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| Author | : Richard W. Munchkin |
| Publisher | : Huntington Press Inc |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2012-03 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 0929712684 |
Get into the minds of the greatest gamblers of all time. Read in-depth interviews with eight masters of the games. Learn how they think, how they play, and what made them successful. The interview subjects include: Billy Walters (sports betting), Chip Reese (poker), Doyle Brunson (poker), Mike Svobodny (backgammon), Stan Tomchin (backgammon and sports betting), Cathy Hulbert (blackjack and poker), Alan Woods (blackjack and horse racing), and Tommy Hyland (blackjack).
| Author | : Amanda Creiglow |
| Publisher | : Waldron Lake Books |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2021-06-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1955407045 |
Magic may be secret, but it’ll kill you anyway. Twenty-eight-year-old mayor’s assistant Elizabeth has enough on her plate grieving her father’s suicide. She doesn’t need his stash of magical knowledge in the attic. She doesn’t need the hidden supernatural subculture of monsters it pulls her into. And she certainly doesn’t need hints that her father’s madness might have been a smokescreen for something far darker. But uncovering her father’s secrets could be the only way Elizabeth can stop a string of suspicious suicides… if the local wizard doesn’t rip the memories out of her mind, first. Wizards, right?
| Author | : Adam Kucharski |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2016-02-23 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0465098592 |
"An elegant and amusing account" of how gambling has been reshaped by the application of science and revealed the truth behind a lucky bet (Wall Street Journal). For the past 500 years, gamblers-led by mathematicians and scientists-have been trying to figure out how to pull the rug out from under Lady Luck. In The Perfect Bet, mathematician and award-winning writer Adam Kucharski tells the astonishing story of how the experts have succeeded, revolutionizing mathematics and science in the process. The house can seem unbeatable. Kucharski shows us just why it isn't. Even better, he demonstrates how the search for the perfect bet has been crucial for the scientific pursuit of a better world.
| Author | : Dustin D. Marks |
| Publisher | : Index Publishing Group |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 1995-10-01 |
| Genre | : Games |
| ISBN | : 9781568660738 |
Begins where the author's best-selling Cheating at Blackjack left off. This former high-stakes cheater knows the game and he tells all! The definitive source on how professional con men cheat at the game. Covers switching cards in play, stacking the deck, adding to the bet after seeing the cards, stealing chips, the use of disguises, using computers to cheat, and much more.
| Author | : William Poundstone |
| Publisher | : Hill and Wang |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 2010-06-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0374707081 |
In 1956, two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of information theory—the basis of computers and the Internet—to the problem of making as much money as possible, as fast as possible. Shannon and MIT mathematician Edward O. Thorp took the "Kelly formula" to Las Vegas. It worked. They realized that there was even more money to be made in the stock market. Thorp used the Kelly system with his phenomenally successful hedge fund, Princeton-Newport Partners. Shannon became a successful investor, too, topping even Warren Buffett's rate of return. Fortune's Formula traces how the Kelly formula sparked controversy even as it made fortunes at racetracks, casinos, and trading desks. It reveals the dark side of this alluring scheme, which is founded on exploiting an insider's edge. Shannon believed it was possible for a smart investor to beat the market—and William Poundstone's Fortune's Formula will convince you that he was right.
| Author | : Arnold Snyder |
| Publisher | : Huntington Press Inc |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2012-11-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1935396609 |
SHE’S GOD. HE’S A GAMBLER. IT’S A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN … OR HELL? Risk of Ruin is a love story unlike any you’ve ever read—dark, disturbing, irreverent, some might say sacrilegious—while protagonists Bart and Stacy may be the most compelling misfits to go on the lam since Bonnie and Clyde. The first work of fiction to be released by well-known gambling expert and author Arnold Snyder, Risk of Ruin is a provocative story of crime, passion, rebellion, and possible redemption that attempts to answer a question that has tormented gambling men since Adam placed that all-in bet on Eve: Is she worth the risk?
| Author | : John Patrick |
| Publisher | : Lyle Stuart |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780818406072 |
The author of more than ten books on gambling now examines the psychological, discipline, and money-management aspects of a gaming session and teaches the gambler how to hold on to his winnings while minimizing his losses.
| Author | : Jean Scott |
| Publisher | : Huntington Press Inc |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2006-08 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 0929712439 |
Frugal Video Poker is the most comprehensive book ever written on practicing, playing, and winning at this popular casino game. Video poker is beatable when you know what pay schedules to look for and how to play when you find them. Whether you want to play for profit or merely make your money last longer in a casino, Frugal Video Poker will take you where you want to go. Beginners are walked through the basics, first learning to distinguish between good and bad paytables, then playing the strategies that maximize the machine's potential. Players who already have some experience will discover crucial bridge concepts that lead to improved results. For experts, Frugal Video Poker covers special opportunities, such as tournaments, promotions, progressives, and the cutting-edge new games--an extensive resource section paves the way to advanced study. And everyone can benefit from the detailed lessons on how to use readily available video poker computer software to take the game to its highest level.
| Author | : Charley Rosen |
| Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2002-12-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781583225622 |
In The Wizard of Odds, renowned and best-selling basketball writer Charley Rosen brings us for the first time the full life story of Jack Molinas, one of the greatest basketball players of his era, a man whose gambling addiction and hubris caused his ultimate demise. Drawing on numerous, previously unavailable first-person accounts, including Jack Molinas’s own journal and trial transcripts, Rosen presents the true saga of a man who perhaps better than anyone around him understood the weaknesses of the system in which he lived—so much so that he convinced himself that he could manipulate that system to his advantage with total impunity, in a life’s journey that took him from NBA play to the Mafia and the pornographic film industry, and to an ultimate tragic destiny.
| Author | : Juliet E. McKenna |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 518 |
| Release | : 1999-08-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0061020362 |
The Secrets of the Shadow-Men Magic? It's for the rich, the powerful...the Archmage and his elite wizards and cloud-masters. Livak is not among them. She haunts the back taverns of the realm, careful to appear neither rich nor poor, neither tall nor short . . . neither man nor woman. Obscurity is her protection, thievery her livelihood, and gambling her weakness. Alas, some bets are hard to resist. Particularly when they offer a chance to board a ship for Hadrumal, the fabled city of the Archmage. So Livak follows a minor wizard, Shiv, in an attempt to turn a rune or two, never dreaming that the stolen tankard she wants to sell contains the secrets of an ancient magic far more powerful, and infinitely darker, than any mortal mage's spells.
