Books/Software

A small plastic card you can use to study basic strategy for blackjack or take to the table to help you make playing decisions.

Basic strategy card for American style roulette with single zero and double zero. Credit card size for carrying with you.

This card is meant to give you a start on learning how to play 7-Stud. However, only experience in actual play and additional study can make you an actual player.

Information includes deciding what type of slots to play, where to play, and money management. Credit card size, laminated.

Basic strategy for video poker jacks or better non-progressive.

Fifteen chapters outline the rules of play, players options, payout schedules, overall house odds, plus the best winning strategies. In Caribbean stud, the object of the game is to have an original poker hand without drawing cards to beat the dealer. Let it Ride is essentially a five-card stud poker game with high tournament bonus payments. These games are especially popular because they are easy to play, and offer you the familiarity of table games with the possibilities of million-dollar...

Nine informational chapters and 22 diagrams show beginning players how to play and win at chess in one quick and easy reading. Youll learn the moves of the pieces, the rules and principles of play, the standard openings, as well as chess notation. Also introduces the basic concepts and strategies of middle and endgame play. 64 pgs, paperback, 2002

Fifteen chapters outline the house odds, the history of keno, the best playing strategies, and taxes on keno winnings. Youll learn how to make all the bets including straight, split, way, combination, king and special tickets, and how best to use them in a coordinated winning strategy. Charts with bets, payoffs and strategies. 60 pgs, paperback, 1995

A quick introduction to both the American (single and double zero) and European (single zero) version of the game. It covers the dealer's responsibilities, chip denominations, table layout, with a description of all possible bets. 58 pgs, paperback, 1993

A handy primer for beginners seeking a fast, economical introduction to casino games. There's some good basic material for the gin, poker, horse and sports enthusiast. 64 pages, paperbound. 1994.

This great classic subtitled "A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty One" has sold a over one million copies since the 1960's when it was originally published. Thorp is considered the Father of Modern Blackjack Play. His theories helped develop a count system that revolutionized the way players and casinos look at the game. An absolute must-have for anyone who intends to play blackjack. All current forms of beating blackjack stem from this single work. Includes perforated cards and is a new...

Subtitled " The Biggest Mistakes Made by Low-Stakes, Live-Action No-Limit Hold'em Players", “Beat the Donks” is a book about the lowest stakes No-Limit Hold’em cash games played in Las Vegas. These games are filled with “Donks” that are easy to beat as long as you can recognize and exploit their mistakes. This book defines a Donk as an experienced player who makes the same mistakes over and over again, unwilling to adapt. This stubbornness makes the Donk very predictable and, therefore, easy...

An easy-to-read book about how to find and beat the best machines, and earn points, free rooms and meals, and cash back from slots clubs. Includes the basics of play, how to find the machines and casinos with the most frequent and largest payoffs, types of machines, the history of slots, and advice on how to avoid losing machines. 256 pgs, paperback, 2003

Unite knows claiming horses. He knows that they don't conform to the usual tenets of classical handicapping. To prove it, he immediately points to a statistic that claiming races for three-year-olds and four-year-olds are won only  by the favorite far less than the usual 33 percent.  That means favorites in these race aren't just vulnerable - they're usually downright false. You'll learn how to combine the time-honored principles of speed, class and form in such a way that will...

Subtitled "From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas - Only in America". In Being Oscar, one of America’s most celebrated criminal defense attorneys recounts the stories and cases of his epic life. The Mafia’s go-to defender, he has tried an estimated 300 criminal cases, and won most of them. His roster of clients reads like a history of organized crime: Meyer Lansky, Nicky Scarfo and “Lefty” Rosenthal, as well as Mike Tyson and boxing promoter Don King, along with a midget, a dentist and a...

Subtitled How To Take Advantage of Sloppy Dealers. With easily mastered card-counting techniques, Scoblete, author of numerous books on casino games, has tried to assemble the best of the working theories on how to play blackjack to its greatest advantage. He also delves into exotic forms of the game like Double Exposure; red/black, over/under; and goes into team play and guerilla tactics. 283 pgs, paperback, 1996

Subtitled 'Contemporary Treatment Strategies for Gambling Disorders', the authors chronicle the tales of people like a pharmacist who tried to supplement her income with prostitution and theft to get money for gambling; Nate, a 16-year-old student who shoplifted computers and other electronic high-ticket items to support his habit; and Joe, a retired carpenter who lives in a shelter after selling his house and forging his son's name to get money to gamble with. Woven into the tales is a look...

Subtitled 'A Complete Study of and Exercise in Making Profits at Pick 3's and Trifectas', this includes a workable betting system and advice on how to set your mind to win. These are among the most popular wagers at the track today, and this book helps get a 'handle' on how to approach them logically. 87 Pages Paperbound 1995

Improve your results without changing your handicapping one bit. The power to turn your favorite pastime into a handsome-paying hobby or even a profession is already in your grasp. You just don't know it. And the reason you don't know it is that you're too busy trying to tinker with your handicapping without paying even the scarcest attention to your betting strategy and money management. How many times have you heard it said or even said it yourself: "I'd do a lot better if I only knew...

The long-awaited study on how to adjust handicapping skills to the new surfaces, this book covers questions about the impact of the new surface (designed to cut down on the number of injured horses) that have yet to be answered. Finley believes the surface is here to stay. In a dozen chapters, he discusses track bias, which sires are likely to have offspring that will benefit, the switch from dirt to synthetic and vice versa, exactly what polypropylene is and what is the future of the...

