If you've seen Poker tournaments on TV, you've seen amateurs and poker-unknowns battle it out with top professionals for millions of dollars. If you've played poker online, chances are you've played for much, much less than that.This is YOUR strategy book.All the top strategy books have worthwhile information and are great for top-line players, but for the rest of us (the small stakes 90%), we are in need of something a bit different, because the conditions at those $10,000...

Back in the day – say, the 1930s – if you wanted to gamble, the only legal action was the local horse track. Sure, Nevada had casinos, but nowhere else. There were no lotteries, no riverboats, no Internet. Horse racing was not just the only legal gambling option, but it was also one of America's most popular sporting events. Only baseball could rival horse racing for fan appeal and newspaper headlines. It was a time of Seabiscuit, War Admiral, and Whirlaway.Flash forward to today. S...

Blackjack, or Twenty-One if you prefer, is one of the most popular table games in any casino. And it has the lowest "casino edge" of any game, too. So why aren't more people playing?They don't know how to play. They feel intimidated. They think slots give them a better deal. They don't want to lose all their money. They think Paula Deen will eat them with a pound of butter.I can deal with all of these issues except the last one. Blackjack can be easy to learn, and with my s...

This is a collection of short stories and articles that I have written over the years about poker, gambling, and the like. Gambling is such a fascinating subject - it encompasses all that life has to offer - opportunity, risk, fate, luck, pathos, and alcohol. Some of these stories have never been published, others were published a long time ago, and one actually won an award. Can you guess which one? Amazingly (to me), it's not the best one. Well, that was my opinion, and fortunately for m...

Walk into any casino, and there is one section where the action is fast and furious. Players are whooping it up, and it sounds like one big party. You approach the area, and, squeezing through the crowd, you discover a long green felted table with a myriad of complex, confusing symbols. You hear voices, but while you can recognize the words, it seems they are in language you've never heard before – at least, you have no idea what they mean: "Eighter from Decatur," "Six and one and you're a...

You Don't Have To Be A Professional Gambler To Win Like One.How would you like to be a winning blackjack player? A player who gets respect, always makes the right bets, and above all—never loses his or her cool?Now you can. Finally, you don't have to be a professional gambler to enjoy lucrative winnings at the blackjack tables.Winning at Blackjack gives you insider's tips and tricks for mastering the skills needed to win at blackjack, making the most of your time an...

After pumping dollars into the slot machine and staring at a screen, you get up and notice the table games section of the casino. Brightly lit from can lights shining downward and the crisp green felt of the line of games making you think of the cash in your wallet or purse.There is a row of blackjack tables. Some have a dealer standing with their hands clasped idly in front of them or pressed along the cushion running along the felt. They stare at the gamblers roaming the casino e...

The #1 national bestseller and basis for the hit film 21, this true story of an MIT blackjack team reveals how brilliant math students used card counting to beat Las Vegas casinos for millions—and lived to tell the tale.Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.’s math students and engineers take up blackjack under the guidance of an eccentric mastermind. Their small blackjack club develops from an experiment in counting cards ...

With more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!In this seventh book in the My Weird School Daze series, Ella Mentry School's counselor wants everybody to stop arguing and get along with one another. He wants everybody to be polite! He wants everybody to live in peace and harmony! What is his problem? Now the boys have to play with dolls! The girls have to play with action figures! And that's only the start of Dr. Brad's we...

Khloé Kardashian is a well known Entrepreneur, Socialite, Television Personality, Radio Personality and Model.But did you know she had a eating disorder when she was young? Did you know that Khloé ‘s was arrested for DUI? Did you know they're are rumors that the man she adored, Robert Kardashian may not be her biological father?This is a short read that gives you up close, informative and documented juicy details on Khloe Kardashian and her growing empire full of fame and f...

ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee pulls back the curtain on her life in Natural Disaster. Ginger grew up in small-town Michigan where she developed an obsession with weather as a young girl. Ginger opens up about her lifelong battle with crippling depression, her romances that range from misguided to dangerous, and her tumultuous professional path. This cyclone of stories may sound familiar to some—it's just that Ginger's personal tempests happened while she was covering some of the ...

Lady Gaga is, without question, one of the biggest celebrities of our day. But who is she, really? Heres her life, briefly told.