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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.
The female perspective on how to win this ever-popular game.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
There are two types of people in Texas: those who play 42 and those
who need to learn. Winning 42 is written for both. A team game that
no one tires of, 42 does not rely mostly on luck or memory. Skill
and strategy separate the best from the rest. Veterans who relish
the logic of each domino played will find challenge in the advanced
chapters and fascination in the history and lore. Many who've grown
up with 42 are nonetheless surprised by its utterly Texan heritage,
reaching back over a century and a quarter. Beginners will find
easy instruction in all the basics, from bidding a hand or setting
an opponent to the challenge of the 84 hand, and can advance at
their own pace. Replete with championship statistics and stories
from veteran players and strategists--including many celebrities
from astronauts to presidents--Winning 42 illumines a cherished
tradition that links Texans from all walks of life.
Straight Flush is the true story of a group of University of
Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the
basement of a local bar into one of the largest online poker
companies in the world. At its height, the group's online empire
was bringing in revenues of over a million dollars a day. The
industry they launched grew so huge so fast, and in such a grey
area of US and international law, at first it was never really
clear whether their actions were legal or criminal. From setting up
their operations in Costa Rica, to their efforts at building a veil
of legitimacy in Vancouver; from embracing a hedonistic lifestyle
of girls, drugs and money to becoming some of the richest people in
the world; from engaging in operations against their competitors
that sometimes escalated into near all-out wars to the legal
battles that finally resulted in one of them heading to prison and
another living life on the run - Straight Flush is an exclusive
look behind the headlines of one of the biggest stories of the past
decade.
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.
Steve Wynn is the former owner of the Bellagio -- Las Vegas's
latest monument to conspicuous consumption whose hotel and casino
contain over $300 million in fine art and $1.5 billion in Wall
Street money. He's a mogul whose empire at one point included the
Mirage, the Golden Nugget, and Treasure Island. But how did he gain
and wield his tremendous power in Nevada? And why did a
confidential Scotland Yard report prevent him from opening a casino
in London? When this biography, written by a local reporter, was
first released in 1995, Steve Wynn brought suit against its
original publisher and forced him into bankruptcy. Now available in
paperback, the inside story of the biggest phenomenon to roil Las
Vegas since Hoover Dam gives readers an intimate glimpse at the
real business that's conducted beyond the gaming tables.
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...
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