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Aces And Kings: Inside Stories And Million-dollar Strategies From Poker's Greatest Playersby Michael Kaplan, Brad ReaganISBN 1932958002 (1-932958-00-2)
Hardcover, Wenner Books
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Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Livedby Greg Dinkin, Amarillo Slim PrestonISBN 0060762306 (0-06-076230-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Hardcover, Harpercollins - Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived: ISBN 0224071017 (0-224-07101-7)
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American Casino Guide 2006by Anthony Curtis, John Robinson, Henry Tamburin, Max Rubin, Jack Short, Steve Bourie, John Grochowski, Jean Scott, Bob Dancer, H. Scot Krause, Alex OuthredISBN 1883768152 (1-883768-15-2)
Softcover, Casino Vacations Pr Inc
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American Mensa Guide to Casino Gambling: Winning Waysby Andrew BrismanISBN 080694837X (0-8069-4837-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Mensa Guide to Casino Gambling: Winning Ways'Book summary:"...begins by acquainting you with the ambiance of the typical casino and presenting an overview of the vast gaming industry. He thoroughly explains odds, probabilities, and the casino's inherent advantage. He presents an in-depth discussion, imbued with delightful humor, of the many games offered....teaches you to gamble like an educated consumer, and following its advice will make you feel like a winner."--Games.[via]More editions of American Mensa Guide to Casino Gambling: Winning Ways:
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Beat the Dealerby Edward O. ThorpISBN 0394703103 (0-394-70310-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Biggest Game in Townby A. AlvarezISBN 0811834344 (0-8118-3434-4)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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Bringing down the House: How Six Students Took Vegas for Millonsby Ben MezrichISBN 0099468239 (0-09-946823-9)
Softcover, Arrow
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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millionsby Ben MezrichISBN 0743249992 (0-7432-4999-2)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions'Book summary:It's Friday night and you're on a red-eye to the city of sin. Strapped to your chest is half a million dollars; in your overnight bag is another twenty-five thousand in blackjack chips; and your wallet holds ten fake IDs. As soon as you land in Las Vegas, you are positive you are being investigated and followed. To top it all off, the IRS is auditing you, someone has been going through your mail -- and you have a multivariable calculus exam on Monday morning. Welcome to the world of an exclusive group of audacious MIT math geniuses who legally took the casinos for over three million dollars -- while still finding time for college keg parties, football games, and final exams.
In the midst of the go-go eighties and nineties, a group of overachieving, anarchistic MIT students joined a decades-old underground blackjack club dedicated to counting cards and beating the system at major casinos around the world. While their classmates were working long hours in labs and libraries, the blackjack team traveled weekly to Las Vegas and other glamorous gambling locales, with hundreds of thousands of dollars duct-taped to their bodies. Underwritten by shady investors they would never meet, these kids bet fifty thousand dollars a hand, enjoyed VIP suites and other upscale treats, and partied with showgirls and celebrities.
Handpicked by an eccentric mastermind -- a former MIT professor and an obsessive player who had developed a unique system of verbal cues, body signals, and role-playing -- this one ring of card savants earned more than three million dollars from corporate Vegas, making them the object of the casinos' wrath and eventually targets of revenge. Here is their inside story, revealing their secrets for the first time.
Master storyteller Ben Mezrich takes you from the ivory towers of academia to the Technicolor world of Las Vegas, where anything can happen -- and often does. [via]
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Busting Vega$: The Mit Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Kneesby Ben MezrichISBN 0060575115 (0-06-057511-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Busting Vegas : The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees'Book summary:Semyon Dukach couldn't believe how easy the money was. In one weekend, the MIT math genius and his team of geeks had made $200,000 playing the blackjack tables in Las Vegas. They hadn't cheated. Instead, they had discovered one of humanity's greatest holy grails: a system to beat the casino. They had rendered obsolete the old saying that the house always wins. Dukach and his friends made millions during the 1990s playing blackjack in the world's top casinos, right under the noses of pit bosses and security consultants who thought they had seen it all. Dukach's story is told in author Ben Mezrich's vividly narrated book Busting Vegas.
