Stories from The Times

“THE MORGUE” IS AN OLD NEWSPAPER TERM that to journalists of a certain age refers to the mildew-scented repository of old stories — the clip files. Today it’s more likely to be called the editorial library. Of course, in the electronic age there’s no place for actual paper clippings. Stories are no longer logged away in those musty drawers and buried from public view. Here’s a digital sampling of timeless stories from the author’s byline collection, retrieved from L.A. Times morgue:

Diary Of A Compulsive Gambler

RACING TO AMERICA— One rust-bucket of an old ship and its passenger manifest filled with “undesirable aliens” defies a stormy Atlantic and swelling anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S. to beat out richer and more acceptable migrants in the great Quota Race of 1923. It’s a time much like today with raging debate against foreigners and with political forces trying to stem their influx. Among those 1920s “undesirables” are displaced Eastern Europeans, Armenians, Greeks, Russians, Jews, pacifist Mennonites…and the author’s family.

IRANIAN SPIES, ASSASSINS — He was Iran’s prime minister when the Islamic revolution forced him from office and into exile in Paris. For the next decade Shapour Bakhtiar uses France as his sanctuary and platform from which to wage a public relations war against religious hardliners. His brutal murder by Iranian government assassins exposes a network of spies and assassins deployed against Tehran’s critics around the world. A story based on rare access to French investigative reports may also help explain some of the West’s continuing distrust of Tehran’s regime.

TERROR IN NEW YORK CITY— After a devastating terrorist blast, how do federal bomb investigators piece together bits and fragments of seemingly worthless rubble to find markers that identify who did it? The author gains special access to the crack ATF forensics team that had swiftly unraveled just such a mystery — the deadly World Trade Center bombing of 1993.

ARIZONA PRISON BREAK — Three kids break their father out of the state penitentiary in hopes of staging a family reunion across the border in Mexico. Their audacious plot is carried out in broad daylight without firing a shot and no one gets hurt. Not at first. Could this true crime story be the stuff of legends? The author explores the dark side of family love and loyalty in exclusive interviews with the boys’ mother.

Stories from The Times

TERROR IN NEW YORK CITY — After a devastating terrorist blast, how do federal bomb investigators piece together bits and fragments of seemingly worthless rubble to find markers that identify who did it? The author gains special access to the crack ATF forensics team that had swiftly unraveled just such a mystery — the deadly World Trade Center bombing of 1993.

ARIZONA PRISON BREAK — Three kids break their father out of the state penitentiary in hopes of staging a family reunion across the border in Mexico. Their audacious plot is carried out in broad daylight without firing a shot and no one gets hurt. Not at first. Could this true crime story be the stuff of legends? The author explores the dark side of family love and loyalty in exclusive interviews with the boys’ mother.

Professional Punter Insights

Those readers of a certain age (in the UK) will remember the wonderful book by Sue Townsend –The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ . The book follows the travails of teenager Adrian as he navigates typical problems such as acne, girls and his neighbour seducing his mother.

Here at the Smart Betting Club we have our very secret diary, but in this case focusing on the ups and downs of professional gambling. Our Mole in this case is Rowan Day, a pro punter who is well past his teenage years, but still has to contend with issues such as cricket matches interfering with bet placement.

Rowan writes his column exclusively for Smart Betting Club members and not only is it a good read, it also provides a useful insight into the life of a pro punter (and SBC member). With April now behind us, here are some excerpts from Rowan’s latest missive…

The names of tipsters that Rowan uses have been removed for the benefit of paying Smart Betting Club members. To find out more about an SBC membership click here.

April Update: I Loved That Hamster…

Nine winners from nine on Saturday, and Justin Rose winning on the PGA Tour yesterday meant that for a second weekend in the month, [TipsterH] had a stormer. Shame I missed out on the first weekend, eh?

This will have been a bumper month for [TipsterH] followers. That it is not as big a month for me as it will have been for others is, as you can tell, really winding me up. I need to let it go and move on. Honestly, I’ve not grieved so much since family pet ‘Hammy’ the hamster died back in ’79.

I loved that hamster.

