The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is the colorful story of a spectacular three-year-old female racehorse in the male dominated world of thoroughbred racing. The book is a dramatic narrative of an exciting and frightening time in my life. The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke through the male-dominated world of horseracing, and a trio of gamblers who unknowingly place their longshot bet with members of a suspected drug cartel at a racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico and must figure out how to claim their prize - without getting killed in the process. It’s called “The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told.” The subtitle is “A true tale of three gamblers, the Kentucky Derby, and the Mexican Cartel.” That pretty much covers what the book is about.
The title of Mark Paul’s book The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is hyperbole but Mr. Paul’s book is nonetheless a captivating true narrative of two highly risky gambles. The first gamble was betting in the 1988 Kentucky Derby futures pool that the filly Winning Colors would run in and win the race and the second gamble was that the bet could be collected on even if she did.
In the winter of 1988, D. Wayne Lukas was prepping the massive 3-year-old Winning Colors for the Kentucky Derby or Kentucky Oaks on behalf of her owner Eugene Klein, who also owned the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League. Mark Paul and two acquaintances of his from California are convinced that Winning Colors has a solid chance to win the Derby. They want to bet on her in a futures pool, taking on the risk that Lukas and Klein will opt instead to run her in the Kentucky Oaks for 3-year-old fillies, in which case their futures wagers will be worthless.
Paul and his friends decide to bypass the Las Vegas casino futures pool and instead bet at the allegedly drug-gang-owned Agua Caliente Racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico, where they can get much higher odds. This decision is treacherous because they may not be able to collect if Winning Colors wins the Derby…or if they do collect, they could be robbed and possibly killed in Mexico. Another obstacle is how to get winnings of over $200,000 back into the United States without notice from U. S. border guards.
Mark Paul, a commercial real estate broker nicknamed “Miami,” and his two accomplices are Damon Runyon-like characters, similar to so many racetrackers. Paul has raced motorcycles, sailed a motorcycle through the Panama Canal, and was incarcerated in a Mexican jail for six days at age fifteen. His buddies Dino and a rotund Big Bernie are expert horse-racing handicappers, who spend much of their days-off from work at Santa Anita and other West Coast tracks.
While the vagaries of betting on Winning Colors to win the Kentucky Derby—and collecting at a racetrack run by a suspected drug cartel—is the theme of the book, Paul also delves into the personal lives of himself and Dino and Big Bernie, notably Paul’s sometimes rocky relations with his girlfriend. This provides a human subplot to a story ostensibly about gambling.
The 147 pages of Paul’s paperback fly by if you enjoy tales of risk-taking adventurers and horse racing.
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LOS ANGELES, March 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Therelease of a rollicking, true adventure yarn--The GreatestGambling Story Ever Told—coincides with a new era of sportsbetting that will change the face of gambling forever. Promptedby a May 2018 Supreme Court decisionto overturn the ban on sports betting, 42 states have now embracedlegalizing sports betting.
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Hollywood has been quick tojump on the bandwagon: Five new major motion pictures havebeen released or announced: Dream Horse, featuring Academy Award®nominee Toni Colette and DamianLewis, Uncut Gems, featuring Adam Sandler, Baccarat Queen (from theproducers of Crazy Rich Asians), Dangerous Odds, featuringMargo Robbie, and 7 Days to Vegas.On March 24, 2019, Showtime releasedits new dramatic series Action, which chronicles the SupremeCourt's ruling on professional gamblers, oddsmakers and theeveryday sports bettors.
And now a new book,The Greatest Gambling StoryEver Told arrives with the inspiring story of a femaleracehorse, Winning Colors, who broke through the male-dominatedworld of horse racing to win the Kentucky Derby in 1988. It is alsothe story of three wild-and-crazy gamblers betting to winmillions—unknowingly, with the Mexican Cartel--on Winning Colors'50-to-1 shot to win the Derby, and risked their lives in theprocess.
At least 56 million people in the U.S. play fantasy sportsonline, and more than $150 billion isannually wagered legally in the U.S. 'That number is going toincrease by 500% or more now that sports gambling will be legal inthe majority of states in the next few years' predicts authorMark Paul. 'Millions of people spenda large part of their free time reading and watching sports whilegambling, poker is already huge, and I believe this is a large,budding market for books, audiobooks, and film. Sports betting isgoing to explode thanks to the Supreme Court ruling,' according toPaul.
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