title: All In: Gambling on Life, Love & Faith in a World of Risk
author:  Michael DiMarco 
description: FRONT FLAP In blackjack, the play that any gambler will tell you to make with aces is to split the aces. This means you put out a bet to match your original bet as if you're playing two hands, and the dealer splits the aces and deals one card on top of each. With all my chips on the table already bet on that hand (just shy of the table max of $500), I had one purple $500 chip still hidden in my pocket. That chip represented my insurance policy. It was money that wasn't mine. I had "borrowed" it from work and needed to return it to keep me in the gambling game. For the first time in my degenerate gambling life, I didn't pray to God for a winning hand or a specific card. Instead, I muttered a simple request as I dug for the chip. "Dear God, get me out of this. I don't care how, just get me out." BACK FLAP Michael DiMarco is the CEO of Hungry Planet, working with authors who wish to reach an increasingly postmodern culture with premodern truth. Michael is the coauthor of Marriable, The Art of the First Date, and The Art of Rejection with his wife, Hayley. They live in Nashville, Tennessee, with their daughter, Addison.
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  # The Daddy Gamble
  
  
  ### Betting On Love, Book 2
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Debra Salonen
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2018 by Debra Salonen
  
  
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  Cover by Rogenna Brewer
  
  
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  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Betting On Love: the series](betting-on-love-the-series.xhtml)
  
  
  