In a dingy New York delicatessen, a young sports bettor named Charlie is summoned to meet with Jackie Gazzo, a seasoned underworld figure. Jackie challenges Charlie's consistent winning streak and offers him a high-stakes partnership, forcing Charlie to decide between his academic ambitions and a dangerous life of professional gambling.
JACKIE: So you’re the kid?
CHARLIE: I’m Charlie Logan.
JACKIE: Do you know who I am?
[Charlie replies with just a slow nod]
JACKIE: Do you know why you’re here?
[Charlie shakes his head]
JACKIE: I hear someone hit a twenty-to-one at Aqueduct for ten large, I don’t blink. I hear someone hit for fifty large laying nine on the Jets, I don’t blink. But when six books tell me that for a year straight some kid is beating them up with lousy dime bets on basketball, baseball and football, while hitting three races a day, five days a week, you know what I do?
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