Mezrich, the author of previous bestsellers about MIT gamblers and a colorful Ivy League trader in Japan, tells how Dukach's crew used a system that Vegas had never seen before. Dukach, the son of Russian immigrants who grew up in the poorest neighborhoods of New Jersey and Houston, was determined to climb out of poverty and help his family. His system didn't involve the commonly used techniques of card counting. Posing as an arms dealer or dentist, Dukach deliberately sought out blackjack dealers with small hands or thin fingers who frequently didn't conceal the bottom card when they shuffled the cards. Dukach would often manage to get a glimpse at the bottom card. This was highly significant because it was the card the dealer would hand the player to cut the deck. Dukach had practiced a technique to insert the card in a precise spot in the deck and then make big bets when the card was dealt. Dukach and his team ended up barred from casinos, threatened at gunpoint, and beaten in Vegas's notorious back rooms. This is a riveting yarn. Alex Roslin [via]
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Busting Vegas: A True Story Of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, And Beating The Oddsby Ben Mezrich, Dukach, Semyon (AFT)ISBN 0060575123 (0-06-057512-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Busting Vegas: A True Story Of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, And Beating The Odds'Book summary:Semyon Dukach couldn't believe how easy the money was. In one weekend, the MIT math genius and his team of geeks had made $200,000 playing the blackjack tables in Las Vegas. They hadn't cheated. Instead, they had discovered one of humanity's greatest holy grails: a system to beat the casino. They had rendered obsolete the old saying that the house always wins. Dukach and his friends made millions during the 1990s playing blackjack in the world's top casinos, right under the noses of pit bosses and security consultants who thought they had seen it all. Dukach's story is told in author Ben Mezrich's vividly narrated book Busting Vegas.
Mezrich, the author of previous bestsellers about MIT gamblers and a colorful Ivy League trader in Japan, tells how Dukach's crew used a system that Vegas had never seen before. Dukach, the son of Russian immigrants who grew up in the poorest neighborhoods of New Jersey and Houston, was determined to climb out of poverty and help his family. His system didn't involve the commonly used techniques of card counting. Posing as an arms dealer or dentist, Dukach deliberately sought out blackjack dealers with small hands or thin fingers who frequently didn't conceal the bottom card when they shuffled the cards. Dukach would often manage to get a glimpse at the bottom card. This was highly significant because it was the card the dealer would hand the player to cut the deck. Dukach had practiced a technique to insert the card in a precise spot in the deck and then make big bets when the card was dealt. Dukach and his team ended up barred from casinos, threatened at gunpoint, and beaten in Vegas's notorious back rooms. This is a riveting yarn. Alex Roslin [via]
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Casino Royale: Library Editionby Ian FlemingISBN 1567310567 (1-56731-056-7)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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The battle begins with a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat, gains momentum during Bond's fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy, and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist. For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills, and extraordinary danger, nothing can beat James Bond in his inaugural adventure.More editions of Casino Royale: Library Edition:
Double Downby Frederick Barthelme, Steven BarthelmeISBN 0156010704 (0-15-601070-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Lossby Frederick Barthelme, Steven BarthelmeISBN 0395954290 (0-395-95429-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss'Book summary:"So each night begins. One of us picks up the other and we drive into the Mississippi darkness, headed for a place where everything is different." This first nonfiction book by Frederick Barthelme, author of BOB THE GAMBLER, and his brother and colleague Steven is both a story of family feeling and a testimony to the risky allure of casinos. Within a year and a half, the authors had lost both of their parents, less than a decade after