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Everything You Need to Know About Gambling and Taxes. The complete tax implications of winning and losing at gambling are pretty much a mystery to accountants, gamblers, and even the Internal Revenue Service itself. The IRS offers surprisingly few details to guide gamblers through the tax maze. Furthermore, what the IRS does say is often general, vague, open to individual interpretation, and contradictory; IRS publications and personnel often leave you with more questions than answers. Tax...

Subtitled 'The Rise and Fall of Bob Stupak and Las Vegas' Stratosphere Tower', this book focuses on one of the more controversial people in the gaming industry, the self-proclaimed Polish Maverick who rose from humble origins as the son of a Pittsburgh boss gambler to head one of the largest privately-owned casinos in Las Vegas. Stupak parlayed a small slot joint into a $100-million-a-year operation by manipulating the media with outrageous stunts and promotions. Newspaper columnist Smith...

If you've watched the Ultimate Blackjack Tour on cable TV, you know Hollywood Dave, who now takes his celebrity to a new level by penning, as the subtitle 'An Uncensored Guide to Doing it Like A Pro', claims, or in other words, a hip, irreverent, totally open book about the game, the player and his experiences. Eleven chapters cover the Stardust, Thinking Like a Pro, Keeping it on the Down Low, Celebrity Blackjack, Las Vegas Trip Report, Intro to Tournaments, and The Death of a Card Counter....

Dancer has been in Las Vegas over a decade. His book should provide beginners, serious players, dedicated players, tournament players and anyone even thinking of playing these addictive, sometimes lucrative machines with more angles, strategies, and stories about those who win or lose (and why) than any book published in recent years. 265 Pgs. 2002   Table of Contents Part 1: The Ins and Outs of Video Poker The Easy Part of Video Poker The Hard Part of Video Poker How Good am I? How Much...

This one-of-a kind guide is devoted to southern Nevada's recreational wonderland. It details 20 hikes on the slopes of Mt. Charleston, the highest mountain in southern Nevada and only a 60-minute drive from the Las Vegas Strip. It also describes 40 trails, paths, and routes in BLM's showcase Red Rock Canyon Recreation Area, less than half an hour from Glitter Gulch. 271 Pgs. 1999

Originally published in hardcover in 1998, this is an account of life in a brothel written by a woman in charge of one of the premier Nevada cat houses. 'I metaphorically fling open the doors of Sheri's Brothel in southern Nevada and invite the public in to witness incidents that occur daily', she states. The stories related here are strange, funny, sad, fascinating, disturbing and sometimes grim. I use the language of the prostitutes and their clients. I tell it like it is with no attempt to...

Einiger is a tournament 21 champion who won the 2005 World Series of Blackjack and numerous other blackjack competitions. In this second edition, he introduces you to tournaments, explaining how to find them, evaluate their profit potential, and navigate the registration process with a step-by-step explanation of the techniques hes developed over 15 years of successful play. A new format on the tournament scene necessitated updating this book. Also includes a new chapter that explains the...

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...

Video Poker for the Intelligent Beginner is a how-to-win blueprint for players seeking the fast track to the upper levels of this beatable game. First, you'll master the techniques for finding and identifying the highest-returning games. Then you'll learn how to generate, understand, and implement the computer-perfect strategies that yield the ultimate goal: monetary profit! In addition,Video Poker for the Intelligent Beginner imparts Dancer's professional insight relative to the game's many...

Vancura offers an unbalanced system, relates an outstanding history of card counting, and emphasizes the card counter's adversarial struggle with the casino. His K-O system uses an unbalanced count, (cards 2 through 7 are counted as plus 1 and tens and aces as minus 1 with no number count for 8s and 9s). Six major chapters cover strategy, card counting, the K-O system, and a comparison of systems, including Red Seven, UZ2, Hi-Opt 1, High-Low, and Omega 2. An excellent resource for any level...

Smith has written more than 2,000 columns on all manner of subjects pertaining to Las Vegas and the Boulevard, known around the world as The Strip. In this collection, previously published individually in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Smith takes us to the heart of the city - Its people: winners, losers, lovers, haters, mobsters, and cops who populate the city beneath its neon. 315 Pgs. 1998

From the 1970s through the mid-1980s, the Chicago Outfit dominated organized crime in Las Vegas. Unreported revenue, known as the "skim," from Outfit-Controlled casinos made its way out of Vegas by the bagful, ending up in the coffers of the Windy City crime bosses and their confederates around the Midwest. To ensure the smooth flow of cash, the gangsters installed a front man with no criminal background, Allen R. Glick, as the casino owner of record, Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal as the real boss...