If you are new to blackjack, this book will save you many hours of trying to memorize tables and charts contained in longer books. Braids provides an illustrated easy to use guide to casino play, with two simple logical rules for quickly reasoning the correct play of any hand. Also his explanation of card counting is the clearest I've ever read. I now understand the underlying logic behind the many counting systems out there. You will find blackjack strategies much less confusing after reading this book.

This book gets right to the point and does a great job of explaining the rules and playing procedures for casino games. Really readable and easy to understand.

I recommend highly this book as I find it to be excellently written. It has a great tour guide for each Indian casino and a great one page summary for each casino. It makes you want to take the complete tour. It also has a good introduction and history on the Indians which my wife really enjoys.

This is an epistolary novel. Dumas is in jail waiting to be sentenced for manslaughter. His lawyer tells the 15 year old that he might be able to avoid prison if he can make the judge understand why he was involved in a gunfight at a poker table. The tale of this refugee from a Mississippi orphanage is wonderfully writ, with the yellowed eye of a poolroom habitue.

No baloney in this book. gets right ot the facts and gives you a simple plan to cut the house edge and get the edge yourself.

This book covers absolutely EVERY angle of texas hold'em. A must for anyone wanting to improve their poker skills. I've read many books on hold'em and this book incorporates all of the other books into one title. I highly recommend for all poker players.

Even though I'm not old enought to go to a casino, I probably know more about gambling than most people. This book is great because it introduces you to games you didn't know how to play, the odds of all the games, and lots of different strategies. There are over 120 bets on the craps table! Also it gives you insight to gambling in other countries and real advice from the author's personal experience. The author also provides you with lots of trivia you can amaze your friends with. Such as the most bingo cards played at one time was 346 when there were 30 second intervals between the calling of each number. If you want to learn a little about all the games, this book is for you, if you are an expert, you would still love the trivia! This is a must buy for everyone.

Very well organized for report writing offering many points of view and a well laid out historical perspective. No illustrations in this book but will recommend it for students from the 7th grade level up. Also recommended for parents and teachers.

Gambling has been a hot issue in nearly every state today. Gambling interests tell your state legislature that legalized gambling will bring jobs, revenue, and prosperity for all. John Eidsmoe does an outstanding job destroying all the flimsy claims of gambling advocates by pointing out such factors as gambling addiction, bankruptcy, cruelty to animals in pari-mutuel betting, how gambling preys upon the lower class as a regressive form of taxation. The book also tells about how gambling at the least does nothing for a state economy, at the worst it hurts businesses. Most importantly is the fact that gambling is linked to organized crime and the mob's insiduous tactics to subterfuge legal gambling operations. This book is well written and detailed, yet an easy read for anyone who wonders what as to how gambling would do to their community. It should be required reading for all state legislators who are struggling with the gambling issue in their state.

betting, you cant beat the action. I have above average intelligence, but I had no common sense when it came to betting. No discipline, no money management and no sense. This book was jumping out before me. the skies opening up. A hundred scratches of the head and a thousand oh yeahs. Changed my life. Follow the tenants of the book to the letter of the law. Be a fanatic and never deviate and then you just might have a opprotunity at being a winner. Without this book, there is no opprotunity. NOw being smart is as easy as bookwork. I own a comfortable life due to Lem Banker and to playing backgammon where the laws of probabilites cant be argued.