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Whale Hunt in the Desert

Secrets of a Vegas Superhost

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Whale Hunt in the Desert

By: Deke Castleman
Narrated by: Ed Walters
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Whale Hunt in the Desert divulges the unbridled lengths to which casinos go to bag the world's biggest gamblers - the whales. This definitive exposé reveals the shrouded world of ultra-high rollers and the Faustian pacts they forge with their hosts, the casino representatives whose job it is to part them from their fortunes. Private jets, penthouses, personal chefs, show-up money, rebates on losses, and the most beautiful women on Earth - nothing is too excessive.

This is the only book ever to examine the lifestyles and motivations of this rarest of breeds, as well as the highly guarded inner workings of the most money-oriented culture known to man. This third edition includes a foreword by Anthony Curtis and an extensive update about Las Vegas, the "greening" of gambling, the nightclub and dayclub scenes, the evolving host position, and much more - all in the words of the superhost, Steve Cyr.

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Book was great but the voice over was the worst thing about it by a mile!

Great stories, voice terrible

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whilst I didn't finish this book in it's entirety, I really did learn a lot about what happens in Vegas as well as the crazy lives of gamblers as well as casino Hosts. definitely recommend this as being worth a read

really interesting insight into Vegas

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The story of the rise of the modern casino host is a fun one, tracking as it does the changes in Vegas and the global economy of the last 40 years. There's some attention paid in later chapters to the moral ambiguity of the industry: the gambling addiction corruption and crime it fosters. Mostly though, this is a book for you to kick back with and dream of yourself living the debauched life of excess and luxury that the hosts provide to their whales: that almost none of us will ever be able to afford.

The narrator is fine.

Entertaining enough

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