My NFL Picks: Week 7
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Read MoreNothing worked. When I tried to starve myself, I’d start having food fantasies. Most men dream amorous thoughts. I dreamed hot fudge sundaes, bags of potato chips, and half gallons of ice cream.
Read MoreLast night I joined a select group of Las Vegas poker players who were invited to preview a rough cut of the explosive film documentary called Ultimatebeat: Too Much to Lose.
The film gets its title from some wordplay on the Ultimatebet scandal, which rocked the industry at the tail end of the poker boom. According to investigators, the unsuspecting high-stakes poker-playing victims were defrauded out of tens of millions of dollars.
So, where did all that money go and who got away with the crimes?
That’s what Ultimatebeat: Too Much to Lose seeks to answer, in painstaking detail.
Read MoreMEET RACHEL KRANZ
(Update: Kranz passed away in 2018)
Imagine a movie nearly 50 years in the making.
Next, imagine an unscripted story where no one knows what’s going to happen, or what the actors are going to do or say.
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