This book is written for those who occasionally visit Las Vegas or Atlantic City for a vacation, or a couple days of fun. While there, one can't help but drop coins into the slot machines in hopes of hitting a jackpot. They are drawn to the casino's gaming floor like a metal paper clip is to a magnet by the sound of coins dropping into the slot machine's metal pan, flashing lights, strange slot machine sounds, and screams of those hitting a jackpot. functions, and be informed of a method of play that will increase one's odds of winning. Let me be honest, though, and say that no matter what method one plays the slot machines, luck is a major factor in whether one wins or not. To know what slot machines to patronize, and having a good method of play will certainly increase one's luck. One will also be informed when it's time to depart the casino's gaming floor, and I can only hope they heed the advice as not to ruin their vacation.

Tom Collins known as "The King of Video Keno" has authored a quick and easy guide to winning at Video Keno.

Tom, a 15 year author of technical and "how-to" manuals, has written an easy to understand guide that is short and to the point. This is a one of a kind source of knowledge you should read before you drop one more coin into a Video Keno machine. "Keno Winner: A Guide to Winning at Video Keno" covers essential winning topics such as: Identifying trends and groups of numbers to help you win more often.
Using the "seven number payoff" to identify "high pay machines" and avoid "low pay machines."
Avoiding Video Keno machines that are "scattering" numbers; making you a sure loser.
Taking advantage of "Vertical or Horizontal Blocking" video Keno machines, dramatically increasing your chances of winning.

"Keno Winner: A Guide to Winning at Video Keno" is an easy to read guide that will show you how to become a winner of some of the largest jackpots the casino has to offer.

A guide designed to help you select the right machines and make the correct drawing decisions in the most popular of all slot games.

The number one best-selling craps title of all time. And now this classic title has been completely updated for those gamblers who want to figure out how to beat the house! Until now, craps has been considered an unbeatable casino game because the house has the edge on every bet. "This book changes all that by introducing you to the 'Supersystem', a method developed by the 'Captain', a player who for years has been winning at the game players and pundits call unbeatable. Want to beat the casinos while they pay for your room, food, and entertainment? Learn how to take advantage of casino comps reserved for high rollers without the risks. Discover which casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City are best to play craps at and why. In the updated edition, Scoblete has added extensive material, including an exclusive interview with the Captain, a comprehensive section on hedge betting, and an amazing study of the efficacy of the 5-Count by Dr Don Catlin of the University of Massachusetts.

"Double Down" is a true story, a terrifying roller-coaster ride deep into the heart of two men, and into the world of floating Gulf Coast casinos. When both of their parents died within a short time of each other, the writers Frederick and Steven Barthelme, both professors of English in Mississippi, inherited a goodly sum of money. What followed was a binge during which they gambled away their entire fortune-and more. And then, in a cruel twist of fate, they were charged with cheating at the tables.
Told with a mixture of sadness and wry humor, and with a compelling look at the physical aura of gambling-the feel of the cards, the smell of the crowd, the sounds of the tables-"Double Down" is a reflection on the lure of challenging the odds, the attraction of stepping into the void. A cautionary tale (the brothers were eventually exonerated), it is a book that, once read, will never be forgotten.

Louisiana is our most exotic state. It is religious and roguish, a place populated by Cajuns, Creoles, Rednecks, and Bible-thumpers. It is a state that loves good food, good music, and good times. Laissez les bons temps rouler -- let the good times roll -- is the unofficial motto. Louisiana is also excessively corrupt.

In the 1990s, it plunged headlong into legalized gambling, authorizing more games of chance than any other state. Leading the charge was Governor Edwin Edwards, who for years had flaunted his fondness for cold cash and high-stakes gambling, and who had used his razor-sharp mind and catlike reflexes to stay one step ahead of the law. Gambling, Edwin Edwards, and Louisiana's political culture would prove to be a combustible mix.

