Books/Software

The amazing story of Las Vegas’s inaugural season of hockey! Subtitled "How a First Year Expansion Team Healed Las Vegas and Shocked the Hockey World". William Foley took a big risk when he and his partners paid $500 million to the National Hockey League for a Las Vegas expansion team. Would the locals support it? Could it win games? Would it earn back the investment? It turned out that Vegas was the perfect place for such a gamble, and Vegas Golden Knights delves deeply into the VGK’s brief,...

Subtitled "A Family Man Takes On the Poker Pros". Can a former semi-pro win against the best poker players in the world? In 2006, Johnny’s pie-in-the-sky dreams of becoming world champion were dashed when his kings ran into aces in the World Series of Poker Main Event. But lady luck was with him when he met Amy, the woman of his dreams, who soon became his wife. Like many players, he drifted away from the game after Congress passed a law later that year that cut off funds to online poker and...

"Vegas Rewards is The #1 MUST Read Before You Go To Las Vegas or Any Casino!" Learn The Top 5 Secrets That Get You Free or Discount Rooms, Food and Shows in Las Vegas, and All Over The World At Hotels and Casinos. Gambling For Over 37 Years Worldwide, J. T. Bird Reveals How He Has Gotten More Than $326,000 Of Comps From Dozens Of Casinos, and... How You Can Too.Inside this step by step strategy guide you'll learn: Why It's Crucial To Get a Player's Card at Every Casino You Want Comps From....

Jensen, the 'Doctor of Gambling', hopes his information will fix your ills and show you how to beat the slot and video poker machines. Jensen shows how to find video poker games that give you an actual winning edge over the casinos (along with exact percentages and the best strategies) - plus 10 secrets of beating the slots and winning jackpots. 256 pages, paperbound, March 2003. ...

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...

This is a complete and easy-to-use video poker trainer that uses games that are identical to casino games. The software can be used to analyze your slot club points, to calculate bankroll requirement, and analyze the newer multi-hand games such as Super Times Pay, Hundred Play, and Multi-Strike Poker. It lets you print out optimum strategy card(s) to take to the casino, and also includes sophisticated training features like slot club analyzers and bankroll calculators, and even analyzes...

The ultimate strategy generator for video poker players who want the precise strategies for any game on paper. This is not a playable gameit is a program that comes with about a dozen built-in pay schedules that you can study and print (in color) to take to the casino with you. In addition, you can generate your own pay table based on any game you can find in your favorite casino, run the tests, and check the strategy (basic or advanced) to see if the game is worth playing. There are just four...

Playing craps professionally requires you to avoid distractions, maintain mental discipline, adhere to precise rules and techniques, and to control your emotions. The greatest reward as a professional player is the freedom to work your own hours and to be your own boss. Playing craps as a business avoids typical problems and/or costs. For example, it requires no accountants, bookkeepers or attorneys to operate. You will have no collection problems with receivables, no inventory, no...

Golf and gambling go together like caddies and bags. To prove it, Wade has compiled the greatest true anecdotes and stories about gambling on golf, featuring yarns from today's PGA tour to tales about celebrity money matches to classic hustling stories from the game's glory days. Ever hear about the time Babe Ruth played Ty Cobb in a 54-hole, three-state match? Or the time JFK resorted to presidential persuasion to win a golf bet? Filled with tales about everyone from Ben Hogan to Jack...

There are trivia books and there are unusual trivia books. This is one of the latter, though it covers a not-so-unusual topic. According to the back cover, this is for the major league couch potato, the life-long season ticket holder or the person teaching the game to a beginner. According to popular readership, it's one of the best and most interesting books about pitching, hitting, running, fielding, and other activities on the baseball field. It handles practical information and unique...

is powerful book reveals insider secrets professionals use to beat the casino. These are the very same strategies and inside tips that casinos don't want players to know. John Gollehon reveals the six secrets of winning, the five most common mistakes made by gamblers, the casino's four most vulnerable games, and the three traits that separate professional players from the average loser. This is a targeted collection of sage advice that average gamblers, the losers the casinos feast...

The author asks: What is it about Las Vegas that captivates us? Is it how the skim worked at the Stardust and how millions of dollars walked out the door uncounted? Or what really happened when Frank Sinatra threw a chair at the casino boss of the Sands? Did you ever hear the story about how some very bad Vegas guys rigged the gin rummy games at the Friars Club and took a bunch of famous people to the cleaners? Howard Hughes had some weird notions about the Silver Slipper and put his money...

