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Breandán Delap is an award-winning author and journalist. He was born in Bunbeg, County Donegal, just a half-mile from Vincent Coll's birthplace. He is a news editor with RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster, and the producer of Seacht Lá, a weekly current-affairs program on TG4, the Irish-language station. He's also a translator of children's books, The Irish Times drama critic in the west of Ireland, and the author of two books in Gaelic about the Irish media: Ar an Taifead: Fis, Fuaim, Focal, and Scéal Scéil, both published by Cois Life.
Breandán was named Oireachtas Journalist of the Year in 1998 and again in 2010. In 2003, he won the ESB Journalist of the Year award for his exposé of a sex-abuse scandal in an Irish summer college over a 30-year period. In 2014, Breandán received a WITBN (World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network) award for investigative journalism.
He lives in Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland.
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Don Schlesinger has been involved with blackjack, in several capacities, for over 40 years. As a writer, lecturer, teacher, and player, Schlesinger has "done it all," in casinos worldwide.
Schlesinger was born in 1946 and graduated from the City College of New York (CCNY) with a B.S. degree in mathematics. In addition, he holds M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in French from the City University of New York.
A former teacher of mathematics and French in the New York City school system, Don changed professions in 1984 and, until 1998, enjoyed a successful career at one of Wall Street's most prestigious investment banks, where he was a principal (executive director) of the firm. Now in semi-retirement, he continues to pursue business ventures in the financial community. In 2015, Don was inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Fame.
Eric Raskin is no stranger to covering poker: He has been the editor-in-chief of ALL IN magazine and its website allinmag.com since 2005. He has been to the World Series of Poker five times as a member of the media, and though he has never bought into an actual WSOP event, he did eliminate Anthony Michael Hall on the very first hand of the WSOP media/celebrity charity tournament in 2006. He is also comfortably in the black as a small-stakes online-poker player.
Eric is a contributing writer to countless magazines and websites, including Grantland.com, Playboy, ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com, and HBO.com. When he's not writing or editing poker articles, the majority of his work focuses on boxing. He is a six-time Boxing Writers Association of America award winner.
Lissa Townsend Rodgers was born in Poughkeepsie and spent her formative years in New York City before eventually moving to Las Vegas. She has worked as a journalist and editor for a vast array of publications, as well as a teacher and a librarian. This is her first book.
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