Description
Plenty of gambling books explain how to play the games; that’s Gambling 101. Gambling 102 takes you to the next stage, where you’re playing in the best way with the least amount of effort. Within these pages, gambling’s “Wizard of Odds” provides proven strategies for all the casino games—from baccarat to video poker and craps to Ultimate Texas Hold ’Em—in terms that are easy to understand and implement.
Nineteen quick chapters (some as brief as two or three pages) cut right to the heart of each game. They give you, first, an assessment of the odds you face, then the basic strategies you need to lower them as much as possible.
When should I raise in Three Card Poker? How will reduced “juice” affect my sports-betting results? And, of course, what are the good slot machines to play and how do I pick the best blackjack game? Everything you need to play the games as well as they can be played is at your fingertips.
Gambling 102—now in its revised and updated second edition—is the product of years of mathematical analysis, computer modeling, and actual casino play. If you believe in luck or hunches, you probably need another book. But if you believe that mathematics provides the best way to approach games of chance, then Gambling 102 is the book for you.
Click to see the Gambling 102 Table of Contents and read an excerpt.
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About The Author(s)
| Michael Shackleford took after his father with an interest in math, and after graduating from the University of California-Santa Barbara, landed a job as an actuary for the Social Security Administration, where he largely analyzed effects of changes in the Social Security laws. While working as an actuary for the SSA, Shackleford introduced his popular gambling website, Wizardofodds.com, which took on a life of its own. In 2000 he left his government job to devote full time to the website and a consulting business for the gambling industry. Today he keeps busy with his website analyzing new casino games for game inventors, designing slot machines, teaching a casino math class at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and serving as a consultant to land-based and Internet casinos around the world. |
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