While telling the story of how one individual, a journalist, beat 500 to 1 odds to win the World Series of Poker, this program also reveals some of the greatest gambling schemes, both legal and illegal, in history. On assignment in Las Vegas for Harper's, Jim McManus used his writer's fee to enter the match he was covering and wound up beating all 500 players to walk away with $1.5 million in cash. But in Vegas, McManus is the exception.moreless