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    crjohnson32
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    Brian Malony: anyone read the book about this gambler?

    Brian Molony was 24 when he placed $5,000 each on 40 college football games of which he lost all his money. He then put $500,000 on the Superbowl and won. But in an incredible betting spree that lasted 18 months he lost $10 million, which was the sum of money he had stolen from the Canadian bank where he worked.

    Brian Molony is a famous former gambler from Toronto. Molony graduated from the University of Western Ontario, and was a rising young assistant manager with his employer, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. However, he abused his position of trust to embezzle more than $10 million from CIBC to feed his gambling habit. As part of the punishment for the main casino that enabled and encouraged his gambling, Caesars Atlantic City was ordered by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to close for a day.[1]
    Gary Stephen Ross's best-selling nonfiction book Stung (ISBN 978-0771075322) chronicles Molony's 18 months of increasingly brazen fraud and out-of-control gambling, mostly at Caesars in Atlantic City. The movie Owning Mahowny was based on Ross's book. Philip Seymour Hoffman played "Dan Mahowny", the character based on Molony

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    why gamble if you have stolen 10 million.

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    he stole the 10 million so he could gamble

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    I'm guessing Owning Mahowny was based on this

    ahhh I should have read the entire post.

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    sounds interesting, gonna check out the book

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    Retard most ppl bet to make money yet he stole it already so why idiot

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    Quote Originally Posted by SBRMAN23 View Post
    Retard most ppl bet to make money yet he stole it already so why idiot
    some of us don't bet for the money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SBRMAN23 View Post
    Retard most ppl bet to make money yet he stole it already so why idiot
    That is absolutely not true........ A severe majority of people are not playing to make money.

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    If I remember correctly didn't he go on a blackjack run where he was up over 10 million and lost it all back and his entire stake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Emily_Haines View Post
    If I remember correctly didn't he go on a blackjack run where he was up over 10 million and lost it all back and his entire stake.


    If I remember right,he won a fortune playing baccarat.

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    A true degen here

    BBQ ribs with no sauce and a coke ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by crjohnson32 View Post
    he stole the 10 million so he could gamble
    actually, he kept stealing the money in hopes of returning everything he had stolen in the first place...and without anyone at the company finding out... he had it all covered, plus millions at one point and fukked it off ... was an ugly cycle once he got started.
    Last edited by raydog; 05-21-12 at 07:31 PM.

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    not a bad movie

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rich Boy View Post
    A true degen here

    BBQ ribs with no sauce and a coke ...
    good one!

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