2 comments about Casino Gambling: Play Like a Pro in 10 Minutes or Less.

1. Frank Scoblete's new book is just so much fun to read! He has compiled the greatest record wins and losses of the great gambelrs and told their stories with great humor. There are excellent strategies in the book and all of them can be learned like the title says in 10 minutes or less. I loved his history of casino gambling too. This is a must-read gambling book.



2. This book has great strategies. It also has some of the greatest inside stories of all time.

3 comments about Blackjack Basic (Playing) Strategy, 1 Deck.

1. Las Vegas has a saying, "players depend on luck, casinos depend on math". Well, here's your chance to almost even those odds to within 1/2%. These blackjack strategy cards (all 4 for 1, 2, or 4-8(2) decks) do the math for you and stretch your money a long, long way. You will get your money back in the first hour of play and wish you had had them a long time ago. If you play blackjack, this is the one item you should take with you. And you don't even have to think, pretty nice ugh.



2. These four basic strategy cards fit in your shirt pocket yet contain everything you need to optimize your odds under virtually all table conditions. Cards work for 1, 2, and 4-8 deck games covering most variations of house rules. Give yourself the best chance to beat the casino. Use these cards and experience how much fun blackjack can be when you play like the pros.



3. Cards were as described, excellent quality and recommended for those lesrning BJ basic strategy. A great help. I also recommend Patrick's book and DVD "Blackjack for the 21st Century", A newer look at basic strategy with an eye to "minimizing losses", as he says. Great!

2 comments about Phar Lap: A True Legend.

1. This book has great pictures and some basic facts about the great Phar Lap but it's really geared for kids. If you are an adult you may find it a bit lacking.



2. While I did appreciate the details and the statistics provided by this book, as well as all the great photographs and period advertisements; it reads like a book report. Its a summary of some very good stuff, but it's written such that it never really really drew me into the book.

1 comments about 1,000 to 1!: Claiming, Breeding and Racing Thoroughbreds on a Shoestring-and Beating the Odds.

1. There is an adage in Thoroughbred racing that to become a millionaire in the sport, one must start out as a multi-millionaire. Simply, aim high and be prepared to lose serious cash while trying to hit the long homer with a special runner.
   
   Well, that scenario is not always the case. Though the book title is a bit sensational, author Malcolm Barr, Sr. provides advice for those wishing to get into the game, but have practical dreams to compete at the local track.
   
   The claiming route is the way that even some of the top owners initially started their stables. Claiming races are the mainstay at the tracks. They are races where any horse can be bought at a specific price, which may be a few thousand dollars or much higher, depending upon the quality of the event & racer.
   
   A claim form is filled out before the race and - no matter what happens in the race - the individual will be the new owner. If more than one document is turned in for a racer, track officials will hold a drawing to determine the winning claim tag.
   
   It is the easiest way to jump into the sport because the new owner now has a proven runner that can stay in training and race, instead of taking a young Thoroughbred and needing months or maybe years for the proper preparation to possibly get to the races.
   
   For example, champion dirt and turf racer Lava Man was claimed in 2004 by a new owner for $50,000 and has earned more than $4.6 million in purse winnings, the majority coming after the ownership change.
   
   Now that was a 1,000-to-1 claim, but Barr, Sr. describes how planning a budget and developing a good plan can put the odds in an owner's favor by claiming a racer or getting into the breeding side of the sport. The book is also interesting for fans who are seeking information about these important aspects of racing.
   
   The Thoroughbred is essentially a sports franchise that eats, trains and can get injured, oftentimes with severe consequences. And the track is a business that is sometimes unforgiving for even the best plan that is on paper.
   
   But if you want to get involved in the sport, why not be the one who will beat the odds?

4 comments about Betting the Kentucky Derby: How to Wager and Win on America's Biggest Horse Race.

1. I could have written this book in a half and hour ... and since you clicked on a horse racing book, so could you! Very, very, very basic stuff and I'm sure you already know almost all of it. I am a gigantic Daily Racing Form fan (the publication and some of their other books) so this isn't a smear review. Use that $10 or $15 you were considering on using for this book for your wagers at the track.



2. This book was a complete waste of money and time. It took about an hour to read and was almost all fluff. The author used plenty of statistical data but never explained how and why to use it. He left the interpretation of the data up to the reader. A typical example of this would be: "Look at all the Beyer figures below. Do you see a pattern?" Uh, no, not really. Every single chapter was like this. I bought this book in hopes of gleaning a little insight into the upcoming Derby. What a mistake that was. Save your time and money and don't make the same mistake I made. Pass on this one.



3. I picked this up to see if it had any different approaches to handicapping the Derby. The author seems genuine in wanting to help someone select a horse and make a wager on it. If you are looking for a basic book on handicapping the Derby, check it out.



4. Once again, new book with nothing new. Don't let the title fool you. This book does not tell you how to bet on the Derby. It simply rehashes old information. What a giant disappointment!

5 comments about Powerful Profits From Blackjack (Powerful Profits Series).

1. I have all the blackjack books. While the mathematics are usually sound, and the theory is always accurate..these books never did what was most important....TURN ME INTO A WINNER!

   I requested my yearly statement back from the Grand for 2003 and they show me at a net loss of $105. Thats for the ENTIRE year! Now consider that I always hide Green Chips and Black chips whenever possible before cashing in at the table to conceal my true winnings, and consider the 33 night of free hotel stays, the endless free meals, the free shows, the free trips on the casino plesure boat etc. and I was a BIG winner in 2003! My first winning year ever.

