Former Director of Surveillance and 30 year casino professional takes you inside the covert world of Casino Surveillance. Go behind the cameras and get the inside info on the Eye in the Sky. Learn what REALLY happens in Vegas and experience true stories from this covert world.Clandestine, covert and elite. We had the power and were untouchable; even our boss didn't suspect half of what we perpetrated on the rest of the casino. If absolute power does indeed corrupt absolutely, what ...

Casinos hate me for this!Former Director of Surveillance and 30-year casino veteran shows you how to spot cheaters, count cards, and keep yourself safe when you visit casinos. Have you ever wished you could go to a casino and turn the tables on them? Tired of being just another player losing his money, pretending to have a great time? Wouldn't you—for a change—like to cut the house advantage, and maybe even win once in a while?Of course you would. We all want to feel like we ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES HUMOUR BOOK OF THE YEAR'One of the few books to make me laugh out loud' Sunday ExpressWith Stephen Pile's The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures, celebrate the very best in failure with this all new collection of outrageously funny misadventures from the author of the classic number one bestseller The Book of Heroic Failures.Anyone can be a success, but it takes re...

Since reigning poker expert Phil Gordon’s Little Green Book illuminated the strategies and philosophies necessary to win at No Limit Texas Hold’em, poker has changed quickly and dramatically. Today, Pot Limit Omaha is the game of choice at nosebleed stakes. The players are aggressive, the games are volatile, the decisions are tough, and the pressure is relentless. This is Poker 2.0.In his Little Gold Book, Phil Gordon reexamines the game from the ...

Your future as a writer is in your hands. Whether you are a newcomer or an accomplished professional, a novelist, story writer, or a writer of nonfiction, you will find this book a wealth of immediately useful guidance not available anywhere else. As Sol Stein, renowned editor, author, and instructor, explains, "This is not a book of theory. It is a book of useable solutions-- how to fix writing that is flawed, how to improve writing that is good, how to create interesting writing in the f...

A hilarious collection of lists, statistics, news items, quotations, and facts detailing stupid acts of Americans from all walks of life—by the authors of the bestselling The 776 Stupidest Things Ever SaidEveryone knows that America is “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” but sometimes that means we’re free to be as bravely stupid as we want! In Unusually Stupid Americans, Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras assemble choice bits of stupidity, U.S.A.-style,...

What advantage will you have to instantly recall what cards have been discarded or played? What miracles do you imagine you could work with a memorized deck?I can show you how to memorize a completely shuffled deck of 52 cards in an hour. No rote memory work required -- anyone of any age can easily do it!Not only will you learn how to memorize a deck of cards in an hour, you will learn how to instantly know what cards have been played or discarded. This is a huge advantage ...

How do you find time to write in a world of distractions? Get answers from a New York Times–bestselling author with more than 125 published novels!Life is crazy and hectic for most of us. We're surrounded with personal and family obligations, jobs, fitness programs, virtual mountains of email, not to mention videogames, TV, smartphones, social networking, and millions of things to check out on the web. With all those distractions, how does an aspiring auth...

Belly up to the gaming table with your personal "ace in the hole!" You've hit the jackpot with this ultimate quick gambling reference. The Little Black Book of Casino Games: The Smart Player's Guide to Gambling boosts your odds of winning by giving you the skinny on house advantage and game protocol for a wealth of casino games, including Baccarat, Blackjack, Craps, Keno, Poker, Roulette, and much more!

In a world…where movies rule…only one man…can write a super-fun e-book about them!If you love movies as much as we do, you won’t want to miss this epic e-book! Several classic Bathroom Reader articles, along with a few new ones, will light up your tiny screen with all-things cinema—from the early days of silent movies to the futuristic world of visual effects. You’ll laugh at hilarious bloopers and cringe at stunts gone wrong. And you’ll never look at movies the sa...

Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener has written about everything from the pristine islands of the South Pacific and the endless wilds of Africa to Spanish bullfighters, American revolutionaries, and pirates of the Caribbean. Now Michener turns to his favorite and most personal subject: the written word.Reproducing pages from his own handwritten rough drafts and working manuscripts, Michener walks the reader through a step-by-step guide to the entire pro...

A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, "one of America's finest writers" (Tom Perrotta)Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for more than twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast experience and a keen critical eye to bear on craft issues facing literary writers. Examples from masters such as Leo Tolstoy, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice Munro illustrate this engagin...