their brother Donald died. Their exacting father had been a prominent modernist architect in Houston; their mother, the architect of this family of seven, which she "invented, shaped, guided, and protected." "We were on our own in a remarkable new way," the Barthelmes write, "and we were not ready." What followed was a several-year escapade during which the two brothers lost close to a quarter million dollars in the gambling boats off the Mississippi coast. They played to enter that addictive land of possibility. Then, in a bizarre twist, they were charged with violating state gambling laws, fingerprinted, and thrown into the surreal world of felony prosecution. For two years these widely publicized charges hung over their heads, shadowing their every step, until, in August of 1999, the charges were finally dismissed. DOUBLE DOWN is the sometimes wryly told, often heartbreaking story of how Frederick and Steven Barthelme got into this predicament. It is also a reflection on the pull and power of illusions, the way they work on us when we are not careful.[via]More editions of Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss:
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Doyle Brunson's Super System: A Course in Power Pokerby Doyle Brunson, Allan GoldbergISBN 1580420818 (1-58042-081-8)
Softcover, Cardoza Pub
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Eight Men Out: The Blacksox and the 1919 World Seriesby Eliot Asinof, Stephen J. GouldISBN 0805065377 (0-8050-6537-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eight Men Out: The Blacksox and the 1919 World Series'Book summary:The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America! First published in 1963, Eight Men Out has become a timeless classic. Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of the fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nations leading gamblers to throw the Series in Cincinnati. Mr. Asinof vividly describes the tense meetings, the hitches in the conniving, the actual plays in which the Series was thrown, the Grand Jury indictment, and the famous 1921 trial. Moving behind the scenes, he perceptively examines the motives and backgrounds of the players and the conditions that made the improbable fix all too possible. Here, too, is a graphic picture of the American underworld that managed the fix, the deeply shocked newspapermen who uncovered the story, and the war-exhausted nation that turned with relief and pride to the Series, only to be rocked by the scandal. Far more than a superbly told baseball story, this is a compelling slice of American history in the aftermath of World War I and at the cusp of the Roaring Twenties.
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- Eight Men Out: The Black Socks and the 1919 World Series: ISBN 0613180720 (0-613-18072-0)
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Softcover, Henry Holt & Co - Eight Men Out: The Blacksox and the 1919 World Series: ISBN 0708958524 (0-7089-5852-4)
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Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
- Eight Men Out: The Black Socks and the 1919 World Series: ISBN 0613180720 (0-613-18072-0)
The Eudaemonic Pieby Thomas A. BassISBN 0595142362 (0-595-14236-2)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos And Wall Streetby William PoundstoneISBN 0809045990 (0-8090-4599-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos And Wall Street'Book summary:Fortune's Formula is a fascinating study of the connections between such seemingly unrelated topics as gambling, information theory, stock investing, and applied mathematics. The story involves the stunning brainpower of men such as MIT professor Claude Shannon, who single-handedly invented information theory, the science behind the Internet and all digital media; Ed Thorpe; and John Kelly of Bell Laboratories, who developed the "Kelly criterion," a now-legendary investment strategy for maximizing growth while controlling risk. Initially, Shannon and Thorpe took Kelly's theory to Las Vegas and applied it to roulette and blackjack. Later, they took it to Wall Street and cleaned up--Shannon made a personal fortune while Thorpe created the highly successful hedge firm Princeton-Newport Partners. They both discovered that Kelly's system was particularly effective when applied to arbitrage (minute price differences that result from market inefficiencies). As Poundstone ably demonstrates, the merits of Kelly's criterion are still hotly debated today.