Are You Winning at Craps?  If you are looking for a consistent method of walking away from the craps table a winner, your complete guide to succeeding at the craps table is here! Wholly Craps! by David Medansky, a word class authority on the game and trusted author, serves as a teaching manual that delivers the course material you need to achieve your goals in craps. This instructional book contains the essential information on the techniques as well as addressing the mental...

Meet Alex and Bobbie, who both like to play poker. Alex is a professional poker player who plays for a living and is a solid long-term winner. Bobbie is a recreational player who plays a decent enough game but mainly wants to have a good time. If you play poker regularly you will meet thousands of players like Bobbie in your games and very few like Alex. Of course one would expect that, in the long run, Alex will perform better than Bobbie. But have you ever wondered EXACTLY what it is that...

Subtitled 'The 101 Most Asked Questions about Las Vegas and Casino Gambling', this will help the beginner or someone new to the industry, whether your a dealer or in mid-management, a player or an observer, understand some of the important concepts and strategies of the industry. For example: How Do They Mark Playing Cards?, How Do Dealers Know Which Bets Belong To Whom on A Crap Table?, How Do They 'Load' Dice?, How Do They Cheat in Roulette?, Can Slot Machines Be Set Against You?, and What...

If you can't get enough of these addictive, seductive puzzles, then the book for you has finally arrived. So prepare to dive into sudoku: With one thousand and one puzzles, you'll always be satisfied! And with it's fun, portable square trim, you'll be able to solve sudoku wherever you go. Features: 1001 top-quality sudoku from easy to hard. Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz. Big grids with lots of space for easy solving. 560 Pgs. 2008

The author, concentrating on the NFL, gives step-by-step in-depth analyses unseen in any gambling book.  Half points, futures, parlays, synthetics, round robins, hedging, middles, the secret that no teaser tout will tell you, the best teaser to play (6,6-1/2 or 7), the stat that determines the pointspread outcome (and how to use it to your advantage), and how to track a sport service live - all designed to pad your wallet.  With equal parts of insight, logic and experience, Peszynski...

Multi-Play games!!! A Triple-Play, 4, 5 and 10 line multi-play option that can be played with all of the video poker games!!!!Great sounds Use the sounds that come in WinPoker or choose an existing WAV on your hard drive or from the WEB and use it!Great graphics Choose any of the 10 card backs that come in WinPoker or choose an existing bitmap on your hard drive or from the WEB and use it!23 video game variations - Aces and Eights, All American, Bonus Poker, Bonus Poker Deluxe, Double Bonus,...

After 22-year-old Jimmy Winkfield won his second consecutive Kentucky Derby in 1902, black jockeys were banned from American racing. Sick at heart, Winkfield began an odyssey that historian Ed Hotaling brings to life in this captivating biography. Finding success in Europe, Wink was a fabulously wealthy member of the Russian aristocracy until the Bolsheviks overthrew the czar in 1917. Leaving Moscow for Odessa with his Russian wife, Winkfield and others continued to race, and then, with the...

Sin City. Bright lights, high stakes, and no sleep. Home to some of the world's grandest, flashiest, and most lucrative casino resorts, Las Vegas, with its multitude of attractions, draws some forty million tourists from around the world every year. But Vegas hasn't always been booming at the level it is today. This newest influx is largely a result of three competing business moguls. Meet Kirk Kerkorian, Steve Wynn, and Dr. Gary Loveman, men who couldn't be more different from one another,...

There's no doubt video poker as a casino game has taken the nation by storm. To help in the hunt for the allusive royal flush, Bob Dancer has done a massive revision of his initial book, which is now out of print. This book, co-authored with Liam Daily, contains about 30 percent new material, and although the price is now $18.50, his explanations of how to play 8/5, 9/5, 8/5/35 and 8/5 bonus machines and his explanations of the similarities and differences between flush 6 and flush 5...

The authors claim that pickem poker is much easier to play at the 100% level than many other video poker games. However, unique features of the strategy must be mastered to attain that figure. Because of the game's makeup, a player can progress from beginner level to computer perfect without going through any intermediate steps. Made only by Bally Gaming, the game shows you only four cards. You must hold the two cards on the left, but you can choose to keep or discard one of the two cards on...

