The House Rules: A Self-Help Guide to Gambling and Recovery

The House Rules is the book Antonio Walthour wrote for the man sitting in the bathroom at 2 a.m. with the parlay screen open and the bills due Friday. It is the book for the woman hiding the receipts from her own mirror, the father who hasn't slept in three days because the rent check hit but the rent didn't, the kid who put his first twenty on a teaser and felt his stomach jump and didn't know it was a hook.Part memoir, part field manual, part sermon. Walthour writes from inside the addiction, not from above it. He lost too many Sundays to a phone and a few Mondays to the Tuesday he owed somebody. He has been the man refreshing the score with two parlays running while his kids ate cereal in the next room. He has been the man who told himself the next bet was the one that fixes it. And then he became the man who walked off the board.

Pagina's: 219, Paperback, Independently published