Poundstone has a tendency to meander in his writing, but his asides are so revealing and interesting that they add, rather than detract, from the narrative. The book also includes a cast of fascinating and colorful characters as varied as Ivan Boesky, Warren Buffet, Rudolph Giuliani, and notorious mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. In explaining the lasting impact of the work done by Shannon, Thorpe, and Kelly, Poundstone even explains Kelly's system for those wishing to follow his formula, offering readers both theoretical and practical lessons. Whether viewed as a how-to guide or straight scientific and financial history, Fortune's Formula proves an entertaining and illuminating analysis of "the most successful gambling system of all time." --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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The Frugal Gamblerby Jean ScottISBN 0929712404 (0-929712-40-4)
Softcover, Huntington Pr
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The Gamblerby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 1419163264 (1-4191-6326-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gambler'Book summary:The Gambler brilliantly captures the strangely powerful compulsion to bet that Dostoyevsky, himself a compulsive gambler, knew so well. The hero rides an emotional roller coaster between exhilaration and despair, and secondary characters such as the Grandmother, who throws much of her fortune away at the gaming tables, are unforgettable. The book's publishing history is equally so: Under the pressure of a deadline from an unscrupulous publisher, and with rights to his entire oeuvre at stake, Dostoyevsky dictated the book in less than a month to the star pupil of Russia's first shorthand school. Then he married her. [via]
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- The Gambler: ISBN 1420926780 (1-4209-2678-0)
Softcover, Digireads.Com - The Gambler: ISBN 1421801280 (1-4218-0128-0)
Softcover, 1st World Library - The Gambler: ISBN 1557423156 (1-55742-315-6)
Softcover, Wildside Pr - The Gambler: ISBN 184391123X (1-84391-123-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square - The Gambler: ISBN 0393316491 (0-393-31649-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Gambler: ISBN 0486290816 (0-486-29081-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Gambler: ISBN 0812966937 (0-8129-6693-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Gambler: ISBN 0393000443 (0-393-00044-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Gambler: ISBN 1419163264 (1-4191-6326-4)
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Gambler Bobok: A Nasty Storyby Fyodor DostoeyevskyISBN 0140441794 (0-14-044179-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gambler Bobok: A Nasty Story'Book summary:The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevsky's genius for fusing caricature, irony and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour. "The Gambler" is a breathtaking portrayal of an intense and futile obsession. Based on Dostoyevsky's own experience of financial desperation and the compulsive desire to win money, it focuses on the characters that take their places at the gaming tables of 'Roulettenburg': the outspoken, aristocratic 'Grandmamma', the mercenary Mademoiselle Blanche, the cool, mysterious Polina and Alex, the author's self-portrait; a man gripped by exhilaration and hopelessness. "Bobok" is a blackly comic satire in which a desolate writer becomes drawn into the conversations of the dead, and "A Nasty Story" is a humorous look at the disparity between a man's exaggerated ideal of himself and the sad reality. [via]
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The Gambler: With the Diary of Polina Suslovaby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Edward Wasiolek, Victor TerrasISBN 0226159701 (0-226-15970-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Games You Can't Lose: A Guide for Suckersby Harry Anderson, Turk PipkinISBN 1580800866 (1-58080-086-6)
Softcover, Burford Books
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Getting Started In Hold 'emby Ed MillerISBN 1880685345 (1-880685-34-5)
Softcover, Two Plus Two Pub
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Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No-Limit Tournaments The Endgameby Bill Robertie, Dan HarringtonISBN 1880685337 (1-880685-33-7)
Softcover, Two Plus Two Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harrington On Hold 'em: Expert Strategy For No-Limit Tournaments, Strategic Play'Book summary:Poker has taken America by storm. But it s not just any form of poker that has people across the country so excited it s No-Limit Hold Em the main event game. And now thanks to televised tournaments tens of thousands of new players are eager to claim their share of poker glory.
Harrington on Hold Em takes you to the part of the game the cameras ignore the tactics required to get through the hundreds and sometimes thousands of hands you must win to make it to the final table. Harrington s sophisticated and time-tested winning strategies, focusing on what it takes to survive the early and middle stages of a No-Limit Hold Em tournament, are appearing here for the first time in print. These are techniques that top players use again and again to get to make it to final tables around the globe.
Now, learn from one of the world s most successful No-Limit Hold Em players how to vary your style, optimize your betting patterns, analyze hands, respond to a re-raise, play to win the most money possible, react when a bad card hits and much, much more.
