Books/Software

Today's new set of players do not rely on traditional wisdom,they have turned the game of poker into one that can be won by applying the tools of computer science and mathematics to their hands. This new approach relies on quantitative analysis and mathematics. This book strives to take this seemingly difficult task and make it easy and understandable for players with less mathematic knowledge or skill. 382 Pgs. 2006

Fourteen chapters by noted writers, researchers and scholars focus on people who were/are instrumental in the explosive growth of Nevada. The history of gaming in the state is traced by looking at the people who had the vision to see a tiny railroad town in the middle of a desert as a resort destination. Includes Maude Frazier, educator and lawmaker; Moe Dalitz; controversial founder of the modern Las Vegas; James McMillan, who championed the drive for equality; William F. Harrah; Hank...

Statistics have become the method for talking baseball. To help make the game more understandable, Guzzo helps define the stats, looks at the historical breakdown of the use of stats, keeping score during the game, how to read the box score, real-life applications for the stats you hear on the radio or on TV, fantasy/simulation baseball games, and the future of statistics in baseball. 167 Pgs. 2007

Contains more than 600 illustrations to complement hundreds of sleights and tricks to perform with coins. 544 Pgs. 1998 hardcover

The advent of gaming on Indian reservations has created a new kind of tribal politics over the past three decades. Now armed with often substantial financial resources, Indigenous peoples have adjusted their political strategies from a focus on the judicial system and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to one that directly lobbies state and federal governments and non-Indigenous voters. These tactics allow tribes to play an influential role in shaping state and national policies that affect...

Subtitled 'Exploiting Regulars". Self-made poker millionaires Tri "SlowHabit" Nguyen and Tom "kingsofcards" Marchese will show you how to crush the regulars at your table with The NL Workbook. They will teach you advanced no-limit strategies that they used to win million of dollars from poker. Whether it is Heads-Up, Short-Handed, or Full-Ring, The NL Workbook has helped many professional poker players improve their winrate and swollen their bankrolls. Many readers can attest to this fact.You...

Originally published in 1993, this indispensable guide contained virtually everything you would want to know about legal prostitution in Nevada - and now there is even more in the revised and updated version. There are descriptions of legalized houses in every area of Nevada (where it is legal). The Official Guide to the Best Cat Houses in Nevada is the definitive guide to legal prostitution in Nevada, with brothel names, phone numbers and maps to the various legal brothels in Nevada, complete...

Master card throwing, spinning cards on your fingers, switching cards and a huge variety of techniques with those pocket cards you'll muck or need to turn over in Texas Hold'em, Blackjack, etc. Also, a fantastic collection of stunts for any card magician. You will learn the best 40 card techniques to ever hit the table! Top Turnover...Under Turnover...Deck Turnover...Barndoors...Why Flip...Snap Change...Pocket Turn...Explosion...Single Hand Whirl...Two Hand Whirl...Air Whirl...Psych...

World class magician and poker player Rich Ferguson teaches a wide range of card techniques that includes utility moves, flashy stunts such as card spinning and throwing, card switches and changes, visual methods to present chosen cards, and ways to deal cards using only one hand. These 40 stunts were designed with poker players in mind. 2005

Learn how to show off, toss, spin, shuffle, bounce, play and impress with your poker chips! This 'Chip Tricks' DVD comes with over 70 tricks! Shuffle... Pullover... Push Down Shuffle ...Short Shuffle ...Un-shuffle ...Butterfly ...Fat Butterfly ...Roll Down ...Butterfly Balance ...Butterfly Collapse ...Rebound Stack ...Peacock ...Double Butterfly ...S-Fan ...Galaxy ...Vertical Chip Roll ...Anti-Gravity ...Muscle Pass ...Finger Catch ...Ricochet ...Reverse Twirl ...Twirl ...Two Chip...

With this DVD as your guide, you will master many of the most visual and practical card flourishes possible. Step by step instruction from multiple angles makes learning fun and easy. Instant access to each technique using interactive menu. 2005

This DVD explains in detail 50 of the hottest stunts and tricks you have seen on television or at a poker game. 22 shuffling skills and 28 cutting skills. Instant access with each trick using the interactive menu. 2005

This rule book is the essential guide to the professional, scholastic, and internet rules of chess. Written in plain English for practical use, you’ll learn everything you need to know about tournaments, rating systems, etiquette for in-person and online play, and chess notation. Special sections for students and parents answer all the frequently asked questions about competitive play. These are the rules that apply to every tournament form of chess, from scholastic competitions to world...

