From "Casablanca" to "The Hustler", from "Moby Dick" to "How I Made $1, 000, 000 Playing Poker", this title presents widely varied musings that address the entire range of human emotion - the highs of excitement of the "juice" down to the depths of despair of losing.
The casino floors are jammed with different kinds of slot machines. This title tells you what they are, how they work, and how you should play them. It contains graphics of slot and video poker pay schedules you can encounter, along with representative return percentages.
With the introduction of betting on the internet, and the growth in exchange betting, there are now so many ways of placing a bet that it can become confusing for the beginner. This book is a compilation of the various betting terms and types you might come across while placing a bet.
Bob Dancer is the best known video poker player and writer in the world. In just six years, after coming to Las Vegas with a $6, 000 bankroll, Dancer won more than $1 million playing beatable machines. This title recounts the events of those six years, with stories about his meteoric ups and downs, and lessons for players of various skill levels.
Gambling is fun. Winning is better. This book shows you how to: succeed with proven betting strategies; manage your money successfully; learn what the professional gamblers know; pace yourself and know when to quit; and, maintain self-control under pressure.
Of all the people who benefit from sports racing the "punters" are the last on the list of people who consistently gain. Why is that? Well, it centres on two things: Lack of a proven system and Greed. This book closely examines them, and offers techniques and systems for achieving consistent wins.
Most people playing online poker think they are winning players when they're actually losing month after month. This book helps you find out how to: select the best poker sites for your standard; analyze your opponents and their games; adapt your game to combat the styles of play you meet; and, counter the costly dangers of 'tilt' and temperament.
Betting exchanges are the manifestation of a development in risk markets. Betfair, Betdaq and other exchanges are transforming the way people view risk and gambling. This book provides an analysis of the betting exchange phenomenon and introduces techniques and strategies to trade these markets.
Deals with the innumerable nuances and grey areas of gambling and taxes. This title covers the why's and wherefores of this complex subject, including tax-code specifics, record-keeping, filing your tax return, state-tax considerations, audits and other tax problems-often citing relevant court cases to help you come to the proper conclusions.
Buried within this seemingly simple game is a mathematical puzzle so complex, the game has long been considered unsolvable by the mathematical world. This book shows you how to improve your results with a powerful score-enhancing strategy - based on the best possible way to play - that's been simplified for easy recall and use.
Trading the Betfair sporting markets in-play is rapidly growing in popularity thanks to the increased sporting coverage available on many different satellite and cable channels. This title takes the reader through many low-risk strategies developed by the author, showing how you too can benefit from these approaches to the betting exchanges.
HENRY TAMBURIN ON CASINO GAMBLING contains 100 of the best articles on casino gambling written by gaming expert, Henry Tamburin. Each article focuses on a particular casino game (blackjack, craps, slots, etc, ) with some advice on how to make the best play, reduce your odds, manage your money, and win more.
Mahjong is East Asia's most traditional and recognisable game. Due to its apparent complexity, Westerners, however, often disregard this intriguing and addictive game. This book is suitable for learning all the tricks of the Reach Mahjong pros. It introduces the fascinating world of mahjong, explaining the background, rules, and strategies.
Offers a blend of real-time experience, poker math, and computational horsepower that created new concepts and advanced strategies never before seen in print for multi-table tournaments, Sit-n-Gos, and satellites. This second edition adds even more ammunition to a tournament-poker-player's arsenal.
The story of a year spent by biographer Anthony Holden in the tough world of the professional poker player. He spent days and nights in the poker paradise of Las Vegas, in Malta and Morocco, even shipboard, mingling with the greats, sharpening his game and learning a good deal about himself.
Betfair is the world's leading online betting exchange. Launched in 2000, its annual revenues reached 145m in 2006. In the last year, Betfair has more than doubled its number of registered users. Since the first edition of the book was published, the total number of Betfair websites has risen to 18, and an Australian exchange has launched.
Half the states in the U.S. offer some form of casino gambling, and gamblers spent over $2 billion at American casinos in 2004. This hands-on guide shows would-be high rollers how to maximize winnings and minimize losses in the most popular casino games-poker, blackjack, keno, baccarat, craps, roulette, slot machines, and even sports wagering.
Everyone has opinions on football - but do your opinions make money? This book helps you to maximise your profit potential when betting on the world's favourite sport. It lets you gain insight into the way dressing rooms behave, how managers manage, and the circumstantial factors that pave the way for teams to upset the odds and land big prices.
Showcases some of the best of the football betting markets and how you can profit from them. Highlighting a variety of football markets you can bet on, this book offers you structured analysis of the main markets such as Match Odds, Asian Handicaps, Corners, Bookings, and First and Last goal scorer.
Dave Farrar travels through the global sporting calendar, meeting sporting experts in each field and trying to gain a competitive edge over the bookmakers. The story takes in major events - US Masters golf, the FIFA World Cup, the Ashes - as well as less-visited events such as Ligue 2 in France, Eastern European boxing and cycling's Italian Giro.
This text provides insights into how to improve the return on investments when playing the lottery. The authors show how to improve the odds of winning larger amounts when winning numbers do come up. The pure mathematics is kept to a minimum, making the book accessible to a variety of readers.
A collection of one of the renowned gambling writer's best magazine pieces. It includes stories that take you to the final table of the World Series of Poker where a $1 million prize awaits the winner, to a secret golf course reserved for the biggest gamblers in Las Vegas, and to the inner sanctum of an international bookmaking operation.
There are gamblers who beat the bookmakers regularly. They are few and far between because they need strong self-discipline. There are many more gamblers who don't want the restraint of such discipline. They want good systems that give them the advantage but equally allows them to bet more often. This book features test systems that work and win.
The author has been a casino worker, boss, and owner, an enforcement agent for the Nevada Gaming Control Board, and an advantage player. He has spent decades refining the art of casino management. In this title, he advocates radical - but proven - solutions to common gaming issues.
Tells the story of the lottery from its Ancient Greek origins, through the activities of extraordinary personalities such as Casanova, George Washington and Queen Elizabeth I, the backlash of the moralists such as Wilberforce and the corruption of the Louisiana State Lottery, to its use in allocating school places and public appointments.
Is casino management an art? It is for the best casino managers! This title argues against excessive card-counter and shuffle-tracker countermeasures in favour of hand production to increase profits, and concludes that rhythmic dice rollers are not the threat they are made out to be.
On his way to a master's in astrophysics, Andy Bellin made the mistake of falling in love with poker. This volume is a history of the world's most popular card game, a how-to-manual that can make readers better players and the story of one man's obsession.
The Kill Phil strategy remains highly effective when used in confrontations with even the world's best players, but tournament play is evolving. This edition reflects the new trends in tournament poker by refining the use of the all-in move and providing adaptations that take into account the new style of hyper-aggressive play.
The author spent a year at tracks and off-track betting facilities in Chicago and across the country, profiling the people who make a career of gambling on horses. This account follows his personal journey of what it means to be a horseplayer as he gambles with his book advance using various betting and handicapping strategies along the way.
Provides a comprehensive collection of articles by internationally recognised experts in the study of gambling - doctors and lawyers, journalists and academics. This book presents a range of perspectives on the issue of gambling: from legal, political, and economic, to social, psychological, and ethical.
Pot-Limit Omaha is one of the major poker variants. Over the last twenty years it has increased hugely in popularity on both sides of the Atlantic. Written by a world class Omaha player, this book offers help to those players looking to improve their understanding of this complex game.