Dan Harrington won the gold bracelet and the World Champion title at the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold Em Championship at the 1995 World Series of Poker. And he was the only player to make it to the final table in 2003 (field of 839) and 2004 (field of 2576) considered by cognoscenti to be the greatest accomplishment in WSOP history. In Harrington on Hold Em, Harrington and 2-time World Backgammon Champion Bill Robertie have written the definitive book on No-Limit Hold Em for players who want to win ... and win big. [via]
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Harry Anderson's Games You Can't Lose: A Guide for Suckersby Turk Pipkin, Harry AndersonISBN 067164727X (0-671-64727-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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High Low Split Poker, Seven-Card Stud and Omaha Eight-Or-Better for Advanced Playersby Ray ZeeISBN 1880685108 (1-880685-10-8)
Softcover, Two Plus Two Pub
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Hold 'Em Pokerby David SklanskyISBN 1880685086 (1-880685-08-6)
Softcover, Two Plus Two Pub
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Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Playersby David Sklansky, Mason MalmuthISBN 1880685221 (1-880685-22-1)
Softcover, Two Plus Two Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players'Book summary:Texas Hold em is not an easy game to play well. To become an expert you must balance many concepts, some of which occasionally contradict each other. In 1988, the first edition appeared. Many ideas, which were only known to a small, select group of players, were made available to anyone who was striving to become an expert, and the hold em explosion had begun. It is now a new century, and the authors have again moved the state of the art forward by adding over 100 pages of new material, including extensive sections on "loose games," and "short-handed games." Anyone who studies this text, is well disciplined, and gets the proper experience should become a significant winner. Some of the other ideas discussed include play on the first two cards, semi-bluffing, the free card, inducing bluffs, staying with a draw, playing when a pair flops, playing trash hands, desperation bets, playing in wild games, reading hands, and psychology. [via]
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How Good Is Your Limit Hold 'em?by Byron Jacobs, Jim BrierISBN 1904468152 (1-904468-15-2)
Softcover, D & B Pub
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Ian Fleming's Casino Royaleby Ian FlemingISBN 0425081621 (0-425-08162-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Inside the Poker Mind: Essays on Hold'Em and General Poker Conceptsby David Sklansky, John FeeneyISBN 1880685264 (1-880685-26-4)
Softcover, Two Plus Two Pub
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Las Vegas: Vintage Graphics from Sin Cityby Jim Heimann, William R. Wilkerson, W. R. WilkersonISBN 3822826200 (3-8228-2620-0)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Last Callby Tim PowersISBN 0380715570 (0-380-71557-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Call'Book summary:Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Last Call is a masterpiece of magic realism from critically acclaimed author Tim Powers.
Set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas, Last Call tells the story of a one-eyed professional gambler who discovers that he was not the big winner in a long-ago poker game . . . and now must play for the highest stakes ever as he searches for a way to win back his soul.
