Gambler's Book Club
Cardoza expanded his reach into the world of gambling in 2010 with the purchase of the Gambler’s Book Club, rescuing a legendary gambling institution with a history dating back to 1964 when founders John and Edna Luckman first opened its doors. Publishers of more than 250 titles — including the first manual on hold'em poker, written by David Sklansky in 1976 — and mentioned in over 1,000 others, GBC is a 3,000-book superstore of gambling books — plus a wide range of biographies, Vegas interest items, Mafia titles, and popular games such as chess, backgammon and sudoku.
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Famous quotes containing the words gambler, book and/or club:
“I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now & then, but every turn of the card & cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive—besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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