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David & Goliath, Part I

Risk of Ruin

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Richard Branson's Gambling Wizards

Richard was starting the slow grind up from small stakes when he had a fateful encounter with Alan Woods. Alan stake Richard's team to their first bankroll but later put Richard onto a game in Korea that netted over a million dollars. The 20,000 Alan Woods through on the table would be about 50 or 60,000 today and it's not just value of money that's changed the entire world these guys played in is mostly gone.

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