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by Michael Konik
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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