Presents a winning system and, even more importantly, explains how to avoid being detected once you begin to use it.

In Burning the Tables in Las Vegas, Ian Andersen, author of the classic Turning the Tables on Las Vegas and one of the most successful high-stakes blackjack players of all time, shares his personal program for success at blackjack, poker, and life. This second edition contains three important new chapters: one on the use of the surrender option at blackjack as a camouflage technique, one on green-chip play for medium rollers; and one on understanding casino psychology. The "Crazy Surrender" chapter expands Andersen's Ultimate Gambit and adds another dimension to his technique of using elements of mathematics and psychology to remain below the casino radar. This new edition also contains a Foreword by blackjack legend Stanford Wong.

Die in Neuenburg ansässigen Architekten Geninsaca Delefortrie machen seit einigen Jahren mit ihren Projekten auf sich aufmerksam. Die Art und Weise der Projektrealisierung, die Geninasca Delefortrie betreiben ist ebenso ungewöhnlich wie sie einen Weg jenseits der gängigen Akquiseformen weist. Spätestens mit dem Bau des neuen städtische Fussballstadion in der Maladière, drang das Büro auch in das Bewusstsein einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit. Das Büro ist damit nicht nur zur treibenden Kraft der lokalen Architekturszene geworden, sondern, viel wichtiger, auch der Stadtentwicklung und damit Beispiel, wie Architektur bewusst städtische Entwicklungsprozesse beeinflussen und auch lenken kann. Die Architekten sind dabei – das ist das besondere– ihre eigenen Auftraggeber: Sie definieren städtische Grundstücke mit Entwicklungspotenzial und gehen dann auf die Städte zu, um gemeinsam mit den zuständigen Ämtern Bebauungspläne wie Konzept für die Bebauung zu entwickeln. Mit der ersten Monografie über Geninasca Delefortrie wird nun erstmals ihr beeindruckendes Werk einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit präsentiert.

This romp through the wilds of Las Vegas features a nice girl, a slimy entertainment executive, a really bad magician, and more laughs and excitement than can be found anywhere on the strip.

The original bestseller that created controversy in its "tell all" style. A 30-year casino executive takes you beyond the facade of flashing neon, providing a rare perspective that few players ever see.

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys • “Whitehead proves a brilliant sociologist of the poker world.” —The Boston Globe In 2011, Grantland magazine gave bestselling novelist Colson Whitehead $10,000 to play at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It was the assignment of a lifetime, except for one hitch—he’d never played in a casino tournament before. With just six weeks to train, our humble narrator took the Greyhound to Atlantic City to learn the ways of high-stakes Texas Hold’em. Poker culture, he discovered, is marked by joy, heartbreak, and grizzled veterans playing against teenage hotshots weaned on Internet gambling. Not to mention the not-to-be overlooked issue of coordinating Port Authority bus schedules with your kid’s drop-off and pickup at school. Finally arriving in Vegas for the multimillion-dollar tournament, Whitehead brilliantly details his progress, both literal and existential, through the event’s antes and turns, through its gritty moments of calculation, hope, and spectacle. Entertaining, ironic, and strangely profound, this epic search for meaning at the World Series of Poker is a sure bet. Look for Colson Whitehead’s bestselling new novel, Harlem Shuffle!

This “brutal and unflinching” novel of fleeting love in Sin City inspired the film starring Nicholas Cage and Elizabeth Shue (Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City). John O’Brien’s debut novel, Leaving Las Vegas, is an emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it; a powerful tale of hard luck, hard drinking, and a relationship of tenderness and destruction. An avowed alcoholic, Ben drinks away his family, friends, and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants of his life and heads for Las Vegas to end it all in the last great binge of his hopeless life. On the Strip, he picks up Sera, a prostitute, in what might have become another excess in his self-destructive jag. Instead, their chance meeting becomes a respite on the road to oblivion as they form a bond that is as mysterious as it is immutable.