Gambling 102: The Best Strategies for All Casino Games
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Book Description
There are a few ways to gain tiny advantages over the casino and they all require a lot of work. If it was easy to get rich gambling, everyone would be winning and all the casinos would go out of business. But while it's difficult to beat the house, it's not hard to bring the house advantage down to less than 1%. And if you factor in casino comps, recreational players can turn the odds marginally in their favor. Gambling without a house advantage is like free entertainment.
GAMBLING 102 starts up where most other introductory books about playing casino games leave off, by packing as much strategy information for all the games in as few pages as possible. In addition to the classics like blackjack, baccarat, roulette, craps, keno, and video poker, GAMBLING 102 covers a host of new casino games, such as Casino War and Spanish 21 as well as addressing race and sports betting and Texas Hold 'em.
About the Author
While working as an actuary for the Social Security Administration in the late '90s, Michael Shackleford compiled a list of the popular baby names to avoid choosing a trendy name for his own child. The baby names popularity lists took on a life of their own and since then have been published in dozens of newspapers, books, and magazines.
At about the same time Shackleford created the baby name list, he also introduced his popular gambling Web site, Wizardofodds.com. This, too, took on a life of its own. In 2000 Shackleford left his government job to devote full time to the Web site and a consulting business for the gambling industry.
Today he keeps busy with his web site analyzing new casino games for game inventors, designing slot machines, teaching a casino math class at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and serving as a consultant to land-based and Internet casinos around the world.
Gambling 102: The Best Strategies for All Casino Games,Michael Shackleford,Huntington Press,0929712072,Gambling - General,Games,Games / Gamebooks / Crosswords,Games/Puzzles
Gambling 102: The Best Strategies for All Casino Games
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