Books/Software

This work brings a fresh perspective to the history of modern prizefighting as it evolved over several centuries to become one of the most lasting and valued sporting attractions. With his primary focus outside the ropes, Lang shows how organizers, publicity agents, and political allies overcame both legal and moral roadblocks to make fisticuffing a lively commercial enterprise. Begins with the clandestine bare-knuckle fights in 18th century London, and ends with the vibrant, large-scale...

Packed with practical tips and techniques for solving probability problems. Increase your chances of acing that probability exam -- or winning at the casino! Whether you're hitting the books for a probability or statistics course or hitting the tables at a casino, working out probabilities can be problematic. This book helps you even the odds. Using easy-to-understand explanations and examples, it demystifies probability -- and even offers savvy tips to boost your chances of gambling...

This book is an introduction to the topic of problem gambling and its treatment. A variety of different data and information, based on solid research, are drawn upon to understand problem gambling and its treatment. The book follows a logical sequence, beginning with the development of an understanding of problem gambling and ending with a discussion of different kinds of treatment. Useful as an introductory text for students, and for policymakers involved in the legalization, expansion, and...

Thirty-some years ago, Meadow wrote a book called 'Success at the Harness Races', back when the game was vastly different. Now, he takes a more precise look at how the additions, deletions, and major changes to the game have altered the handicapper's edge significantly and how he can get it back.  He covers six major sections, each with at least eight chapters that unravel such mysteries as trip handicapping, how to watch a race, how to use statistics and systems, how to eliminate losers,...

Many poker books focus on professional high-limit holdem games, but middle-limit games give players an option for profit. Steiger analyzes the $30/$60 game and explains what distinguishes successful players from weaker ones, how to size up your opponents fast, read hands and pick up tells, how to bluff and catch bluffers. 334 Pgs. 2009

Three no-limit hold'em cash game wizards present a book aimed at educating players about the most popular version of poker today. Clearly explains concepts such as the REM process, the commitment threshold, and stack-to-pot ratios, showing how to play and think like a pro. Covers sizing your bets properly, managing the pot, manipulating opponents, knowing when to go all in, and avoiding big mistakes. 314 Pgs. 2007

This is a DVD that acts as a training manual for cashiers and other employees who handle money. It includes a Power Point presentation that shows how short change artists work alone or in league with the other side of the cashier window. Includes methods, techniques and scams.

Subtitled 'The Autobiography of Poker Pro Eli Elezra' What does it take to become a top poker player who regularly plays in some of the largest stakes games offered in the Las Vegas Poker Rooms and elsewhere? Of course, everyone's story is a little different. But one of the more unique and interesting ones belongs to poker pro and businessman Eli Elezra. The text begins with Eli taking his seat at the final table of the 2004 Mirage Poker Showdown Tournament which was part of the World Poker...

Queen of Hearts: The Story of Anna Sipl Meyers recounts the life of the first woman of her time to own and successfully manage a hotel and casino in Las Vegas: The first was The Casbah, changed to Queen of Hearts, the second Little Annie’s Nevada Hotel and Casino. Anna Meyers socialized with the noteworthy and the notorious, gentlemen and thugs. She cared for the homeless and the derelicts, and bore the scorn of the Country Club set who ended up celebrating her. Though Anna is very well known...

It was Las Vegas��_�� crime of the century. Lonnie ��_��_��_Ted��_ѝ Binion, ne��_��er-do-well son of famed casino owner Benny Binion, was found dead in his home. Some claimed drug overdose. Others speculated suicide. Investigators said murder.Ted��_��s beautiful girlfriend, Sandy Murphy, and her shadowy lover, Rick Tabish, were charged with Binion��_��s murder and the show began. Quicksilver is the story of the trial that rocked Las Vegas. A classic love triangle, a powerful casino family, and...

Arnold Snyder needs no introduction. One of the seven original members of the Blackjack Hall of Fame, he’s a prolific author of blackjack books, former publisher of the prestigious Blackjack Forum, and a blackjack advantage player extraordinaire. In his first book in many years, Arnold is back with what is shaping up to be his greatest work ever. Radical Blackjack is a memoir, how-to, and exposé all wrapped up in a single book. From his life as a starving letter carrier to making $100,000 bets...

