{"id":843270,"date":"2023-09-25T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T20:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=843270"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:18:26","slug":"gambling-102-3rd-edition","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/products\/gambling-102-3rd-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling 102 &#8211; 3rd Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"bios\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3JbfCjO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-609763\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Amazon_button1.png?resize=100%2C30&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/th>\n<th><a href=\"http:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/id6470056767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-609763 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iBooks_button1.png?resize=100%2C30&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/th>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/gambling-102-michael-shackleford\/1112547677?ean=2940186202264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-609763 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nook_button1.png?resize=100%2C30&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"p1\">Plenty of gambling books explain how to play the games; that\u2019s Gambling 101.\u00a0<i>Gambling 102<\/i>\u00a0takes you to the next stage, playing in the best way with the least amount of effort. Quick chapters (some as brief as two or three pages) cut right to the heart of each of nearly two dozen\u00a0games, providing you with, first, an assessment of the odds you face, and second, the basic strategies you need to lower them as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When should I raise in Three Card Poker? How will reduced juice affect my sports-betting results? And, of course, how do I pick the best blackjack game and video poker machine? Best of all, this revised and updated third edition contains three brand new chapters on what the Wizard calls &#8220;vulturing&#8221; slot machines that can be beaten when playing conditions present a player advantage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Gambling 102\u00a0<\/i>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 guides you to the best ways to approach games of chance, then\u00a0<i>Gambling 102<\/i>\u00a0is the book for you.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"bios\">About The Author<\/h4>\n<table class=\"bios\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Michael Shackleford<\/strong> 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Michael Shackleford, the gambling world\u2019s \u201cWizard of Odds,\u201d covers all the casino games \u2014 from baccarat to video poker and craps to the new beatable slots \u2014 and provides the best strategies that are easy to understand and implement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":843271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_cat":[51,35,8,52,30,440,1918,378],"product_tag":[148,149,199,556,1731,1730,195,257,261],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/843270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=843270"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=843270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}