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Loaded Diceby James SwainISBN 0345463277 (0-345-46327-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Man With the $100,000 Breasts: And Other Gambling Storiesby Michael Konik, Charlie Conrad, Becky ColeISBN 0767904451 (0-7679-0445-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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More Basic Betting: Programming to Winby James JasperISBN 0312547862 (0-312-54786-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Oddsby Chad MillmanISBN 0306811561 (0-306-81156-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Odds: One Season, Three Gamblers, and the Death of Their Las Vegasby Chad MillmanISBN 1891620231 (1-891620-23-1)
Hardcover, Public Affairs
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Oscar and Lucindaby Peter CareyISBN 0060915927 (0-06-091592-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oscar and Lucinda'Book summary:Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher's kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees. Lucinda Leplastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. In the early parts of this lushly written book, author Peter Carey renders the seminal turning points in his protagonists' childhoods as exquisite 19th-century set pieces. Young Oscar, denied the heavenly fruit of a Christmas pudding by his cruelly stern father, forever renounces his father's religion in favor of the Anglican Church. "Dear God," Oscar prays, "if it be Thy will that Thy people eat pudding, smite him!" Lucinda's childhood trauma involves a beautiful doll bought by her struggling mother with savings from the jam jar; in a misguided attempt to tame the doll's unruly curls, young Lucinda mutilates her treasure beyond repair. Neither of these coming-of-age stories quite explains how the grownup Oscar and Lucinda each develop a guilty passion for gambling. Oscar plays the horses while at school, and Lucinda, now an orphaned heiress, finds comfort in a game of cards with an odd collection of acquaintances. When the two finally meet, on board a ship bound for New South Wales, they are bound by their affinity for risk, their loneliness, and their awkwardly blossoming (but unexpressed) mutual affection. Their final high-stakes folly--transporting a crystal palace of a church across (literally) godforsaken terrain--strains plausibility, and events turn ghastly as Oscar plays out his bid for Lucinda's heart. Yet even the unconvincing plot turns are made up for by Carey's rich prose and the tale's unpredictable outcome. Although love proves to be the ultimate gamble for Oscar and Lucinda, the story never strays too far from the terrible possibility that even the most thunderstruck lovers can remain isolated in parallel lives. [via]
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Play Poker Like the Prosby Phil HellmuthISBN 0060005726 (0-06-000572-6)
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Poker Essaysby Mason MulmuthISBN 1880685159 (1-880685-15-9)
Softcover, Two Plus Two Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poker Essays'Book summary:Poker is a game which many people play, but in which few excel. To be successful requires a great deal of work and study, and a deep understanding of those concepts that govern winning play. Yet it is fairly easy to win at poker. All you need to do is learn to play tight, and stick to easy games -- usually those prevalent at the low limits. But there is a problem with this. While this is a winning formula, it won t allow you to do much better than minimum wage. But there are a small number of players who do much better than this. These are the experts who have mastered the proper skills and have done their share of thinking.
This text contains those essays the author wrote from 1996 through early 2001. Topics include: General Concepts, Technical Ideas, Strategic Ideas, In the Cardrooms, Hands to Talk About, The Ciaffone Quiz, and Two More Quizzes. In addition, advice is offered on which game to play, controlling steaming, marginal hands, selecting the best game, bluffing, unusual strategies, raising with suited connectors, keeping poker honest, reading hands, checking aces, and much more.
As with the first two books in this series, Poker Essays, Volume III is designed to make the reader do a great deal of thinking. In fact, very few readers will agree with everything this text offers, but the information provided should help most people become better poker players. [via]
Poker for Dummiesby Richard Harroch, Lou KriegerISBN 0764552325 (0-7645-5232-5)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Poker Nation: A High Stakes, Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Countryby Andy BellinISBN 0060958472 (0-06-095847-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poker Nation: A High Stakes, Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country'Book summary:Readers who enjoy poker will love Poker Nation, an energetic and obsessive account of America's favorite card game, told with intelligence and panache. Andy Bellin writes in the first person and from the gut, recounting stories about poker fanatics (himself among them) and dispensing advice on how to play the game: "You have to maximize profits through guile and savvy, eke out every last dollar that your competition is willing to lose to you--and, when you don't have the winning cards, flee as fast as possible." Aphorisms leap off the pages: "The worst hand in poker is the second-best one at the table" and "People say the mark of a con is in the details." Whether readers prefer the anecdotes about double-bluffing and illegal poker clubs or the tips on when to hold and when to fold (there's even a table showing the "Chances of Drawing Helpful Cards from a Deck of Forty-Seven Unknown Cards"), anybody interested in its subject matter will find Poker Nation engrossing. --John Miller [via]
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Positively Fifth Streetby James McManusISBN 0312422520 (0-312-42252-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Positively Fifth Street'Book summary:In 2000, novelist and poet James McManus was sent to Las Vegas, innocently enough, by Harper's magazine to write a story about the World Series of Poker held annually at Binion's Horseshoe. But then, as so often happens on trips to Sin City, something kind of ... happened. Rather than becoming an objective report, McManus's article evolved into a memoir as he put his entire advance on the line, got lucky with his cards and won a spot in the competition, and came much closer than anyone expected to winning the darn thing. The result, Positively Fifth Street, is just as dazzling, exciting, and disturbing as Vegas itself.