*cough*

Still a good month…

Still, even without this boost [TipsterH] has had a month to savour and was by far my best performing service for April. Although the figures don’t go into last month’s totals, it was great to see a long term bet on Brentford landed on Saturday, one of the few antepost bets I was able to place at fairly decent odds at the beginning of the footie season. I’ve had a couple of antepost losers too, but I’ve been fortunate in that the long term bets I have been able to place have come in, and some of those I wasn’t able to have gone on to be losers. Swings and roundabouts I guess; the betting equivalent to that well worn football mantra of luck evening itself out over the course of a season.

[TipsterH] April: Staked 102.5pts, +24.172pts

A Gut Feeling on [TipsterJ]

At the risk of tempting fate, and touching wood whilst offering a silent prayer, it is to be noted that there have been one or two signs of life for [TipsterJ], a service that has lain dormant for some time. I’ve made a lot of money from this service in the past, and although my faith hadn’t completely dwindled, I couldn’t help but wonder if perhaps it had seen it’s best days. Although not a huge profit in the month gone, I did get the feeling that there was more consistency in their approach and it “felt” more like the service of old.

[TipsterJ] April: Staked 27pts, +2.816pts

Mr Consistent: [TipsterT]

My most consistent service by far is [TipsterT], and April was another solid month for the South American expert. It’s not the simplest service to follow – far from it in fact, with odds crashing fast – but happily for 80% of the bets that come through, I tend to be at the laptop at the time of release and so generally speaking, I’m ok.

[TipsterT] April: Staked 169pts, +11.536pts.

Dodging Bullets

One of the more inspired decisions I’ve made about my betting recently was to drop the football Combo bets this month. I made this decision not because I felt the system has no merit (indeed, on the contrary), but because I hadn’t fully settled on my own Combo strategy. Experience has taught me that if there is any lack of certainty in my method of following a service or tipster, or in this case a combination of tipsters, then it is better to stop putting the money down and wait until there is 100% clarity in terms of the way forward.

What I can’t claim is some great foresight that told me that [Tipsters X & Y], two huge contributors to the Combo method, would each suffer a torrid April. I can’t imagine they would be great results and I feel I’ve dodged a bullet here.

Feeding the Fink Tank

Rounding up the summary of football services, and we come to the seemingly ever-reliable The Fink Tank. I know that, like any service/system, it has bad spells (seemingly the 2013/14 season was one of them), but this season it has been great.

[Fink Tank] April: Staked 59pts, +3.945pts

Basketball Foul Times

It hasn’t been such a happy time for [Tipster B], but previous heroics prevent there being too many feelings of reproach for the NBA specialist. There’s not too much to say, other than it would be nice for what has overall been a highly successful season if it were to finish strongly through May. Here’s hoping. (Staked 148pts, -17.242pts).

[Tipster B] April: Staked 148pts, -17.242pts

Big Ups & Downs With This Tipster:

There’s no escaping the fact that [TipsterTT] had a shocker of an April. Looking at previous months’ results, it was due one, and something I have learnt already from following this service is that losses can, and have been previously, recouped at a rate of knots. In simple, black and white terms, this service has dragged my overall monthly profit right down, but therein lies the problem of splitting overall performance into monthly chunks. 30-31 days really is no sort of time period to evaluate performance.

[TipsterTT] April: 301.8pts, -92.916pts

Horse Racing Profits:

It was good to see [Tipster O] embark successfully upon the beginnings of a recovery mission to regain points lost through the early part of the year.

[Tipster O]: Staked 40.15pts, +9.199pts

Staking Management & Much More

As a Smart Betting Club member Rowan has benefited not only from our in-depth reviews of profitable tipster, we also supply dozens of articles on professional betting topics such as bankroll management and betting psychology.This means that Rowan is able to manage his portfolio of tipsters effectively so that no tipster dominates his profit and loss. His final tally for April shows an ROI of 1.34% and a Return On Capital of 1.13%. As Rowan says – Not the best month in the world, but not the worst either.Some tipsters stake more than others and some may take on higher odds selections which means if you had £1,000 invested with each tipster you would stake dramatically different amounts per bet / per point.

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