Itas no news that cheating pervades American culture. Americans cheat on taxes, tests, sports and spouses. But the largest arena for cheating may be at the poker table! With an estimated 60-80 million Americans playing poker every weekafor the highest stakes everayou can be sure that not everyone is playing by the rules!
In this fascinating look at the card sharperas artafrom its origins in Renaissance Italy to the high-tech methods of todayadeception expert Allan Kronzek reveals 52 of the most diabolical scams ever invented. Topics include codes and signaling systems, hidden cameras and miniature ear pieces, false shuffles, cuts and deals, peeking and flashing, deck and card switches, culling, instant stacks, marked cards, alocation play, a the acooler, a and dozens of other devious devices.
Each chapter zeroes in on a single cheating concept and provides expert advice on how to spot and foil the scam (when possible!). Youall learn the secrets of "shade, flash," and "juice"athe subtlest marking systems; why cutting the cards doesnat guarantee an honest deal, how a crooked dealer can stack the flop in hold aem, why casino card rooms are "not" 100% safe, and how cheating crews crush the opposition "without" marked cards or sleight of hand.
Thoroughly illustrated and researched, and enlivened with historical sidebars, "52 Ways to Cheat at Poker" is essential reading for anyone who plays cards for moneya or anyone interested in the ingenious ways cheats steal your money while appearing to do nothing at all.

Raceching is one of the most innovative and exciting books ever written. Based on the Confucian classic I Ching, it is written in a unique earthy style that is easy to understand and will appeal to all age groups. The author whose name is the same as the book adds his own ground breaking techniques when it comes to showing people how to make everyday predictions by using the Chinese oracle.
Race has included new information in regard to the lines of the I Ching, by describing a series of actions which he calls single line tenses. These are a set of drawings, showing in graphic detail the actions of each and every line of the sixty-four hexagrams, when they move and change into another (moving line).
Raceching shows a new way to form the hexagrams by a simple process of word and letter counting, this is not only easy to operate, but deadly accurate when making predictions. There is also a chapter dedicated to a technique called psychic anagramming, where readers learn a new way to predict the future by looking for hidden words in a person's name.
However, the most exciting feature about Raceching, is that it centres on horse racing and betting. Race shows his readers how to turn their daily morning newspaper racing page into an exciting new word/anagram game that can pick winners and make profit. I Ching hexagrams are constructed from the name/ time of a horse race by a simple process of word and letter counting. We look for a word or words in the name of the horse - matching it with the Raceching book's blueprint of the winner. There are five logical rules race has invented to make this one of the most exciting word games since the birth of the crossword Raceching, canssomething that is similar to what housewives do on big race days, i.e. looking for personalised word names on a race card that means something to them and their intuition, such as the name of a pet or relative's nickname. It all sounds crazy to the form study boys who have backed the favourite until the thing wins at 33/1- and nobody laughs anymore.
Raceching will appeal to not only followers of I Ching, but also anyone who loves horse racing and gaming in general. It will also appeal to people who love making words, anagrams and letter puzzles. It is a dual purpose I Ching book in one.
Raceching the author is an Englishman with an outstanding knowledge of I Ching. He has based his book around the UK racing scene, but it is easily adapted to fit world markets. This book is the first of its kind, entirely innovative and new in relation to other I Ching publications. When Race says the future is an anagram.... he means it
Raceching.

Is this a great country or what?

You can bet on the turn of the card or a roll of the dice, but also on the NFL, the NCAA, and which Olsen twin marries first. We bet $80 billion a year, the amount growing wildly as more and more people gain access to this huge American wheel of fortune. No longer quarantined in Las Vegas, gambling has become as local and convenient as our neighborhood cineplex. If there's not a casino around the corner, there's one on your laptop computer.

In "Jackpot Nation," Richard Hoffer takes us on a headlong tour, alternately horrifying and hilarious, across our landscape of luck. Whether he's trying to win a side of bacon in a Minnesota bar, hustling a paper sack filled with $100,000 in cash across Las Vegas parking lots, poring over expansion plans with a tribal chief in California, or visiting the New York prison cell of a retired bus salesman with a poor understanding of three-game parlays, Hoffer explores with wit and heart our national inclination--a cultural predisposition, even--to take a chance.