Navarro, a former FBI counter-intelligence officer specializing in nonverbal communication and behavior analysis, offers his knowledge and techniques, with illustrations and examples from poker pro Hellmuth to teach you how to decode your opponents nonverbal cues. Picking up where other books have left off, this book was written by a people reader, not a poker player, who has caught some serious tells given off by some of the worlds best poker experts. 240 Pgs. 2006

This book contains valuable information that can help anyone become a better Blackjack player. The information is not based on some dry impersonal computer program, but rather on the constant changing conditions that the author has observed and researched for the twenty years that he has been dealing blackjack. If you want to bet more wisely, play each hand more perfectly and improve your money management, this book will provide with some new exciting tools. You will also get a "behind the...

An inside look at the ascendancy of a bold new baseball dynasty and the men who built it. 205 pgs, hardcover, 2008

If you collect antique slot machines and wonder at the technological changes made from Bugsy Siegel's days (1946) to today, youre in for a treat with this book, a super source for collectors. In the works for more than 20 years, this books answers the need for a picture book, answering the question of who manufactured what machine and what each machine's correct name is. Each machine listed and photographed contains the original manufacturer's name, date of introduction, nickname and machine...

The revised updated version of Tamburin's work toward educating the beginner seeking a one-volume guide to casino games including those introduced in recent years like Pai Gow Poker, Red Dog, Sic Bo. Tamburin explains the games, the layout, the odds, shows you the House edge of all games. It is packed with charts, tables, strategy, advice, it will influence your play, explaining how to save money through money management and common sense. A small section on Caribbean Stud and Let It Ride....

Subtitled "Policies, Procedures, and Economics". Gaming law is many decades old but has only recently been recognized as a distinct legal discipline. The few, early jurisdictions across the world that permitted gaming regulated it in isolation. When the liberalization of casino gaming took hold in the 1980s, legislators frequently, and irrationally, sought the most “stringent” regulatory regime. The problem was legislators were inexperienced at creating and defining gaming policy goals, and...

A major study of the urbanization of Las Vegas that also provides a look at the city's historical development, this is a scholarly study of Las Vegas' efforts to annex its suburbs. Contains a discussion of the civil rights movement in the city: how Blacks were excluded and how the industry allowed a few influential bigots to control its destiny in the 1930s and 40s. 330 pgs, paperback, 2000

This book explores the effects that the dramatic growth of the Mississippi casino resorts industry have had on the politics, culture and people of Mississippi. Gives insight into the ongoing debate as to how well the casino industry and Mississippi fit together. Political scientists, economic developers, sociologists, and policy analysts provide essays on such topics as the casino workplace, casinos and crime, the historical and cultural influences of casinos, and the economic ramifications....

A true classic, the title refers to the introduction one con man uses to deceive a 'mark,' while setting him up for a bunco scheme. 'The Rich Uncles will be with us until the end of time, because the confidence man thrives on human weakness - the fact that every person is possessed with a desire to obtain something for nothing, or bet on a certainty,' the author says. 64 pages, paperbound, 1911

Turner, a sleight-of hand artist, specializes in gambling techniques. His original effort was a two-volume video set designed to protect the novice from being cheated in poker, later transferred to DVD. Features both videos plus additional bonus features where he performs his entire gambling act and a 13-minute biography. Turner demonstrates more than 200 gambling sleight-of-hand techniques such as: 18 ways of false shuffling and false cutting, stacking the deck using overhand shuffles, riffle...

Designed to protect the novice from being cheated in poker and presented by expert Richard Turner, a nationally acclaimed expert on closeup sleights and cheating , this work here offers more than 100 techniques used by both amateur and professional cheaters. Many of these have never been revealed to the public before. Coverage include examples of false shuffles, false riffle shuffles, nullifying the cut, partial shifts, crimps and bridges, and palming. Also: stacking the deck, switches and...

