How a small-time Vancouver bookie helped turn sports betting into a multibillion-dollar industry - CBC.ca

Michael "Roxy" Roxborough worked as a small-time bookie hanging out in Vancouver pool halls before becoming the top oddsmaker in Vegas.

As a young man in Vancouver in the early '70s, Michael Roxborough was drawn to the world of gamblers. That led him to hanging out at the race track, pool halls, and the Vancouver Stock Exchange.  Ro… [+5757 chars]

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