Double or Nothing: How Two Friends Risked It All to Buy One of Las Vegas' Legendary Casinos
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (622 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060835834 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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But Tim refuses to back off on the odds or the high limits, telling his partner, "It's a ballsy proposition here. It's just you and me."When Mr. He was whistling Sinatra and booking games at his Las Vegas high school.Their unlikely friendship began in college over an $8 veal parmigiana sandwich that led to a partnership in a hotel reservation business. When he begins to take Tom and Tim for millions, the partnership is put to the test. But we don't have a public company to answer to. Starting with a desk, a chair, a pillow, and a telephone, Tim and Tom grew a company that they sold during the dot boom for $105 million. Royalty rolls twenty-two consecutive passes and rakes in a mountain of chips, he takes Tim and Tom to the brink. If Tom Sawyer and Hu
It's astounding, with such volatile circumstances and a Vegas backdrop, that Breitling's book is so bland. What should be a story of two young guys trying to steer a risky business in America's playground reads too often like a business seminar transcript with hint of a scandal. (Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . Royalty; and appearances by the likes of Steve Wynn and Andre Agassi. All rights reserved. Then in 2003, the pair bought the legendary and past-its-prime Golden Nugget casino for $215 million.
The author of After Jackie: Pride, Prejudice, and Baseball's Forgotten Heroes, he lives with his family in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Tom Breitling is the president of Breitling Ventures, a private investment company. A graduate of the University of San Diego and a mentor at the Andre Agassi Preparatory Academy, he lives with his wife in Las Vegas.Cal Fussman is a writer at large for Esquire.
Changed my perception Tim and Tom are best friends who first take a piece of the internet bubble and then a piece of Las Vegas.I was very skeptical when I picked up this book. My assumption was that is was going to be a feel good story about how two guys conquered the world. I had watched their "reality" television show and assumed the book would be the same canned prefabricated dribble. Instead, I was rather surprised by a decent story with. "Really interesting - awesome story about entrepreneurship and taking risks" according to Amazon Customer. Really interesting - awesome story about entrepreneurship and taking risks. Cool to hear more about the inner-workings of a Las Vegas casino. An Interesting Story but an Incredibly Disappointing "Memoir" This book had the potential to be very good - the story was interesting, the backdrop was the Internet Boom and Vegas, and the main characters were fairly original. However, as a result of the puff piece writing, this turned out to be one of the worst "memoirs" (if you can even call it that) I have ever read.The major problem with this book is that it just skims over the real interesting parts of the story. For example,