Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life…

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected – but which one?

New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.

Based on the true story of the rise and fall of poker legend Stu “The Kid” Ungar.