Las Vegas was largely shaped by a handful of colorful and astute casino operators who turned a dusty desert town into the gaudy, booming holiday mecca that it is today. The essays in this book introduce us to these players. We discover how early leaders like Cliff Jones, Moe Dalitz and Benny Binion first grasped Las Vegas’s potential as a center for high-stakes gambling, and we read of mobster Bugsy Siegel’s efforts to bring to reality another man’s dream of a glamorous...

While this wasn't written as a book for poker players, it takes the concept of reading tells to another level and from another point of view. An expert in the field of nonverbal communication explains how to interpret gestures and expressions and understand the nonverbal messages others are sending, with explanations of specific gestures, facial cues, body positions, and body movements. 334 Pgs. 2009

Subtitled "How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way To a Fortune On Wall Street." Excerpted in The New Yorker and hailed by the business press, The Predictors is destined to become a classic of its generation--an antic, subversive odyssey into a universe defined by the mystical convergence of physics and finance. How could a couple of rumpled physicists in sandals and Eat-the-Rich T-shirts, piling computers into an adobe house in Santa Fe, hope to take on the...

This book was written by a confessed cheat who says he wrote it for everyone who has been cheated at one time or another and for those who wish not to be cheated. Murphy claims 40 years experience in backroom, bar room, street and organized gambling. Chapters cover: How Casinos are Operated; How to Cheat with Cards, Slot Machines, Craps, Carnival Games, plus street cons and staying ahead of the IRS. 143 Pgs. 1997

Dealing poker is one of those occupations that looks easy when it is performed by a top-quality employee, and with effort, you or your staff can achieve this status. This text should help build and reinforce the skills necessary to perform the job well and to help establish a standard throughout the industry. 288 Pgs. 2009

Craig captures the excitement of the big game, featuring the real-life duel between the Professor (Howard Lederer), the Banker (millionaire Texan Andy Beal), and the Suicide King (the king of hearts, which holds a broad sword) in his book about poker and people, what makes players tick, what draws them to the cutting edge of the game, who the best are, how and why they play. Packed with history and biographical notes on some of the biggest names in the poker business, including their highs and...

Schoonmaker describes the role of personality factors, explaining why people play the way they do and how to adjust your strategies against them. The book is twofold: how to identify the psychological makeup of your opponents and take advantage of them, and identify your own psychological drawbacks, with ways to modify them. 329 Pgs. 2000

Handcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar. Since his death eighty years ago, Harry Houdini's life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and best-selling writer Larry Sloman team up to find the man behind the myth. Drawing from millions of pages of research, they describe in vivid detail the passions that drove Houdini to perform ever-more-dangerous feats, his secret life as a spy, and a...

Kneeland gives techniques and methods for finding the best-paying machines and making winning progressive strategies. Includes a history of pro gambling with a spotlight on video poker and slot teams in Las Vegas. Gives information and formulas for calculating true machine return (including meter-rise) using the same mathematics the teams used back in the day. 291 Pgs. 2010

World-famous illusionist, master deluder, showman: Harry Houdini was one of the most legendary figures of the modern stage, and probably the most legendary and misunderstood magician of all time. Exposing his closely kept professional secrets, and revealing in general terms the whole art of stage magic, this book is now considered the classic study of Houdini's strange deceptions. A professional magician and friend of Houdini, Cannell rationally explains how the master escaped bank vaults,...

Use poker strategy to become a better decision maker In high-stakes poker, you need patience and aggression ��_��_��_ qualities that translate to the world of business. In The Shark and the Fish, Charley Swayne applies winning poker strategies to decision-making and leadership. Learn how to: ��_Ѣ avoid losing control and going on tilt, ��_Ѣ turn losses into lessons, ��_Ѣ perfect the art of negotiating a deal, ��_Ѣ understand the stakes and your financial limitations, ��_Ѣ evaluate your...