   I owe all of that to Victor's Blackjack book. He offers a method of play that will actually allow you to win without counting cards, without risking getting barred from the casino, and without all of the mathematics involved in the card counting strategy.

   The wagering differential is the most amazing concept I have ever seen. I logged most of my play from 2003...I shoudl have logged it all, but I didn't. But from my records I only had 3 losing sessions in 2003 at the Grand.

   What more can I say. This book pays for itself.




2. I don't know what the other reviewers are smoking, but this is one of the worst Blackjack books I have read. Might as well take your 10 or 15 dollars and just throw it away. This book is almost 100% just random babbling, all words and no numbers. A HUNDRED AND NINETY PAGES INTO THE BOOK, BASIC STRATEGY IS THE ONE AND ONLY THING HE HAS ACTUALLY COVERED. I was disgusted when I looked at the page number and saw 190, realizing all this idiot had done was talk about what he was going to teach for over half of the entire book. He stretches five word sentences into page and a half long explanations to fill up space, and he does it quite well. This book is ridiculously stupid, I STRONGLY suggest reading almost any other book.



3. 
   My comment is not only about this great Blackjack book, but also about the reviewer identified as "munkmunk." All readers of that person's review of this book, or any other, should take note of what he says in the opening line to his review of "Playing Blackjack as a Business," by L. Revere, also posted here at Amazon. In that review, titled by "munkmunk" as "Sexist, thief, egomaniac?", the first line of his review says:
   
   "Not being "of age," and therefore not playing in a casino, I cannot say how much money one could make with these strategies."
   
   By his own admission, "munkmunk" is not of legal age to gamble. Therefore he is unable to understand the real world of the casino, and how and why strategies in this book, and the other by L. Revere, are applicable to those environments. Being so obviously out of touch with the reality of the world of Blackjack play in the casino, since by his own admission he cannot so legally play there being too young, this makes it plainly obvious that this young person merely has some anger of his own to grind, and seems to enjoy lambasting good books and the hard work by their authors. Amazon should perhaps be more careful, and not allow underage persons to so shamefully misunderstand books of these adult subjects.
   
   Additionally, we should all remember that the real world of the in-casino blackjack play is nothing like the "theoretical" world of the statistician, or mathematician. Furthermore, we should also understand that the minds of the very young often cannot grasp realities in either the "theoretical" or the "real world," and thus have significantly skewed opinions on something whose intended purposes obviously escape them, and whose principles are far too advanced for their undeveloped minds to as yet conceive.
   
   It should be obvious to everyone reading these reviews by the young "munkmunk" that they are a form of teenage angst, sadly directed at the authors of these good books on Blackjack.
   
   This book is a serious work about a serious subject, and extraordinarily well written -- but it is written for adults who will play in real casinos -- and not for angry children with a computer and nothing better to do than to express their ignorance in a public forum like these postings at Amazon.
   
   Read this book for yourself, and you will know why the other reviewers, including myself, have found this to be such a terrific, fresh, new look at a great old game.



4. 
   This book by Victor H. Royer is one of a great books about Blackjack. If you are serious about knowing the real truth of what Blackjack is all about, then you must have this book.
   
   Here you will find not only a terrific history of this great game, but you will find invaluable information about how the game is actually played in the casinos of the 21st Century. What you may have heard about Blackjack in the past, or perhaps read as recently as the last century, is no longer the case. What you see on TV about the various Blackjack card counting systems is also no longer possible under the majority of situations and circumstances, such as are the real truth of the modern casino.
   
   What you should know is Royer's tiered wagering method, and his new Modified Basic Strategy - MBS. If you want to give yourself the right chance to win money, then this is the book for you. It will pay for itself many times over in just your first trip to a casino.



5. Gambling is an iffy proposition without some real knowledge. To learn one must play 100 times (+) and hope that LUCK is in the house or things can get depressin real fast or one can go to the source of knowledge. This book teaches the unitiated some fundamentals and strategies with wich to approach the table with a fair amount of confidence and with the right bankroll, for they say that without the proper amount of cash you are bracing yourself for defeat. Mr. Royer strikes as one of the good guides, he certainly knows his subject and his overall writing is quite enjoyable. After reading Mr. Royer's book I went to Las Vegas (my favorite!) and put into practice what I had learned from this book. I had my bearings about me and it lasted the better of 2 solid hours, in which in a 5 dollar table with the right conditions (Favoring the Player as much as possible, but of course!!)I won 185 dollars, after having lost and won my fair share of both. The point I am making is that without the book I definitely would have lost much more and not won anything. I gave him 5 stars for 4 did not quite do the job.
   I walked out a winner and realized that this is something I am actually enjoying. I always favored dices but Blackjack is a lot of fun!

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1 comments about The Oxford Guide to Card Games (Oxford Guides).

1. There are many books describing the rules of card games, but this is the only book that explains why the rules are what they are. David Parlett's text winds through the intriguing history of card games. From early gambling games to modern contract bridge, this book explains why we play what we play. This book is for anyone who ever wanted to know where the jokers came from or what all those suit symbols meant. A great gift for the game players in your family.

2 comments about Blackjack for Winners.

1. The author gives a different approach to winninng at blackjack. Scott Frank presents the CORE System to counting cards in an easy to understand way. I really enjoyed the book and found Scott's theories to be helpful. I used the strategy in Vegas and actually won.



2. excellent book, very interesting system.

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