Sorprende a tus amigos y gana su admiracion. Multiplica tu inversion las veces que quieras, con apuestas de ingenio, inteligencia, imaginacion y creatividad. En "Apuestas a ganar" encontraras juegos de logica, de matematicas y fisica recreativa, de habilidad mental y destreza manual, ademas de acertijos, preguntas capciosas, trucos de cartas y objetos de uso diario. Las apuestas tienen un secreto o solucion para ganar la mayoria de las veces. Y siempre que pruebas cada una primero, ganaras tu cada vez. Porque aqui no requieres suerte para ganar: solo accion y conocimiento. Adquiere ahora mismo tu libro y empieza la aventura, la inversion y la diversion.

Continuing his series of books on the mathematics of gambling, the author shows how a simple-rule game such as roulette is suited to a complex mathematical model whose applications generate improved betting systems that take into account a player's personal playing criteria. The book is both practical and theoretical, but is mainly devoted to the application of theory. About two-thirds of the content is lists of categories and sub-categories of improved betting systems, along with all the parameters that might stand as the main objective criteria in a personal strategy - odds, profits and losses. The work contains new and original material not published before. The mathematical chapter describes complex bets, the profit function, the equivalence between bets and all their properties. All theoretical results are accompanied by suggestive concrete examples and can be followed by anyone with a minimal mathematical background because they involve only basic algebraic skills and set theory basics. The reader may also choose to skip the math and go directly to the sections containing applications, where he or she can pick desired numerical results from tables. The book offers no new so-called winning strategies, although it discusses them from a mathematical point of view. It does, however, offer improved betting systems and helps to organize a player's choices in roulette betting, according to mathematical facts and personal strategies. It is a must-have roulette handbook to be studied before placing your bets on the turn of either a European or American roulette wheel.

In The Illustrated Guide to Blackjack former gambling pro Dennis Purdy demonstrates the right move to make in every possible blackjack scenario, using real-game situations and solutions that test and hone reader's skills. In over 150 fully-illustrated pages Purdy not only reveals the best plays for each hand, he shows Why they work--with clear, concise logic, user-friendly charts, and a unique flashcard format that makes each lesson stick. Mastering essential strategies is made easy for beginners and intermediate players alike.

In this humorous but straight-talking work, readers will be introduced to a simple yet highly effective system that can be used in casinos to profit like a pro. The author includes information on money management and greed control. (Games/Gamebooks/Crosswords)

TESTIMONIALS "Wish I had read this book twenty years ago..." --Compulsive gambler "I hope my customers don't read this book..." -- Las Vegas casino president "One of the most complete explanations of gambling pitfalls that I have ever read..." -- Caesars Palace pit boss "I wish my husband had read this book and followed its edicts before it had ruined our lives..." -- Wife of compulsive gambler "If you were moved by Lillian Roth's biography, "I'll Cry Tomorrow," you will doubly be moved by this true story..." -- Sol Bernstein, Tribune book reviewer

Are you tired of allowing the bookmakers to carry on taking your cash? If so, then what you need is the highly innovative and comprehensive guide to creative football betting. "The Football Betting Science" takes a scientific and often far from conventional view to a game that can, when approached the right way, lead to large profits season after season. This guide teaches and encourages you to be creative and very different when choosing your football bets. This guide will open your eyes to a whole new way of thinking when it comes to the betting industry, particularly in football which is such an exciting sport to watch, and even more so when you have money riding on it! Gary Christie is a professional sports writer and gambler. He is a regular contributor to the sporting media, appearing on programmes for AtTheRaces and writing for publications such as In The Know Magazine and the Mirror Group's Sunday Sun. A successful horse-racing gambler, Gary has now turned his attention to the rapidly growing football betting market. Applying his original and creative approaches, Gary has produced a detailed guide on what it takes to be successful in football betting.

The Game Day Poker Almanac Official Rules of Poker is the poker rulebook of the Poker Almanac brand of poker reference books. The rulebook is one of the most complete set of poker rules ever published. Chapters include the Elements of Poker, Robert's Rules of Poker, the Poker Tournament Directors Association Rules, the World Series of Poker Rules, Poker Etiquette, and an extensive Glossary. Includes index and six illustrations. The author, Kelli Mix, is a professional poker player and plays in various top-rated poker tournaments around the United States. The Game Day Poker Almanac is an annual almanac of poker-related information, and is also a series of poker reference books.

