Our guest this week is Michael Craig, author of The Professor, The Banker, and the Suicide King. This is a fascinating book about a billionaire who came to Vegas, and played poker with the best players in the world for the highest stakes anyone has ever played for. podcast Click to listen – Alt click […]
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Podcast – guest Tysen Streib
Our guest this week is Tysen Streib, one of the authors of Flop Turn River. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
Podcast – guest Jake Jacobs
Our guest this week is backgammon professional and author, Jake Jacobs. We talk to Jake about his new novel, The Battered Butterfly. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
Mr. Marty
In 1986 I got a phone call from a friend named Alan. He told me there was a really great blackjack game at Walker Hill casino in Seoul, S. Korea. I forget all the rules, but the game had early surrender vs. 10, and 6 cards was an automatic 1/2 win. All in all the […]
Podcast – guest Adam Tanner
The guest on the show this week is Adam Tanner. author of What Stays in Vegas. The book looks at how casinos and other businesses gather information about each of us in order to help them make more money off of us. podcast click to listen – alt click to download
Podcast – guest David Schwartz
Our guest this week is Professor David Schwartz. He is on to talk about his book Roll The Bones: The History of Gambling. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
No Work and All Play – Book Review
No Work and All Play: Audacious Chronicles of a Casino Boss When I was a teenager I was obsessed with gambling. I was reading any book I could find, mostly about backgammon and poker, but also general gambling books. There was a pit boss from Las Vegas named Mike Goodman who wrote a book in […]
Enemy Number One: The Secrets of the UK’s...
Enemy Number One, by Peter Veitch is a chronicle of the life of a professional horse bettor in the UK. The first section is devoted to an eight year stretch, beginning in 1999, where he won ten million GBP. Ten million is nothing to sneeze at, but since the top horse bettors make many times […]
Ship It Holla Ballas – book review
Ship It Holla Ballas!: How a Bunch of 19-Year-Old College Dropouts Used the Internet to Become Poker’s Loudest, Craziest, and Richest Crew We’ve all seen the movies about what happens when guys go off to college. Think Animal House, American Pie 2, or Van Wilder. There is usually a central party house, and guys who […]
Professional Roulette Prediction by Laurance Sc...
Professional Roulette Prediction, by Laurance Scott was originally written in 1990, and then revised and re-released in 2005. The book presents a method for beating roulette through visual prediction. Scott presents a method for timing the speed of the ball, and the speed of the rotor, and using the relation of those two speeds you […]
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