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Praying for a Winner

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The legendary reporter takes a look at a man who loves the racing tracks.

Jimmy Breslin

Updated Jun. 20, 2018 4:23PM ET / Published Nov. 21, 2015 12:01AM ET 
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Eddie Kay turned up the edge of his hole card. Beautiful, he said to himself. Ace of diamonds. He already had an ace showing. There were no pairs and no higher card out on the table.

“Twenty,” Eddie Kay said.

The guy next to him, a luncheonette owner, put out forty.

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