High Stakes: Bet Your Life on Vegas
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Philip Day
Bubba Youngblood
Teresa Zellhoefer
Becky Behen
Frank A Luizzo
Sal Piacente
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Documentary about Las Vegas, the world's undisputed gambling capital and the last American boomtown. The program reveals how each casino is actually a money-making machine that leaves nothing to chance as it churns out $20 million a day. It offers perspectives of celebrity high rollers and multi-million-dollar jackpot winners, contrasted with the testimony of a recovering compulsive gambler and the frank confessions of a convicted cheat. Viewers go undercover with the agents of the Nevada Gaming Control Board as they fight to keep the industry clean. Other characters include the only female casino owner, a Brooklyn card shark who thinks he can beat the system, and the Harvard rocket scientist who left his lab to stake everything on a new career in slot-machine design.
Director
Philip Day
Cast
Bubba Youngblood
Teresa Zellhoefer
Becky Behen
Frank A Luizzo
Sal Piacente
Puggy Pearson
Peter Ruchman
Lee Cag;ey
