Mitchell has done it again with best bets and best strategies. I learned some new games like pai-gow poker, roulette techniques, and sports betting from this new book plus new information on the five best bets from first book. Plus world travellers will love the Worldwide Casino Travelogue included in this book. I did not know there were casinos in Asia, Africa, Australia, etc Mitchell tells you about them with lots of information plus Las Vegas bests and telephone directory. Another winner that teaches "intelligent gambling".

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This book goes a little deeper than just a look at a few casinos in Nevada. The emphasis is on the 1931 to 1981 period, and casino owners are looked at - not just as owners, but as people, why they came to Nevada, and why they thrived. The photos are terrific - with almost 50 that are from the 1930's and 1940's. Easy, and fun reading.

This 1973 book has a lot of the same strategies as Oswald Jacoby's 1970 classic. The book is in easy-to-use lessons and tracks four sample games through early, middle, and end games. There are special lessons on back games, end games, and other miscellaneous situations. Novices and average players will learn a lot from this book. Unfortunately the advice on opening rolls and their replies is now obsolete as is the doubling lesson. If you're looking for a short book so that you can learn the fundamentals in a hurry, this may be the one.

Mark Cramer, The Odds on Your Side (Cynthia Publishing, 1990)

Widely regarded as the definitive book on setting an odds line in your Thoroughbred handicapping, and for good reason. Cramer, who's authored a number of excellent handicapping tomes, spends a couple of hundred pages on the concept of value and how to achieve it. His greatest strength is his simple asserion, backed up with a number of examples, that there is no mechanical formula to be used; it's different for every race. He illustrates handicapping as art, rather than the handicapping-as-science approach used by many other books. Definitely a work that belongs in the bookshelf of every horseplayer, casual or serious. **** 1/2

This volume summarizes the work of some of the nation's leading social scientists who spent a year and a half studying problem and pathological gambling. This even-handed presentation cuts through the myths and misconceptions surrounding this field and provides a welcome relief from the emotional rhetoric that often accompanies discussions of gambling disorders. The authors are extremely critical of much of the research done in this field and are particularly careful to remind the reader of what cannot be said given the current state of knowledge as well as what we do know. As with any field of study, research done since publication has already made some portions of this book outdated, but for anyone seriously interested in pathological gambling, this is the place to start.

This book covers craps, blackjack, discipline, casinos, and money management offering tips and tricks to winning. The craps section is excellent although it covers only three bets extensively and the blackjack section is good for the beginner but, not great. Also covered is the Gollehon Imperial Method for playing. This method appears to work with single deck games, but may have too much rounding for the serious player looking for an accurate card count. A recommended read for beginners. Advanced players can probably skip this one.

This book has many superb color photographs of various pinball machines and bagatelles. There is a bit of information about the history of pinball but it won't take you long to read it all. This book is best used for picture reference of some popular pinball machines.

A linebacker with a brilliant college record sees his hopes for a career in professional football totter and his team's season threatened when he is implicated in a gambling scandal. This is a believable book with a sensitive subject that is timely even today. An easy to read book that should not have gone out of print.

Among serious amateurs, semi-professional and professional players, David Sklansky is THE author to read.

"Poker, Gaming and Life" is collection of articles that have appeared in "Card Player" and similar specialist magazines during the 1990s. The bulk of them are on poker, and reading them one is reminded that Sklansky almost invented the serious, logical, and carefully reasoned approach to the game based on statistics and probablity. An entire generation of winning players has been the result, changing poker forever.

Sklansky isn't a great writer, and his style suffers from too much passive voice. But every essay is well thought out, and his conclusions hard to dispute. Since the pieces are almost all short, this book is somewhat easier to read than his full length treatments of specific games.

The last section finds the author in a more relaxed mood, as he tries to apply some of the mathematical and statistical principles of poker to more general "life" topics.

One small criticism - some of the articles and examples apply to games that were once common in public cardrooms, but for one reason or another have all but disappeared now. For a younger player unfamiliar with Jacks or better draw poker, or Razz, this can be a little confusing.

Its hard to imagine any David Sklansky book that won't improve your poker - this one, although not essential, should provide some thoughtful and informative reading.