Bad Bet on the Bayou tells the story of what happened when the most corrupt industry came to our most corrupt state. It is a sweeping morality tale about commerce, politics, and what happens when the law catches up to our most basic human desires and frailties.

The Insider Guide Instant Win Tickets is a 'How to' guide. It answers the questions of how to win, how to sell and how to profit from instant win tickets. This book will increase player's odds of winning.

A casino manager fights discrimination, regulations and ever-changing state policies during his career.

Long recognized as the gambler's "bible," The Winner's Guide to Casino Gambling is the most comprehensive book in its field, covering blackjack, craps, roulette, baccarat, keno, slots, the side games, video poker, and others. You will learn: * How to play such games as Caribbean Stud Poker, Let It Ride (R), Chuck-A-Luck, and others * What theme casinos in Las Vegas, such as the MGM Grand, Luxor, and Treasure Island, mean for Gamblers * Which states have Native American reservation casinos, and which games are offered there * Where you can get in on riverboat gambling along the Mississippi and other great American waterways, how and where you can play the new electronic games Plus: a glossary of terms for each game, tips on self-control and money management, casino etiquette, methods of protecting your winnings, and much more-all supplemented with solid, timeless techniques to slant the odds in your favor and make you a winner! "A must-read book, written by the man many consider to be the greatest authority on gambling in the world."-Gambling Times Magazine "Edwin Silberstang knows more about gambling from the inside and outside than any of the other current writers on the subject. I wholeheartedly recommend his expert advice."-John Luckman, Publisher, Gambler's Book Club

A day at the races, with its colorful variety and fast-paced action, appeals to people from all walks of life. Not surprisingly, the idea of going home with a few more dollars than when one arrived is part of horseracing's charm. In this entertaining but substantive volume, two distinguished economists, who happen to be horseracing buffs, outline a tested strategy for placing bets that will increase the reader's chances of a happy outcome at the track.

The authors are the first to point out that getting rich at the racetrack is unlikely. They do maintain, however, that with attention to their systematic approach, the racing fan can achieve the best possible chance at winning. In the process, the reader learns some of the most important measurement techniques in the social sciences, as well as the basic methods of market analysis.

In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination where prosperous postwar Americans could enjoy vices largely forbidden elsewhere, and it emerged in the sixties as a national hotspot, the glitzy resort city that lights up the American West today. Becoming America's Playground chronicles the vice and the toil that gave Las Vegas its worldwide reputation in those transformative years. Las Vegas's rise was no happy accident. After World War II, vacationing Americans traveled the country in record numbers, making tourism a top industry in such states as California and Florida. The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce saw its chance and developed a plan to capitalize on the town's burgeoning reputation for leisure. Las Vegas pinned its hopes for the future on Americans' need for escape. Transforming a vice city financed largely by the mob into a family vacation spot was not easy. Hotel and casino publicists closely monitored media representations of the city and took every opportunity to stage images of good, clean fun for the public - posing even the atomic bomb tests conducted just miles away as an attraction. The racism and sexism common in the rest of the nation in the era prevailed in Las Vegas too. The wild success of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack performances at the Sands Hotel in 1960 demonstrated the city's slow progress toward equality. Women couldn't work as dealers in Las Vegas until the 1970s, yet they found more opportunities for well-paying jobs there than many American women could find elsewhere. Gragg shows how a place like the Las Vegas Strip - with its glitz and vast wealth and its wildly public consumption of vice - rose to prominence in the 1950s, a decade of Cold War anxiety and civil rights conflict. Becoming America's Playground brings this pivotal decade in Las Vegas into sharp focus for the first time.

