"Bookies in Exile"- Interesting Read

tgoodm1 · Aug 17, 2003

Here is a New York Times brief story on the life of an ex-bookie.<A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/magazine/17GAMBLING.html" TARGET=_blank>

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tgoodm1 · Aug 17, 2003

Maybe at this link, you may be able to go right to the story without having to register:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/magazine/17GAMBLING.html?ex=1062145771&ei=1&en=c1e3290697531eec

dimeplayersonly · Aug 17, 2003

very good read.........the ups and downs, stress that bookmakers go through is very accurate...

miaplus3 · Aug 17, 2003

good read, thanks

JoeyC · Aug 17, 2003

Fairly accurate story. Excellent read

JC

illbgamblin · Aug 17, 2003

k.c. is dead right. what a small, pointless, ****ed up existance bookies have.

dimeplayersonly · Aug 17, 2003

lol.........yep.......thing though ask anyone of them and they wouldnt trade it in for anything else.......sick puppies

illbgamblin · Aug 17, 2003

i would but they pay me too much. the money is losing it's allure quickly and i've now realised there's more to it than this.

i used to talk %'s, openers, closers, fake plays, over plays, thought i was leaving all the opposition in a stunned daze. once you reach a certain level it's a bore, hardly a challenge.

also, the ego's, everyone is king.