How to Gamble If You Must

Author: Lester E. Dubins
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486780643
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
This classic of advanced statistics is geared toward graduate-level readers and uses the concepts of gambling to develop important ideas in probability theory. The authors have distilled the essence of many years' research into a dozen concise chapters. "Strongly recommended" by the Journal of the American Statistical Association upon its initial publication, this revised and updated edition features contributions from two well-known statisticians that include a new Preface, updated references, and findings from recent research. Following an introductory chapter, the book formulates the gambler's problem and discusses gambling strategies. Succeeding chapters explore the properties associated with casinos and certain measures of subfairness. Concluding chapters relate the scope of the gambler's problems to more general mathematical ideas, including dynamic programming, Bayesian statistics, and stochastic processes. Dover (2014) revised and updated republication of the 1976 Dover edition entitled Inequalities for Stochastic Processes. See every Dover book in print at www.doverpublications.com

How to Gamble If You Must

Author: Lester E. Dubins
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486796086
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
Revised and updated edition of the classic of advanced statistics. Uses concepts of gambling to develop important ideas in probability theory. "Strongly recommended." — Journal of the American Statistical Association. 2014 edition.

You Can Draw Anything

Author: Kim Gamble
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 174237798X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 51

Book Description
Gives instructions on using depth, perspective, shading and proportion in drawing animals, people, landscapes and nature.

Gamble to Win

Author: R. D. Ellison
Publisher: Lyle Stuart
ISBN: 9780818406270
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
A revolutionary new strategy reverses the house edge to a player advantage of seven percent.

Addiction by Design

Author: Natasha Dow Schüll
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691127557
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 457

Book Description
machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two. --

How to Make $100,000 a Year Gambling for a Living

Author: David Sklansky
Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9781880685167
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Is there really such a thing as a professional gambler? The answer is an unequivocal, "Yes!" This book's authors are but two examples. Many thousands of people around the country make a good living exclusively from gambling. It is not easy, but it can be done. The key is to understand which games are beatable and know how to beat them. David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth have spent many years writing about the finer points of poker, blackjack, and other beatable games. As you will see in the book, those other "games" are horses, sports, progressive slots and video poker, casino tournaments, and special promotions. They don't include craps, roulette, keno, or baccarat for reasons they'll explain. This book, was written for the not quite as experienced aspiring gambler. It shows you everything you need to learn and do if you want to gamble for a living from both the practical and the technical standpoints. The rest is up to you.

Winning Gambling Strategies

Author: Philip Nehrt
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 146853971X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Dedicated research on other systems and personal experimentation has turned a handful of notes into a comprehensive collection of potentially winning strategies. First and foremost, it is important to understanding that there is no winning system that can beat the mathematical odds that the casino has against a player. However, this book teaches you strategies to follow while in the casino, giving you a large amount of information to help you walk out a winner. These tips can benefit players of all experience levels. You will learn to think how the casino thinks, and avoid the traps they set for every player. Inside you will find the general rules for each of the main games, tips on how to approach a table, what to say to the dealers, how to handle your money, and especially a broad range of specific strategies, or "systems" for each of the games covered. This book makes the game and strategy information easy to understand and follow, as well as fun and enjoyable to read, with a bit of irreverant humor sprinkled throughout.

Gambling Theory and Other Topics

Author: Mason Malmuth
Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9781880685037
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
Absolutely must reading for all serious gamblers. Most people who gamble are basically attracted by the action and the excitement that this form of entertainment offers. But a small number of people are quite successful at it. How is this so? What helps these few to make decisions that devastate their opponents? And what do you need to do to become successful at this extremely challenging occupation? This text attempts to answer these questions. You will be introduced to the dynamic concept of non-self-weighting strategies and shown how these strategies apply not only at the "very exciting gaming tables" but in real life as well. In addition, risk and fluctuations are discussed in terms of the standard deviation and their relationship to each other and to your bankroll. Some of the other topics addressed are bankroll requirements, win-rate accuracy, free bets, which blackjack count is best, lottery fallacies, dangerous ideas, poker tournament strategies (including when it is correct to rebuy), settling up in tournaments, pai gow poker, super pan nine, the world's greatest gamblers, and building pyramids.

The Perfect Bet

Author: Adam Kucharski
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465098592
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
"An elegant and amusing account" of how gambling has been reshaped by the application of science and revealed the truth behind a lucky bet (Wall Street Journal). For the past 500 years, gamblers-led by mathematicians and scientists-have been trying to figure out how to pull the rug out from under Lady Luck. In The Perfect Bet, mathematician and award-winning writer Adam Kucharski tells the astonishing story of how the experts have succeeded, revolutionizing mathematics and science in the process. The house can seem unbeatable. Kucharski shows us just why it isn't. Even better, he demonstrates how the search for the perfect bet has been crucial for the scientific pursuit of a better world.

You Can't Lose Them All

Author: Sal Iacono
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 1538735342
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
In this informative and entertaining book, learn from Cousin Sal how not to gamble your life away -- along with many other life lessons -- so you don't have to learn the hard way. Over the last forty years, Cousin Sal has made bets with doctors, lawyers, teachers, agents, bookies, writers, comedians, radio DJs, tv producers, baseball players, front office executives, bandleaders, movie stars, publicists, weed lab owners, hedge fund operators, and even professional wrestlers. From his early days growing up in Brooklyn and Long Island flipping baseball cards to now hosting podcasts and TV shows and managing several offshore accounts we don't talk about, Cousin Sal has truly become the average American sports fan's go to source for gambling tips. So here's how not to do it . . . With hilarious tales of love and loss, winning and (a lot) of losing, crazy family and fatherhood, and a life saga that inspired the Phil Collins' song, "Against All Odds," Cousin Sal has now written THE Vegas super-system, MIT-algorithmic, sharp-approved book for how to gamble like a pro -- or at least not how not to go broke and lose your kids to Child Protective Services.