Subtitled "Using Data and Brains to Win at the Racetrack". Winning at the racetrack, however you define it, is neither easy nor a sure thing. But before you can think about winning, you need to learn which handicapping strategies are valuable, and which ones aren't. The Skeptical Handicapper examines both popular and little-known angles to see what really works at the pari-mutuel windows. Author Barry Meadow, who wrote Money Secrets at the Racetrack, became an authority on the subject not...

The casino floors are jammed with new and different kinds of slot machines. In The Slot Expert��_��s Guide to Playing Slots, Robison tells you what they are, how they work, and how you should play them. Formerly sold in bulky report format, this new pocket-sized book can be carried along easily to be used as a reference in the casinos. Contains graphics of slot and video poker pay schedules you��_��ll encounter, along with representative return percentages.Learn how to:Tell the difference...

Subtitled " Data Mining Statistics Applied to Small Stakes No Limit Hold'em". “The Statistics of Poker” analyzes two million hand histories to identify the most profitable online No Limit Hold'em poker strategies. These “optimal” strategies are verified for stakes between NL10 ($0.05/$0.10) and NL200 ($1.00/$2.00) full ring online games. Despite the title, this book is not really a mathematics book, though it is certainly statistical behind the curtain. It assumes that the reader is already...

Parisian detective Villiod wrote this French classic exposing how clever crooks and con artists at the turn of the century circumvented the anti-gambling laws and operated clubs and casinos legally under the "private club" charter ruse. The game was baccarat en banque, and all the mechanics' moves as well as card-stacking techniques are outlined. 221 Pgs. 1976

Explains 26 possibilities and variations of palming while the deck is on the table. Includes 57 illustrations. 38 pgs, paperback, 1957

Using a question-answer, lecture format, the author covers all major sports and explores the components of winning sports betting, including, getting value, power analysis (how to determine one team is more powerful than another and by how much). The line, action moves, quality of opposition, schedule handicapping, middling and money management. Answers many questions for both beginners and seasoned wiseguys. 112 pgs, paperback, 1997

For the serious player who can handle college-level math, Griffins classic includes definition and analysis of basic strategy, approximating bet and strategy variation, single parameter counting systems, multi-parameter counting systems, the importance of grouping cards, insurance, distribution of probability, likely consequences of errors in counting systems, and betting gain in two-four decks. This is one of the most important books on blackjack with charts, tables and formulae for almost...

In one of the top general poker books of all time, Sklansky discusses theories and concepts applicable to almost every variation of poker, including 5-card draw high, 7-stud, holdem, lowball draw, and razz. Covers deception, bluffing, raising, slow-play, position, psychology, head-up play, game theory, and implied odds. 242 Pgs. 1994

The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky has long been recognized as the foundational book for all of poker no matter what the game, and at the time of this writing is still the best selling book in poker. But that book, while applicable to many aspects of no limit and pot limit poker was originally written mainly with limit games in mind. Now, the most popular form of poker is no-limit hold em. As a result, David felt it was time to write a new book that would methodically address each of the...

Back in print is this 1981 classic for thoroughbred fans who look for patterns in odds on the toteboard. Gaines identifies what he calls 'whaps,' or unusual odds changes and tells you how to spot them. Illustrated with charts and examples, the book shows how to understand and apply tote board fluctuation analysis. He points out how to avoid false favorites, tells when it's okay to follow a trend and how to find that key horse for exotics betting. 162 Pgs. 2007

Now back in stock! New and improved. Subtitled 'The First and Only System That Shows Players How to Win at Video Keno, Backed Up With Winning Examples and Mathematical Analysis'.  Covers video keno games such as Four Card Keno, Multi-Card Keno, Cleopatra, and Cave Man Keno. Will teach about video keno vs. video poker, the truth about 'hold' percentages, playing on a limited budget and finding the best payout tables. 86 Pgs. Spiralbound 2013

Subtitled "600 Questions For the Super-Fan". Become a football trivia expert with these tough questions! The Ultimate Football Trivia Book tests and expands your knowledge on the sport of football—covering players’ careers from Draft Day to the rookie season, the Pro Bowl, and beyond! In this collection of six hundred questions, seasoned football writer Chris Price tests your level of expertise on all things football. Some of the many questions that Price poses include: Who was the last player...