McManus details his battles not only against his opponents but also against "Bad Jim," the portion of his own personality that needs to get in on a poker game in spite of both common and fiscal sense. Besides telling his own story, he relates the considerably more unpleasant tale of Ted Binion, whose grisly death was blamed on Binion's former stripper-girlfriend and her ex-linebacker beau. In the hands of a lesser author, the pursuit of these separate through lines of poker and the seedy personal lives of wealthy casino heirs may have lead readers to wish the author had picked just one subject. But under McManus's careful watch, they're really pretty similar: steeped in adrenaline, mystery, deception, and skating on thrillingly thin ice. Each story underscores the other, a neat little "narrative as metaphor" device, while also painting a vivid picture of Vegas casino life. Poker, as anyone who has lost at it will tell you, is an intricate game and it's nice to see a top-notch author and player relate its finer points in an entertaining style that will appeal even to non-players. The author's hilariously self-aware and at times self-loathing style make Positively Fifth Street a fun read. But beyond that, his account of nearly winning the biggest poker tournament in the world and subsequently watching as the verdicts are announced for Binion's accused murderers makes for a great story. Even if it wasn't the one he was sent there to write. --John Moe [via]
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The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Timeby Michael CraigISBN 0446694975 (0-446-69497-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Psychology of Pokerby Alan N. SchoonmakerISBN 1880685256 (1-880685-25-6)
Softcover, Two Plus Two Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Psychology of Poker'Book summary:Poker demands many skills and strategies. To be successful, you must be able to master all of them and then apply them at the appropriate times. They include proper hand selection, appropriate aggression, bluffing, semi-bluffing, understanding tells and telegraphs, choosing the right games, and reading hands. These skills do not come easily since they require unnatural actions. You cannot win just by "doing what comes naturally." This book does not provide strategic advice; you should get it from other Two Plus Two books. Dr. Schoonmaker is concerned only with the way that psychological factors affect your own and your opponents ability to play properly.
For example, have you ever wondered why some players seem extremely aggressive while others are passive? Why some are tight and others loose? Furthermore, have you ever wondered why some tactics seem to come naturally to you while others dont?
This text will answer many of these questions. It will explain why you and your opponents play the way you do. Many people know how to play properly, but play poorly. Simply learning strategy does not mean that you will apply it properly.
The author also suggests strategic adjustments that you should make to improve your results against different kinds of players, and he suggests personal adjustments that will help you to play better and enjoy the game more. [via]
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Scarne's New Complete Guide to Gamblingby John ScarneISBN 0671630636 (0-671-63063-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Shut Up and Dealby Jesse MayISBN 0385489404 (0-385-48940-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Small Stakes Hold 'em: Winning Big With Expert Playby Ed Miller, David Sklansky, Mason MalmuthISBN 1880685329 (1-880685-32-9)
Softcover, Two Plus Two Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Small Stakes Hold 'em: Winning Big With Expert Play'Book summary:For todays poker players, Texas hold em is the game. Every day, tens of thousands of small stakes hold em games are played all over the world in homes, card rooms, and on the Internet. These games can be very profitable if you play well. But most people dont play well and end up leaving their money on the table.
Small Stakes Hold em: Winning Big with Expert Play explains everything you need to be a big winner. Unlike many other books about small stakes games, it teaches the aggressive and attacking style used by all professional players. However, it does not simply tell you to play aggressively; it shows you exactly how to make expert decisions through numerous clear and detailed examples.
