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This book addresses many of gambling's abstract concepts-proportional wagering, considerations for games with variable payoffs, the effects of rebates on losses-as well as more mainstream subjects, such as the casino's treatment of hold percentage...

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Golf-writer and hacker extraordinaire, Michael Konik roams the golfing universe in this outstanding collection of stories about the game and its grandeur. Konik's intimate profiles take you inside the minds and motives of some of the biggest names...

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Buried within this seemingly simple game is a mathematical puzzle so complex, the game has long been considered unsolvable by the mathematical world. But now the code has been broken and an optimal strategy discovered for playing Yahtzee. This boo...

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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), ...

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Castle Frazer is a 27-year-old gambler and "steering man". Rich Stillman is an 11-year-old poolshark. The two meet in Kentucky in the early 1940s and, under Castle's tutelage, little Rich quickly graduates from pool to poker (and later, ...

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Plenty of gambling books explain how to play the games -- that's Gambling 101. "Gambling 102" takes you to the next stage, where you are playing the games in the best manner for the least amount of effort. Within these pages, gambling's ...

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When Barry Meadow decided to take two months off from his everyday life to play blackjack in every Nevada casino, he had no idea what he would find. Leaving behind his business, his fiancee, and his son, he set out on the road with a suitcase, a t...

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The casino floors are jammed with new and different kinds of slot machines. In this guide John Robison tells you what they are, how they work, and how you should play them. Formerly sold only in bulky report format, this new pocket-sized book can ...

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A penetrating look at Bob Stupak, controversial casino owner and builder of the Stratosphere Tower, the tallest structure west of the Mississippi. Between his early years as the son of a notorious gambling operator in Pittsburgh and the grand open...

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It was Las Vegas' crime of the century. Lonnie "Ted" Binion, ne'er-do-well son of the famed casino owner Benny Binion, was found dead in his home September 19, 1998. Some claimed overdose, others speculated suicide, investigators said mu...

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From the 1970s through the mid-1980s, the Chicago Outfit dominated organised crime in Las Vegas. Unreported revenue, known as the "skim" from Outfit-controlled casinos made its way out of Vegas by the bagful, ending up in the coffers of ...

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Poker tournaments have taken television by storm. So what's next? Blackjack. Ken Einiger is a tournament champion, having won the 2005 World Series of Blackjack on national television. In "Play to Win", Ken introduces you to blackjack to...

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The Queen of Comps is Back! Actually, she never left. Since the publication of the best-selling "The Frugal Gambler" in 1998, Jean Scott has been busily plying her low-roller trade in casinos throughout America and sharing ehr exploits w...

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Learn the low-roller secrets for: Staying free at hotel-casinos; Beating casino promotions; Eating and drinking on the house; Playing video poker for profit; Getting bumped from aeroplanes and flying free.

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The most comprehensive book ever written on practising, 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 o...

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Vegas as a queer fantasyland? You bet! These days, the ultimate heterosexual adult playground is so awash in pink and lavender, in hot guys and same-sex subtexts, that Bugsy and Sinatra would hardly recognise the town. Twenty-first century Sin Cit...

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Bob Dancer is the world's number-one video poker expert. His real-life video poker successes are legendary, but he s also a world-class teacher. Now, after years of creating the industry standards in video poker reports, strategy cards, and softwa...

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Sex is for sale 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in Nevada's legal brothels. Former madam Lora Shaner takes you into the parlour -- and bedroom -- of Sheri's Ranch, in this compelling account of the sex-for-money culture. Read about the nun turned...

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Imagine what it must have been like to be in Las Vegas during its most glamorous and eventful years: the 1950s, when you could rub elbows with powerful politicians, famous entertainers, and notorious gangsters; the 1960s, when Howard Hughes' corpo...

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Meet the explorers, builders, outlaws, gamblers, entrepreneurs, and 14-karat characters who transformed Las Vegas from a desert watering hole into the extraordinary city it is today. A D Hopkins and K J Evans of the Las Vegas Review Journal have c...

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This book brings together the best writing of Las Vegas' most popular columnist, the Las Vegas Review Journal's John L Smith. Smith provides singular insights into the fast, fluid, and often funny town he's chronicled for nearly 20 years. Subjects...

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Mike Weatherford resurrects the mystique of Las Vegas Golden Age -- the '60s-cool of history and legend-and introduces Sin City s hipster legacy to new generations of Vegasphiles. Meet '50s and '60s lounge greats the Treniers, the Mary Kaye Trio, ...

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This coffee-table art book is one-of-a-kind. From hundreds of portrayals created over centuries by celebrated artists, such as Cezanne, Picasso, Munch, Leger, de la Tour, Remington, and Neiman, the best 120 were chosen to appear in this provocativ...

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Take a behind-the-scenes no-holds-barred tour of your neighbourhood strip club. These adventures -- both high and low -- in the topless trade are culled from author Lacey Lane's seven years as an exotic dancer. This book takes you on an outlandish...

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Outstanding selection of writings from the world's only regular poker column in a daily newspaper. These columns traverse the universe of poker, from the various venues to famous moments, from advice on playing the games to snapshots of the great ...

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Max Kugar is a dealer in vintage sporting and military treasures, a veteran of Afghanistan combat, and owns a history of heartbreak with women named Carolyn. Another Carolyn, a unsuccessful actress, retains Kugar to broker the sale of her priceles...

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"Kill Everyone" took the poker world by storm when it was first released in 2007. Its perfect blend of real-time experience, poker math, and computational horsepower created new concepts and advanced strategies never before seen in print...

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Thanks to television, the internet, and the incredible popularity of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, when Kill Phil was first published in 2006, tournament poker had become the richest sport in the world. The problem was that no-limit hold...

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This book lays out a revolutionary conceptual framework for no-limit hold 'em based on understanding your purpose for every bet during every hand of every sessions of poker you ever play again. Rather than hard-and-fast rules, Decide to Play Great...

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Mahjong is East Asia's most traditional and recognisable game. Due to its apparent complexity, Westerners, however, often disregard this intriguing and addictive game. No longer! Written by Jenn Barr, the first American to be inducted into the pre...

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