Never before published European roulette information
Ingenious layout strategies using six-pack concepts
Secret formula for predicting the exact number
Tracking ball movement

A guide on winning consistently at Online Roulette. Simple and to the point writing about an amazing system for gaining an advantage at online Casinos. This book will show you how to make #1000 per day or more from Online Roulette.

This journal captures the day-by-day, week-by-week excitement of a fall season spent challenging the sports books of. Reno as the author tries to beat the point spread betting college football. While basically the story of one man, armed with a system, going head to head against the oddsmaker, it is also an ethnography of the sports books of Nevada. The author, a professional anthropologist, presents the mo detailed account ever written of just how sports books operate. How is the point spread made? By whom? How does it change, game by game, in response to the money bet? All this and more is revealed. .. . . . But beyond that here is a very human story of an avid football fan, indulging his passion and his hobby, trying doggedly to outsmart the oddsmaker. Moreover; the book catches the flavor of the gambling scene in Reno, as well as reflecting the color and pageantry of college football.

A first-hand look at casino poker in the San Francisco Bay area. A unique insider's experience of the culture, personalities and behavior of players, dealers and casino management. A fascinating view of the realities around 3/6 and 6/12 limit Texas Holdem.

Is winning the lottery jackpot a goal you'd like to achieve because you're seeking financial independence? Or simply because you find it challenging?

In this book, I'll share with you my lottery playing experiences and insights. Together we'll probe the concept of windows into the future, lateral thinking, number bias, and oracles. After reading this book, I hope you'll feel motivated to generate your own ideas for developing playing strategies to help bring your playing skills to a whole new level. You don't have to be a genius or mathematician to win the lottery.

As a bonus, I'll reveal the most important secret all lottery players should know in order to win jackpots.

Good luck!

'C.F. Keller has taught me to become a winner in the lottery. With improved skills, I know that a jackpot of some kind is in my future. I must also comment that the basic quality of my life has improved." - Janis Smith, Senior Manager/Quality Assurance.

MAKE LESS MISTAKES AND IMPROVE YOUR GAME
You have been playing fantastic all night. You have a mountain of chips in front of you. Your buddies surround you, congratulating you on your best night ever. Then you look down and see two black aces This must really be your night You smile to yourself and think of all the fun you will have spending your winnings and one terrifying minute later you see all of your chips getting pushed to your opponent. It happened so quickly that you are not sure of anything, except the fact that after playing great for hours you now have nothing to show for it. All of your chips are gone and all it took was one big mistake. What happened? This is the nature of No Limit Texas Hold 'Em. All of your chips are at risk on every hand. Every mistake is magnified. Every decision is important. At any moment you can lose everything but so can your opponents. Often the player that makes the least mistakes wins. This book details 15 of the most common mistakes found at the poker table. By avoiding these mistakes, you will be able to win more money on a more consistent basis. You will be able to avoid putting your chips into losing situations. You will immediately see when your opponents are making critical playing mistakes and punish them by taking all of their chips This book is also loaded with tips and techniques that will help improve your game immediately. It doesn't matter if you play cash games or tournaments, recreational or for serious cash, this book will make you a better poker player.

"You're Gonna Like TheWay You Win" is a candid report on how Charlie G. plays and wins. Whether or not you play the same as he does is up to you. If you do, you too will win. The strategies herein are certainly not the only ways to win but they stand as being the most reliable ways to win. The elements of chance and error that befall most methods are non existent in these strategies. These pages methodically walk you through each of the four more popular games in the casino, Blackjack, Baccarat, Roulette and Craps. You will not only have learned how to win at each of these games but will have settled into a new approach to gambling totally different from that which you have ever used before. This new way of attacking the casinos is unique only to Charlie G.'s approach to casino gambling. "You're Gonna Like The Way You Win" is designed to make you win and you will.

