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Gambler's Book Shop / GBC Press

Among other notable works published: the first book on the now popular poker variant Texas hold'em, Hold'em Poker by David Sklansky.


Barbara Stuart

In 1960, Stuart appeared as the legendary gambler Poker Alice in three episodes of the CBS-Desilu western series The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun.

Calvert v William Hill

Graham Calvert was a successful greyhound trainer and pathological gambler who in 2006 placed the largest golf bet in history: £347,000 on America to win the Ryder Cup.

Charles Jeremiah Wells

Their son Charles Deville Wells, after his father's death, achieved a notoriety which was unpoetical, although recorded in popular song, for he was the once-famous "man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo."

Fred Bertelmann

His most popular song was the 1957 published Der lachende Vagabund, a cover version of Jim Lowes song Gambler’s Guitar.

Frederick Hughes

Fred G. Hughes (1837–1911), American miner, gambler, and politician

Further Down the Old Plank Road

# Moonshiner/I'm a Gambler I'm a Rambler - The Chieftains, Joe Ely

Gage Clarke

Clarke, a slightly overweight actor with a double chin, specialized in playing avuncular, rather timid characters, with one of his largest parts being frightened gambler "Foursquare Farley" in the Maverick episode "Greenbacks, Unlimited" opposite James Garner and John Dehner.

Gambler's Lament

Moriz Winternitz considered the poem to be "most beautiful among the non–religious poems of the Rig Veda".

Gambling Lady

She resists marrying him, fearing the reaction of his high society father, but is pleased to learn that she already knows and likes Peter Madison (C. Aubrey Smith), a fellow gambler.

Georgetown, Colorado

The frontier gambler, Poker Alice, lived for a time in Georgetown and in several other Colorado communities where she was considered an expert player and dealer.

Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox

The series chronicle the adventures of Paul Cox, a professional gambler (antique dealer in the TV series) in London, with a tendency to get involved in intricate murder mysteries, where he often ends up as the main suspect and has to evade police and solve the crime to clear his name.

Gloria Manon

She has appeared in such television series as Daniel Boone, Burke's Law, The Name of the Game, The Six Million Dollar Man and the frontier gambler Poker Alice, the latter of which was her last screen role before a 17-year break.

Glyn Maxwell

His radio adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Gambler was on BBC Radio 3 in June 2009, and repeated on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010, starring Patricia Routledge, Sam Crane, Siobhan Hewlett and Nicholas Le Prevost, and directed by Guy Retallack.

Henry Constantine Jennings

Henry Constantine Jennings (August 1731 – 17 February 1819) was an antiquarian, collector and gambler, best known for the Roman sculpture - known as The Jennings Dog - which he acquired and which is now in the British Museum.

Honeymoon in Vegas

He arranges a crooked poker game (with Jerry Tarkanian as one of the other players) where Jack borrows $65,000 after being dealt a straight flush (7-8-9-10-Jack of clubs), only to lose to the gambler's higher straight flush (8-9-10-Jack-Queen of hearts); Tommy, however, promises to erase the debt - if he can spend the weekend with Singer's fiancée.

James Earp

Wyatt Earp and James' youngest brother, Warren—with gambler Doc Holliday and gunmen Sherman McMasters, "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson, and Texas Jack Vermillion—then hunted down those they held responsible for the attacks during the Earp Vendetta Ride.

John Shanssey

John Shanssey (March 23, 1848 - 1919?) was an American boxer, gambler, saloon owner, and Mayor of Yuma, Arizona, most known for introducing legendary lawman Wyatt Earp to gambler and gunman Doc Holliday.

Johnny Tatum

He also performed as a stuntman and acted in several movies and TV shows including "The Gambler 2" starring Kenny Rogers, Silverado and others.

Leap of faith

Living withdrawn as he does now, possibly saved, he one day sees the body of a man drawn out on the Seine: a suicide, and this was a gambler just as he himself had been, and he knew that this gambler had struggled, had fought a desperate battle to resist his craving.

Leo Katcher

Katcher's books included, The Big Bankroll: The Life and Times of Arnold Rothstein, about the mobster/gambler, which was adapted into a movie, King of the Roaring Twenties (1961).

Martin Goldstein

Both Goldstein and Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss were convicted of the murder of Irving "Puggy" Feinstein, a small time gambler whose death had been ordered by Albert Anastasia as a favor to the boss of the crime family Anastasia belonged to, Vincent Mangano.

Now I'll Tell

The picture's plot involves a gambler who gets in trouble with the mob by fixing fights and loses his fortune.

Pat Conway

Among the episodes are "Gunslinger from Galeville" (the series premiere), "A Bullet for an Editor", "Guns of Silver", "Postmarked for Death", "The Epitaph", "Geronimo", "The Outcasts" (about a religious sect), "The Lady Gambler", "The Black Marshal from Deadwood", and "Doc Holliday in Durango".

