The Handicapper: A Novel about Love, Ambition, and the World of Professional Sports Gambling Kalich Robert
The Handicapper: A Novel about Love, Ambition, and the World of Professional Sports Gambling Kalich Robert David Lazar, passionate, excessive, riddled with contradictions and soaring ambitions, is a…
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The Handicapper: A Novel about Love, Ambition, and the World of Professional Sports Gambling Kalich Robert
David Lazar, passionate, excessive, riddled with contradictions and soaring ambitions, is a compulsive gambler. He is fighting to keep the wife he idolizes who cannot live with his gambling loses. He is hopelessly in debt and stuck in a humdrum job that can't support his addiction.
He calls upon the expertise of his all-powerful friends--Nathan Rubin, the money obsessed CEO, and Solomon Lepidus, the man who can afford to gamble for fun. Lazar is left with no other options but to fight back and find a way to succeed.Lazar takes control of life. Basketball is Lazar's game, and he studies the teams, the plays and the betting.
He uses the energy of his obsession to beat that very obsession, to become the most knowledgeable man in the country about college basketball. He builds a network of tipsters, produces a more accurate 'line' of point spreads than the Vegas experts, wagers--and
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