Lee's classic describes the importance of comparing opposing teams and analyzing statistical trends, including freak occurrences. Covers strategies for beginning baseball handicappers and more experienced bettors. How to bet teams on a streak, peaking teams, the effect of home stands, betting on doubleheaders and the effect of a layoff on starting pitchers. Among the first books to concentrate on handicapping baseball, this classic has stood the test of time with information that can be...

Wiese provides the ultimate poker book that gives you an unparalleled edge at the poker table. After the huge success of "Eat Professional Poker Players Alive!', he decided to write this book that focuses strictly on No-Limit Cash Games. If you like to build up your chip stacks considerably, destroy the other players at the No-Limit Cash Games, then this is the book for you. 239 Pgs. 2011

This Beyer classic shows how to make speed the focal point of an effective strategy for racetrack betting. It explains how to relate the numbers to other important factors such as pace and track bias and reveals optimal uses of the figures based on computer analysis of more than 10,000 races performed by the Daily Racing Form exclusively for this book. 238 Pgs.1993Table of ContentsThe Value of Speed FiguresProbabilities and PatternsHow Was the Figure Earned?How Will He Run Today?The...

Focuses on Italian-Americans who made major contributions to the development of Las Vegas from its earliest days to the present. Investors, builders, developers, musicians, contractors, lounge performers, writers and editors are all here. Balboni interviewed more than 200 people to capture the facts, the flavor, the struggles and the achievements they proudly remember. Includes 20 pgs. of footnotes, references and a bibliography, making it a vital tool for researchers. 168 Pgs.1996 ...

'Bi-Count Blackjack' is for serious blackjack players. It's a brand new system of card-counting that lets the player track 36 cards from a deck with ease while telling the player how best to play out each hand. Multiple deck play will actually add to the players advantage. It is superior to plus/minus card-counting systems with running counts that are virtually impossible to follow and with betting patterns that give you away as a counter as well. It provides a wealth of...

A modern poker classic (out of print for a while) that tells the tale of a year in the life of biographer Holden, who took off to experience the life of a professional poker player. He recounts his days and nights in poker rooms in Las Vegas, Malta, Morocco, and at sea. Holden rubbed elbows with the greats of the game, sharpened his skills and aimed for the ultimate in pokerdom, the World Series of Poker championship. 384 pgs, paperback, 2002

From the moment he wins $10,000 in a tourney pitting journalists against three world champs, Holden hits a hot streak, spiriting readers to an instructional camp in Vienna and the World Cup of Poker in Spain before returning to Las Vegas to compete with 8,772 other hopefuls in a WSOP "crapshoot." With Congress restricting Americans' ability to play poker for money online, the semipro invasion might have peaked, but Holden still has a gift for finding the romance in holdem. 291 Pgs. 2008

Since he first began publishing his Baseball Abstracts in the 1980s, Bill James has constantly challenged conventional wisdom by asking simple questions like, "Is that really true?" or "What if we looked at the question this way?" He has sparked a virtual revolution in the way the game of baseball is understood and played, from how players are evaluated or positioned to whether or not they should attempt to bunt or steal a base. In Solid Fool s Gold James continues his...

This is the fundamental explanation of Bingo.

Meadow may be a horse-racing expert (He publishes a newsletter, has written several books, and has cashed a lot of big tickets), but he’s also a polished blackjack player. When he decided to pack up his car with suitcase, a word processor, and a mere $8,000 to play blackjack in every casino in the state of Nevada, he was certain of one thing - he had no idea what he’d find. Leaving behind his business, his fiancée, and his son, he embarks on a journey into the soul of Nevada and of Barry...

Subtitled 'How to Play Like a Pro... Part-Time'. From the first turn of the card to getting out of a foreign country with a suitcase full of cash, Blackjack Blueprint is the most comprehensive book ever written on learning to play blackjack for profit. This book covers everything from basic strategy to counting cards, from maximizing potential going solo to playing on a blackjack team. Casino comps, tournaments, location play, shuffle tracking, playing in disguise, outwitting the eye in the...

This manual discusses 34 key areas of responsibility for the beginning dealer including customer courtesy, dress and personal appearances, general conduct, opening the table and counting the bankroll, the shuffle and dealing, making change, cheque cutting, game protection, minimum and maximum bets, hitting the dealer's hand, and peeking at aces. 64 Pages Paperbound 1993

Card expert Malmuth analyzes Card Domination, Theoretical Concepts, Blackjack Biases, back counting, doubling down on aces, tournament strategy, cheating tip-offs, money management fallacies, crowded vs. empty casinos, and heads-up play. Index 242 Pgs. 2000

By the mastermind behind the MIT blackjack teams, this program contains detailed instructions on playing the most advanced games employed by Semyon's Amphibian Investments MIT blackjack team to get a much bigger edge on the casinos than even other blackjack teams. Shuffle Tracking, Key Card sequencing, and Cut Card placement techniques. Based on actual seminar footage. For advanced players.

Originally titled Techniques of Casino Games: Blackjack, this training tool for blackjack dealers explains rules and procedures, equipment, cheques, handling cards, card delivery, take and pay procedure. In the advanced chapters, the authors teach payoff methods, insurance, doubling down, splitting pairs, and surrender. A key section focuses on protection, including cheating from the inside or the outside. 117 pgs, paperback, 1993