Bozzi uses his sixty years of expertise in the reading and understanding of the Daily Racing Form. He fills the Road Map with his winning points, plus and minus factors that lead the player to pick the best fit and ready horses that finish up in the top three slots 40% to 60% of the time at any track. 81 Pages Paperbound 2008

Subtitled "A Complete Guide to the Best, Worst, and Most Memorable Players to Ever Grace the Major Leagues". The title says it all: By compiling lists of players in a baseball "lineup" format, the author, an ESPN.com columnist, manages to catalog the game's all-time greats-and all-time bums. Appendix with year-by-year lineups. Indexed 340 Pgs. 2003

Uncovers the techniques for performing: Card Matchum; Rasputin Deck; Mentaldini; Aldini's Deck Press; Socrates Deck; Deckmaster; Nostradamus Deck; How to Use Roughing Fluid; List of Rough and Smooth Decks. 23 pgs, paperback, 1956

Russell focuses on more than two dozen areas of responsibility, including customer courtesy, general conduct, opening the table and counting the bankroll, making change, cheque cutting, marking cheque values, spinning the ball, when the ball drops, after the ball drops, payoff procedures, minimum and maximum bets, cheque rackers responsibilities, currency bets, game protection, conversions, closing games, fills, credits, markers, courtesy call bets, marker redemption and tokes. 49 pgs,...

Thirty sections cover basic play, equipment, game terminology, wagers, general rules and procedures. Handling checks; buy-in procedure; cashing out; dealing and payoffs. On the intermediate level, he instructs pushing anywhere from one to nine stacks, payoffs. On an advanced level, he shows how to properly handle straight up keys; split payoffs, converting wheel checks, casino credit rules, fills and credits. 163 pgs, paperback, 1994

There are those who advocate wheel strategies while some advocate layout strategies. This book is going to show you a combination of both. There is an accurate system for determining which section of the wheel the ball will land on. Candelaria practiced until he believed he mastered the technique only to find out the casinos had changed the rules as you could no longer place a bet down on the last four revolutions. (The same thing happened to single deck blackjack - they shuffle up about...

DVD includes topics such as Odds, Percentages, Ball controlling, Chip converting, Procedures and protection. 2008

No matter where his basketball travels took him during his 31 seasons in NCAA Division I college basketball, controversy was never far behind Jerry Tarkanian. The legendary former coach of the UNLV Runnin' Rebels proved himself to be one of the greatest coaches in the game's history, amassing an incredible overall record of 778-202, more wins than all but a handful of other coaches. He also had 29  20-win seasons, second all-time only to fellow legend Dean Smith of North Carolina,...

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...

Challenge your brain! You say there's nothing you like more than mental anguish and frustration? Welcome to the world of 'Sadistic Sudoku', where every puzzle is guaranteed to twist your brain into knots. These are not the puzzles you'll find in your daily newspaper, and you won't come across any easy ones here. Snyder has hand-created 200 brutally awesome sudoku for you - none are computer generated. All puzzles can be solved using logic, but each one is designed to sizzle your brain, frazzle...

Was $65.00 Now $50.00! A one-of-a-kind item, this coffee-table book contains 139 fine reproductions of great works of art that incorporate gambling in their theme. The photos include a black-figure painting that dates back to 500 B.C., dozens of card players, several works by Leroy Neiman, Picasso, Thomas Hart Benton and other artists. A beautifully rendered documentation of the evolution of gambling. 231 Pgs. 2000 Hardcover ...

Subtitled A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal this is the story of 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson and his teammates purportedly conspiring with gamblers to throw the World Series--a story that has lingered for more than eighty years. With baseball so closely linked to American values and ideals, the Black Sox Scandal of 1919 disenchanted baseball fans, changed the way Americans felt about the national pastime, and fostered changes in the game. Here author Nathan is less concerned with...

155 of Scarne's professional card tricks, none of which require sleight of hand dexterity, are presented in detail. Instructions and diagrams include Blackstone's Card Trick Without Cards, Houdini's Card on the Ceiling, Carlyle's Piano Card Trick, Milton Berle's Quickie Card Deal, Scarne's own Drunken Poker Deal, Knockout Card Trick, and more. 308 pgs, paperback, 2003

You can pick the horses pretty good, but you can't make any money at the track? You've got money to wager, but you have trouble with predicting race outcomes? You enjoy the challenge and sport of harness horse racing, and you'd like to enhance that enjoyment with some real profit? This is the book for you! SCORE BIG AT THE HARNESS TRACK! is the first book to instruct you in the two equally essential skills of both handicapping and wagering. Either one is worthless without the other! Both...