Small Stakes Hold em teaches you to think like a professional player. Topics include implied odds, pot equity, speculative hands, position, the importance of being suited, hand categories, counting outs, evaluating the flop, large pots versus small pots, protecting your hand, betting for value on the river, and playing overcards. In addition, after you learn the winning concepts, test your skills with over fifty hand quizzes that present you with common and critical hold em decisions. Choose your action, then compare it to the authors play and reasoning.
This text presents cutting-edge ideas in straightforward language. It is the most thorough and accurate discussion of small stakes hold em available. Your opponents will read this book; make sure you do, too! [via]
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Sucker Betby James SwainISBN 0345463234 (0-345-46323-4)
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Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in Americaby Herbert AsburyISBN 1560254955 (1-56025-495-5)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegasby Pete EarleyISBN 0553573497 (0-553-57349-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Telling Lies and Getting Paid: Gambling Storiesby Michael KonikISBN 1585747416 (1-58574-741-6)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Telling Lies and Getting Paid: More Gambling Storiesby Michael KonikISBN 0929712730 (0-929712-73-0)
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The Theory of Pokerby David SklanskyISBN 1880685000 (1-880685-00-0)
Softcover, Two Plus Two Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Theory of Poker'Book summary:The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky discusses theories and concepts applicable to nearly every variation of the game, including five-card draw (high), seven-card stud, hold em, lowball draw, and razz (seven-card lowball stud). This book introduces you to the Fundamental Theorem of Poker, its implications, and how it should affect your play. Other chapters discuss the value of deception, bluffing, raising, the slow-play, the value of position, psychology, heads-up play, game theory, implied odds, the free card, and semibluffing.
Many of todays top poker players will tell you that this is the book that really made a difference in their play. That is, these are the ideas that separate the experts from the typical players. Those who read and study this book will literally leave behind those who dont, and most serious players wear the covers off their copies. This is the best book ever written on poker. [via]
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Thursday-Night Poker: How To Understand, Enjoy--and Winby Peter O. SteinerISBN 0345483529 (0-345-48352-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Thursday-Night Poker : Night Poker:How to Understand, Enjoy -- And Winby Peter O. SteinerISBN 0679760202 (0-679-76020-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Tournament Poker for Advanced Playersby David SklanskyISBN 1880685280 (1-880685-28-0)
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Winning Low-Limit Hold'Emby Lee JonesISBN 1886070237 (1-886070-23-7)
Softcover, Conjelco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winning Low-Limit Hold'Em'Book summary:Since its first publication in 1994, Winning Low-Limit Hold'em, by Lee Jones, has become the major reference on playing Texas Hold'em at the lower limits. However, poker has changed over the several years and Lee has continued to study the game. The result is this revised and expanded second edition.
If you play low-limit Holdem, or would like to learn to play Holdem, this book is for you. It wont teach you a lot of advanced poker theory, but it will give you a solid foundation with which you can be a winner at low-limit Holdem.
Read this book, study it carefully, and be disciplined: youll be able to beat any 1-4, 3-6, or 1-4-8-8 Holdem game you join. [via]
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El Jugador / the Playerby Fiodor DostoyevskiISBN 844140352X (84-414-0352-X)
Softcover, Edaf Antillas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Jugador / the Player'Book summary:La narración se desarrolla en primera persona desde el punto de vista de Alexei Ivanóvich, el tutor de una familia rusa que vive en una suite de un hotel alemán de la ciudad de Roulettenbourg. El patriarca de la familia, el General, está en deuda con el francés De Grieux y ha hipotecado sus propiedades en Rusia, lo cual le alcanza para pagar sólo una pequeña cantidad del total de su deuda. Al enterarse de la enfermedad de su rica y anciana tía, "la Abuela", el General envía toda una serie de telegramas a Moscú, esperando con ansia la noticia de su fallecimiento. Con su herencia espera pagar sus deudas y conseguir la mano de Madamoiselle De Cominges. [via]
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Leto V Badene: Romanby Leonid TsypkinISBN 5867932303 (5-86793-230-3)
Hardcover, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie
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