A good book for the beginner and somewhat experienced player, introducing you to the fundamentals which include table layout and personnel and the various bets. A second section discusses house advantage, various chances of winning with a pass line bet, place betting versus pass line and come betting, A final section focuses on money management. Entertaining, includes stories about other craps shooters' experiences at the tables. A good one-volume guide to the game. 138 Pgs. Paperbound 1993

Both Caribbean Stud and Let It Ride have become so popular that nearly every casino in the country now includes at least one table in the pit for each of the games. Like other casino games, these two should be played correctly, according to the rules and to the house edge. Cardoza's book covers both these areas. First, the rules of each game are explained in easy-to-follow sections, then, the strategies, along with a third section devoted to advice on money management. Cardoza spells out the...

A chess player's opening sets the tone for the entire game, creating the advantages or disadvantages that lead to victory or defeat. In this step-by-step guide, former U.S. speed chess champion Bill Robertie reveals more than 25 openings that will help beginning and intermediate players seize the early advantage.144 pages, paperbound, 2002.

Newly formatted and updated, the 14 chapters illustrate the explanations and thinking behind every tactical concept. Learn to use pins, single and double forks, double attacks, skewers, discovered and double checks, multiple threats and other crushing tactics to gain an immediate edge. Each concept is fully explained in easy-to-understand language with diagrams, examples and game situations so you understand the thinking and game plan behind every moves. A valuable guide for beginning and...

The work of a player whose interest in gambling began when he was just a kid living in Provo Utah almost 50 years ago. The books four major sections begin with Universal Principles. Others include basic pass line strategies, Over Come strategy, and casino cover strategy. Dotted with colored charts, diagrams and short quizzes to ensure that you understand the points he makes. 97 pgs, paperback, 2002

Two different exotic bets, popular at the greyhound tracks are profiled here. Perry looks at the importance of keeping records; noting when favorites hit; making multiple bets rather than focusing on a single dog each race. Through analysis, past performance and bits of logic, the author steers the bettor to a more positive method of wagering. The final five pages of this booklet discuss Pick 3 with emphasis on the cost and how well this bet pays if you hit one. 42 pages, paperbound. No date.

One of Americas foremost fantasy football experts shows, step-by-step, everything you need to know to play and win at fantasy football. Includes the basic rules of play; when to draft players how to get value deep down in the rounds; tricks to finding sleepers and avoiding busts, and more. Includes the 10 basics of fantasy football, head-to-head, rotisserie, salary cap, keeper leagues, and draft/auction strategies. 275 pgs, paperback, 2005

Subtitled "How to Give Yourself a Fighting Chance at the Casino". Dedicated research on other systems and personal experimentation has turned a handful of notes into a comprehensive collection of potentially winning strategies. First and foremost, it is important to understanding that there is no winning system that can beat the mathematical odds that the casino has against a player. However, this book teaches you strategies to follow while in the casino, giving you a large amount of...

Are you a social or recreational poker player?Would you like to improve your game and win a bit more often?Do you have 30 minutes a day to spare? Then this is the book for you. There is a lot of material available for players trying to improve their poker game. However, much of the advice is rather advanced. It can be complicated and not always easy to implement at the table. Winning Poker in 30 Minutes a Day is different. It keeps the advice simple and direct and enables you to learn the...

All of the secrets exposed! This book illustrates the strategies used to win the Aussie Millions Poker Tournament in 2007. It is like a treasure map to the final table. Look at what's inside: 39 graphs or tables that illustrate the strategies used to win the Aussie Millions Poker Tournament in 2007; precise analysis of the illustrations presented; explanation of playing position; choosing your starting hands; pot odds and implied pot odds; why you should defend your blinds and why you should...

You're in the money...Now what? You've put in the time, you've built up your stack, and now, at last you're inching ever closer to serious tournament payoffs. At this stage, playing smart is more crucial than ever, and who better to give you the edge than three of modern poker's greatest tournament pros? They'll take you from the bubble to the final! Volume 1 of this series shed new light on dominating the early stages of tournaments, and now in, Volume 2, Pearljammer, Apestyles, and Rizen-...

Want to win poker tournaments? Now you can learn exactly how consistent winners really do it. Volume 1 of this series shed new light on the fundamentals of early tournament play. Volume 2 showed you how to get from the money down to the final table. Now, Pearljammer, Apestyles and Rizen - players whose collective stats include more than 2,000 final tables made, over 300 major wins, and more than $10,000,000 in cashes - return in Volume III to analyze 50 new hands from major online tournaments....