"The runaway winner as the best overall gambling encyclopedia written in the past 20 years.”--Detroit Free Press Walk away from every casino a winner! Take it from Mensa, the society for people with high IQs: you don’t have to be a genius to triumph at the tables. Here’s the inside line on the games and bets that give the best advantage. Do you know whether to split a pair of aces in blackjack, which slot machines carry the worst payback for the player, and why losses are more significant at video than "live” keno? Beat the bank by understanding all this and more, including odds and probability, the "house edge,” money management, and gambling psychology. The chips will just pile up. The author lives in New York, NY.

The definitive guide to the best strategies at the gambling table-now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition Long recognized as the gambler's bible, The Winner's Guide to Casino Gambling has been completely revised and expanded to include new rules and strategies for every major game in the casino, including several popular new ones. This entirely updated fourth edition remains the most authoritative and comprehensive book in its field, bringing gambling expert Edwin Silberstang's professional secrets and expertise into the twenty-first-century casino. The Winner's Guide to Casino Gambling can literally replace a shelf full of guides to individual games-each chapter is a book of its own. Silberstang shows readers - the best strategies to beat multiple-deck blackjack, including simple but powerful card-counting methods - how to exploit the free-odds wager in craps to minimize the house edge - ways to win at the most popular video poker games - the secrets to the new casino games, such as Three Card Poker and Let It Ride® - what games to play where for the best odds o a winning approach to thinking as a gambler, worth the cost of the entire book

Casino gambling has spread throughout the world, and continues to spread. As governments try to cope with fiscal pressures, legalized casinos offer a possible source of additional tax revenue. But casino gambling is often controversial, as some people have moral objections to gambling. In addition, a small percentage of the population may become pathological gamblers who may create significant social costs. The Economics of Casino Gambling is a comprehensive discussion of the social and economic costs and benefits of legalized gambling. It is the first comprehensive discussion of these issues available on the market.

Read this book—and we bet that the cash you save in just one trip to the casino will more than make up for its cost! Simply put, this is the best guide to gambling ever written. It reveals the secrets of success known only to the most expert gamblers: how to bet smart, play the cards right, recognize when the odds are in your favor, and walk away a winner. You'll learn about beating the bank with odds and probability, “the house edge,” money management, and the psychology of gambling. Here's all the info you need to play each game like a genius!

Hollywood Blackjack is an uncensored, irreverent guide to annihilating the casinos at their own game, as well as the story of the author's rise from starving actor to revered professional gambler. With his Mensa-certified IQ and over-the-top attitude, Dave Stann covers the technical aspects of winning at blackjack in an easy-to-understand fashion and shares his own experiences as a gambler who plays both under the casino radar and under the hot lights of Hollywood. This book takes all of the basic, most pertinent information necessary for beginning card counters and presents it step by step in an organized fashion with both attitude and colorful language. Designed to attract the young and hip, this book is physically attractive, written by a blackjack celebrity, and covers all the details. From basic strategy to the powerful Hi-Lo count system, index numbers to proper betting techniques, the all-important camouflage plays to avoiding casino countermeasures, Hollywood Blackjack brings it all together while the author puts it all out there. Along with stories of the author's play in front of the cameras, this book both educates and entertains. For players and fans alike, Hollywood Blackjack takes you into, around, and inside-out the world of the multi-talented Bad Boy of Gambling.

Slots are now the casinos most popular casino game with more players than ever looking to win the big jackpot. Jensen shows you the secrets of profitable machines and how to increase your chances for a big jackpot! Written in conversational style, this easy-to-read book has information on not only finding and beating the best machines, but how to earn points, free rooms and meals, and even cash back by joining the slots clubs. Lots of information includes the basics of play, how to find the machines and casinos with the most frequent and largest payoffs, the different types of machines, the history of slots, insider advice on how to avoid losing machines (in airports, by show lines) and how to find the most profitable machines. 164 pages

These are the smartest, simplest, most solid strategies for winning blackjack ever--even a total novice can bet on it. Joshua Hornik belongs to a group of professionals who prove their talents at the table every day, and he knows the system for coming out on top. It's all about counting the cards--do it right and the odds are on your side. Hornik explains blackjack's rules and basic tactics, how to do the actual card counting, and how to use the information the numbers reveal to make the right bets. Back-counting, comps and heat, shuffle tracking, ace tracking, and playing with a team--it's all covered. Throughout the book, examples of hands are used to illustrate the tactics, and an interview with a pro provides astounding insight.