Man's daily life is full of decisional situations. Whether we have math skills or not, we frequently estimate and compare probabilities, sometimes without realizing it, especially when making decisions. But probabilities are not just simple numbers attached objectively or subjectively to events, as they perhaps look, and their calculus and usage is highly predisposed to qualitative or quantitative errors in the absence of proper knowledge. That is why a book explaining the probability concept and its interpretations and applications for non-mathematicians is a necessity. This is an enlightening journey through the world of probability theory. Its multiple goals are to help the reader understand what probability really means, to teach the reader how to rigorously perform and apply the probability calculus, even without a solid mathematical background, and to stimulate the reader to go deeper into the notions involved. In the first part, the author tries to build a clear image of the probability concept by reconstructing its mathematical definition step by step through its constituent notions. It starts with a general presentation of the conceptual ensemble word - definition - notion - model any theory is based on when trying to reproduce reality. Then, the probability notion is defined and explained starting from the classical definition to the definition for the countable case; then probability is presented as a limit and as a measure. This book presents not only the mathematical concept of probability, but also its philosophical aspects, the relativity of probability and its applications and even the psychology of probability. All explanations are made in a comprehensible manner and are supported with suggestive examples from nature and daily life and even with challenging math paradoxes. After these points are laid out the math chapter follows. It contains all the notions and principal theoretical results that ground Probability Theory, starting with fundamental notions like Sets, Functions, Boole algebras, and Sequences, and continuing with Measure Theory Basics - Tribes, Borel sets, Measurable spaces, and Measure, ending with Field of events, Sigma-fields, Probability, Conditional probability, Discrete random variables, Classical probability distributions, and Convergence. And, of course, it includes all important theorems and results dealing with them. A special section is dedicated to Combinatorics and combinatorial calculus. Readers with no minimal mathematical background may choose to skip this chapter because the teaching material is structured for developing probability calculus skills based on algorithmic procedures. This is the subject of the chapter titled Beginners' Calculus Guide, in which the reader is taught to apply the properties of probability and to perform calculations in practical applications. The skills acquired here can be practiced on the more than 200 solved and unsolved problems and exercises in the book. Everyone should find something of interest here: philosophers and mathematicians may focus on the sections on philosophical matters of the probability model and decisional matters, students and non-mathematicians can find solid A to Z teaching material about Probability Theory and the practical person can find all the tools needed to apply and perform probability calculus without a teacher.

Backgammon is a very interesting game to play with brothers and friends because this skill has two sides; first side, makes you feel very happy in your time like Superman when you become the winner. Second side, makes you feel in a disappointed situation and makes you unlucky when you lose. However, before the game finishes, maybe every thing changes like after a storm comes calm. Nobody knows the dice rules in the game. Indeed, it needs to have good manners from every player to keep his friend playing repeatedly. Whatever, It is a funny game by conflict without weapon in a good time on the table. The players' wisdom says, "If you are the loser in Backgammon's game, you are the winner in love."

Practical low and no limit Texas Hold'em ring game advice to act as a reminder of all the things that you should be doing but aren't. The book includes an approach to playing low limit ring games, review of a low limit ring game session, information on how to calculate the binomial distribution formula - used to determine statistically what kind of gaming session you might have based on your gameplay. The author, Kim Isaac Greenblatt, plays a lot of low limit poker. He is a technical specialist, computer consultant and frankly, hates the game, even though he is pretty good at it. Part of the proceeds from the sales of this book will go to finding a cure for Rett Syndrome.

The book contains never before published roulette information: a revolutionary map of the American roulette wheel head called the Global Pie. The Global Pie Method is an innovative system for memorizing the numbers on the roulette wheel head, used to track ball movement without looking at the roulette wheel head. The roulette table layout reveals ingenious layout strategies using six-pack concepts, and the elusive formula that was used to determine the number sequence of the roulette wheel head.
The Global Pie Method offers a universal language and lingoes. Terms like the "Nuking," "Bow Tie-ing," and "Doing a Hemi" all describe specific ball movements. Other terms define multiple Global Pie strategies: Phoenix, Pendulum, Arrowhead, Hugs and Kisses, Boomerang, Four-Leaf Clover, Clover XXX, and Numbered Partners.
These Global Pie strategies rely on innovative section characteristics to enhance betting strategies and limit the amount wagered to maximize optimum return.
The Global Star System is an independent system designed to track numbers evenly throughout the roulette wheel head. Several Global Star strategies emerge as a result of combining individual stars together: Helicopter, Numbered Partners, Sum Connectors, and Pinwheel.
When combined, the Global Pie Method and the Global Star System, produces a strategy called the Eclipse. The Eclipse is designed to track specific numbers that are due to come in. More importantly, when a Global Pie merges with a Global Star the exact number is revealed.