Pauline Markham

The following year Markham’s company toured the West in H. M. S. Pinafore with a cast that included a young actress named Josephine Earp who later became the common-law wife of gambler and lawman Wyatt Earp.

Peter Temple

His Jack Irish novels (Bad Debts, Black Tide, Dead Point, and White Dog) are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist.

Rose of Washington Square

Although the names of the principal characters were changed, the plot was obviously inspired by vaudeville entertainer Fanny Brice's career and marriage to gambler Nicky Arnstein (both the film's title tune and "My Man" were closely associated with Brice), and Brice sued 20th Century Fox for $750,000.

Ruler on Ice

He also sired the Grade I winner Toga Toga Toga and Saratoga Gambler before dying in a 2006 barn fire at the JEH Stallion Station in Hondo, New Mexico, that also claimed the life of 1997 Horse of the Year Favorite Trick.

Saint John of Las Vegas

The film, directed and written for the screen by Hue Rhodes (based on a story by Dante Alighieri) and produced by Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, and Spike Lee, follows an ex-gambler as he takes a road trip with his new partner, an auto insurance fraud debunker, to investigate a fraud, while meeting a series of offbeat characters, including a carnival's human torch, a paraplegic stripper, and a nude militant, along the way.

Sam Conn

Conn became well known for his horsemanship and his horses appeared in several motion pictures including "Silverado", Gambler 3, the television series "The Lazarus Man" on TNT (Turner Network Television), and the film "Friday Night Lights".

Sid Wyman

Wyman was a gambler and co-owner of several Las Vegas casinos including the Sands, Riviera, Royal Nevada and The Dunes.

Take a Hard Ride

Pike teams up with dishonest gambler Tyree (Fred Williamson) and are forced to trust each other while being pursued by various outlaws and gunmen trying to possess the money, including the ruthless bounty hunter Kiefer (Lee Van Cleef) and corrupt sheriff Kane (Barry Sullivan).

Terror Twilight

The style of the recordings was similar to those found on the compilation At Home With The Groovebox ("Robyn Turns 26" and "Watch Out!"), the B-sides of the Spit on a Stranger single ("Rooftop Gambler" and "The Porpoise And The Hand Grenade"), and the demo version of "Major Leagues" found on the Major Leagues EP.

The Angel and the Gambler

"The Angel and the Gambler" is a single from the Iron Maiden album Virtual XI, released in 1998.

The Gambler, the Girl and the Gunslinger

The Gambler, the Girl and the Gunslinger is a 2009 Drama directed by Anne Wheeler, starring Dean Cain, James Tupper and Allison Hossack.

The Shooting of Dan McGoo

Droopy is Dangerous Dan McGoo, a lone gambler, whose only love is the girl they call "Lou", played by Red (from Red Hot Riding Hood).

The Young Punx

Some of their most well known mixes include "Hideaway" by De'lacy, "Stoned in Love" by Chicane and Tom Jones, "Come on get it on" by Studio B, "I like girls" by Hound Dogs and "Rocket (a natural gambler)" by Braund Reynolds along with tracks by the Scissor Sisters, Don Diablo, Ike & Tina Turner, The Similou, Krafty Kuts, Space Cowboy and Norman Cook's "Mighty Dub Katz".

Tiger Fafara

In the story line, young Fafara plays Benny Burkett, a boy who contracts consumption, a disease which also wracks the man that Benny idolizes, the gambler and gunfightrer, Doc Holliday, played by Douglas Fowley.

Tom Queally

Queally had ridden a winner for trainer David Elsworth when in England for a few weeks in January 2003 and his return to the UK (after a stint as a work rider both in the USA and New Zealand) was an instant success as, attached to the yard of legendary gambler and trainer Barney Curley, he took the apprentice title in his first full season in the UK in 2004 with 59 winners (66 in the calendar year).

Tropical Park Race Track

A major gambler from Cleveland, Ohio, Silberman was a former majority shareholder of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League who had also owned Randall Park Race Track in North Randall, Ohio and the Painesville Raceway in Northfield, Ohio.

Walter Colton

He served with wisdom and sound judgment in dealing with lawbreakers, built Colton Hall, and fined every gambler $20 to help cover the costs of building California’s first schoolhouse.

Weaverville, California

The Mary McCaslin song The Ballad of Weaverville gives a fictional account of the town's name as being that of a gambler, Jim Weaver, who had the town named after him as his final bet, after winning all of the town's gold.

William J. Bulow

As governor, he pardoned the famous frontier gambler Poker Alice after her conviction of bootlegging and other charges related to running a house of prostitution.

Ylon Schwartz

An inveterate gambler, Schwartz made $340 from passersby on wagers that he would be able to throw a lemon across a street onto the top of a Burger King restaurant on the other side.


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