Tabletop and board games aren't just for rainy days or awkward family events anymore. As the game industry grows, people of all ages are jumping to play "the original social network." In our ever-increasing technological world, playing old-school games is a welcome retreat from the overexposure to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and the rest of social media. Over the past few years, board games have become the hot new hobby. Instead of friends sitting around the same table and staring at their phones, they are now either working with or against each other. Millions upon millions of new fans have begun to join their friends in real life for a fun game of Pandemic, 7 Wonders, or Ticket to Ride. The Everything Tabletop Games Book shows how to play some of the best tabletop games in the world, from classic strategy games like Settlers of Catan to great new games like Gloomhaven. Throughout the book, you'll learn the different genres of tabletop and board games; how to play each game; rules and strategies to help you win; and even where to play online-including new expansions to keep your favorite games fresh and exciting. So gather up some friends, pick a game from this book, and start playing! You'll be having a blast in no time.

You can't play Major League Baseball and bet on a game; just ask Pete Rose. Don't try running a betting ring in the NHL, either. Want the surest ticket out of NCAA sports? Betting's the way to do it. In stark contrast, however, the United States Golf Association officially sanctions betting among players during their games. And it's not just the pros who bet. Every man, out with his buddies, asks at the first tee, "Shall we make this interesting?" Yet there has never been a betting scandal in organized golf."Money Golf" is the first book that tells the complete story of golf's unique association with wagering and how that relationship evolved. It features anecdotes from fifteenth-century Scots to Tiger Woods and all the smooth-swinging flatbellies, movie stars, athletes, politicians, women golfers, Joe Six-Packs, hustlers, and sharks in between. It also serves as a primer for novice golf bettors, providing explanations of Calcuttas (betting auctions), odds-making, on-course games, and the art and history of golf hustling. It even highlights movies and books that include golf wagers, showing that even writers understand the marriage of the two.Wagering on golf has been part of the game since it migrated to the United States in 1888. All of the early icons of American golf bet when they played-Francis Ouimet, Walter Hagen, and Gene Sarazen. Even Bobby Jones, the simon-pure amateur, wagered on his game. Sam Snead and Ben Hogan always had a little something on the side; so did Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and Gary Player. Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson learned how to bet on golf when they were little kids. All the personalities, stories, and history of betting on birdies are included in"Money Golf."

In every pub in every town unspoken stories lie beneath the surface.

Each week, six women meet at The Bluebell Inn. They form an unlikely and occasionally triumphant ladies darts team. They banter and jibe, they laugh. But their hidden stories of love and loss are what, in the end, will bind them.

There is Mary, full of it but cradling her dark secret; Lena - young and bold, she has made her choice; the cat woman who must return to the place of her birth before it's too late. There's Maggie, still laying out the place for her husband; and Pegs, the dark-eyed girl from the travellers' site bringing her strangeness and first love. And Katy: unappreciated. Open to an offer.

They know little of each other's lives. But here they gather and weave a delicate and sustaining connection that maybe they can rely on as the crossroads on their individual paths threaten to overwhelm.

With humanity and insight, Kit Fielding reveals the great love that lies at the heart of female friendship.

Raw, funny and devastating, all of life can be found at the Bluebell.

These seven precedent-setting case studies taken from the files of the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Commission illustrate vital issues addressed in the first decade of Las Vegas' megaresorts.

For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'; the biggest high roller to hit Sin City in decades, a hotshot, twenty one year-old kid with a seemingly unlimited bankroll and an even more unlimited lust for big money action. His name was Semyon Dukatch, and stories swirled in his wake. Some said he was a Russian arms dealer, others a pop star from Eastern Europe. But the truth was even more unlikely: he was a twenty-one year old graduate student who had a plan that would one day make him richer than anyone could possibly imagine. The Darling of Las Vegas quickly became a legend in the casino world. He is the only person banned from the island of Aruba. He was held, at gunpoint, in a cave in Monte Carlo and told that if he ever returned, he'd be murdered. And he made millions of dollars playing blackjack, using three simple techniques that gave him the edge, techniques that are revealed in this book for the first time. This is his story, the ultimate true story of Las Vegas, the book Vegas doesn't want you to read...