Houston Curtis has lived a successful double life as both a
producer and card mechanic for nearly thirty years. His credits
include executive producing gambling related shows such as The
Ultimate Blackjack Tour on CBS and pioneering the poker
instructional DVD genre with titles featuring poker champs Phil
Hellmuth and Annie Duke. Barred from Las Vegas Golden Nugget for
"excessive winning" at Blackjack, Houston is one of the world's
most successful card mechanics and sleight-of-hand artists of the
modern era. Curtis won the 2004 Legends of Poker championship
before co-founding the elite Hollywood poker ring that inspired
Aaron Sorkin's Academy Award-nominated film Molly's
Game.
As a man with unprecedented access to the facts and a reporter who
is one of the most feared journalists in Hollywood, investigative
reporter Dylan Howard has cracked open scandals that have
brought down the careers of Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen, Hulk Hogan,
and Paula Dean and others. Howard's sense for news saw him rise to
become the undisputed most powerful gossip editor in the world,
publishing dozens of salacious tabloid magazines each week,
including Us Weekly, The National Enquirer,
Star, In Touch, Life & Style,
RadarOnline.com, and more. Described by the New
Yorker magazine's Jeffrey Toobin as "a tabloid prodigy" and
AdWeek as "the king of Hollywood scoops," Dylan also brought
to light: the hate-fueled audiotapes of Oscar-winning
actor/director Gibson blasting former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva;
the scandal-plagued death of screen darling Farrah Fawcett; the
naming of the mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child; the
demise of star-on-the-rise politician Anthony Weiner; and the Tiger
Woods sex scandal. He also broke the story of the A-list
high-stakes poker scam that was later made into the Oscar-nominated
film Molly's Game. Most recently, Howard made a name for
himself with a stunning expose of Sheen that revealed Hollywood's
most unapologetic hedonist was HIV positive. It also was a story of
extraordinary corruption, violence, lies, intimidation, death
threats, and millions of dollars paid out in hush money-a story
that he chronicled in a first-person essay for The Hollywood
Reporter that AdWeek called "jaw dropping." In 2011,
Howard was named Entertainment Journalist of the Year at the
National Entertainment Journalism Awards, where the judges labelled
him the "go-to guy for authoritative showbiz news and analysis on
cable and over-the air television." Howard lives in New York
City.
"The Real Molly's Game."
-Michael Kaplan, New York Post
"Read Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist! I love it, it's
fantastic! Ten times better than Molly's Game...I'm floored.
Dang, what a life Houston lived through. Great stuff and a great
read!"
-Vince Van Patton, Host, World Poker Tour
"I enjoyed reading Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist. I played
in some of those games and knew all the players. While games like
those may never happen again in poker history because of this book,
I will say, it's an interesting read."
-Mike Sexton, chairman of Party Poker and World Poker Tour host
"Incredible! I Couldn't put it down. Billion Dollar Hollywood
Heist is a fantastic read that puts you in the game and right
in the action thru this rollercoaster of big wins and losses with
millions on the table. Curtis is not afraid to name names and takes
you into the biggest poker game in the History of Hollywood!"
-Pauly Howard, host of VSiN Follow the Money
"An exceptionally well written page turner. So good in fact, that I
decided to ask the author to become a featured columnist for
Card Player magazine!"
-Justin Marchand, CMO, Card Player magazine
"Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist is a book you will not stop
reading once you pick it up. Curtis and Maguire pulled off the
greatest card hustle in Hollywood history. Being the owner of a
rival publishing company that releases books steeped in the world
of gambling, I admit, this book falls into the 'ones that got away'
category."
-Anthony Curtis, Las Vegas Advisor
"Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist is an incredible true story
that will amaze you and touch you deeply. Houston Curtis bares his
soul while sharing the highs and lows of running the biggest poker
game Hollywood has ever seen.
-John B. Mills, Caravan to Midnight
"Shocking, Alluring and heartbreaking! In this unforgettable true
story, the author lures you into a hypnotic world that most people
can only dream about...but Houston Curtis lived it!"
-Wayne Clingman, host of Radio Free Mafia and BlogTalk Radio
"Molly's Game-pure unadulterated fiction. Not the least bit
accurate in any way. I didn't necessarily play in any of Molly's
games, but I have played with and know nearly all the characters in
the film. Read Houston's book if you want to get a more accurate
depiction."
-Haralabos Voulgaris, director of quantitative research and
development for the Dallas Mavericks
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