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The book is 300+ pages of meat and potatoes, no fluff. About 50 pages of the material is new, and the rest is distilled from the hundreds of essays the Mad Professor has written on craps and posted on dicesetter.com.

The essays have not been merely reproduced word for word; instead they have been professionally edited and integrated with each other so that the material flows as logically as if it were originally written for a book instead of for separate essays.

Various chapters cover the rules of craps, the grip, the throw, practicing, setting, betting, doing it in a casino, adapting to different tables, and creating shooting opportunities. Here are a few of the section titles: How Grip Tightness Affects Your Throw, The Dead-Cat Bounce, Power Throw vs Finesse Throw, Improving Your Consistency, Palm-Up Tossing and Forward Spin, Spin Control, One Inch at a Time, Building Muscle Memory, Understand Your Toss, Finding the Best Sets and Best Bets, Betting in Proportion to Your Advantage, Optimal Bet Size, Enthusiasm and Anxiety, Clean Hands, Ratholing, Practice After Playing, Short Tables, Conquering Microfiber, Seek Out Turbo Dice, and Stepping Up to the Big Leagues.

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Professional Blackjack by Stanford Wong

Professional Blackjack is 350 pages of card-counting advice for beginners to experts. It presents the high-low and the halves. The high-low is the best combination of simplicity and power, and probably is the most popular system used by card counters. Halves is a level-3 system that yields almost perfect estimates of your advantage, information you need to determine your optimal bet size.

The 1994 edition of Professional Blackjack contains 100 tables, not counting the tables in the appendixes. The tables give strategy index numbers for a variety of rules. The book also contains results of simulations for various sets of rules, so you can learn how valuable one rule is compared to another; for example, you can turn to page 185 and learn that to a card counter, double after split is about the same value as late surrender.

The book is chock full of information. For example, have you ever wondered how much expectation someone gives up by standing on sixteen against an eight? For single deck, page 315 tells you that the various two-card sixteens each lose at a rate of about 53% if you stand and 43% if you hit, so the cost is 10%. For six decks, page 331 tells you the numbers are 51% for standing versus 45% for hitting, so the cost is 6%.

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Casino Tournament Strategy by Stanford Wong

Tournaments are exciting -- your palms sweat even if the prize you are trying to win is no larger than an amount you are willing to bet on one hand of blackjack. Sometimes much larger amounts are involved; sometimes one card can make a difference of tens of thousands of dollars. Your competitors are the kind of people you choose for friends. Tournaments are so much fun that many blackjack players structure their casino trips around them.

Tournaments also involve skill. You constantly make decisions on how much to bet and whether to deviate from basic strategy, and frequently the best decision is not obvious. The best tournament players enjoy a large edge. You probably have read posts by H. E. Delmas and others discussing their tournament success -- how on average they win prizes of double or more of the amount of they pay in entry fees.

How did H. E. become a tournament expert? By studying a book and practicing. How can you become a tournament expert? By studying the same book H. E. studied, and practicing.

The 1997 edition is 352 pages. 150 pages are devoted to blackjack tournaments. Then come sections on crap tournaments, baccarat tournaments, keno tournaments, and horse tournaments. The major change in the 1997 edition is the addition of the horse tournament material from Betting Cheap Claimers. The price $29.95 plus shipping and handling $5.95 First Class Priority Mail

Millions of dollars are wagered on sports events each year. Most people give up a part of their bet to the house, while some "sharp" bettors actually turn a profit for themselves. Sharp Sports Betting by Stanford Wong is a revolutionary text on getting the edge over bookmakers. Much of this information has never before been seen in print.

Some important topics covered in this book are:

Money management - Proper money management lets you win more than if you simply make flat bets. Sharp Sports Betting explains when to bet more, and how much to bet.

Internet sports betting - The Internet has opened up the opportunity for people to bet on sports without visiting Nevada. Along with making bets on the Internet, there are many important things to know. How do you open an account? How do you get bonuses? What do you do if they are slow to pay you?

Parlays - Parlays are risky; you can lose faster or you can win faster than with straight bets. Sharp Sports Betting explains the mathematics behind parlays. It explains how to make parlays that give you an edge over bookmakers. It will help you answer questions like, "Should I parlay these two bets?" "Should I bet off-the-board or with a parlay card?" "A casino is offering 7:1 on a 3-team parlay. Is that good?"

Props - Do you ever bet on how many of something is going to occur, such as how many games your favorite team is going to win during the coming season, or how many field goals will be kicked during the Super Bowl? Sharp Sports Betting explains how to evaluate such prop bets to find the nuggets.

Historical NFL data - Have you ever wondered how frequently certain spreads are achieved? When you should buy a half point for a dime? How big a deviation you need from the posted spread to get an edge? When should you bet the money line instead of the spread? Sharp Sports Betting has the answers to all these and more. The 2006 printing has data through the 2005-2006 season.

NFL teasers - Since football points often come three or seven at a time, some final scores are more common than others. The sharp sports bettor can take advantage by making teaser bets. Sharp Sports Betting explains which teams to tease to get an edge over bookmakers.

And lots more…

If you are brand new to sports betting and want the basics on how to place bets and what the different information in a sports book means, Sharp Sports Betting gives the answers.

If you're a seasoned pro and want explanations of how to analyze the various betting options available in sportsbooks, Sharp Sports Betting has much essential but never-before-published information.

Stanford Wong has a habit of breaking new ground with the publication of his books. Professional Blackjack was the first text to describe "wonging," a blackjack card-counting technique that is standard practice for most card counters these days. Professional Video Poker was the first book to reveal that not only could you improve your odds at VP, you could even get the edge! Casino Tournament Strategy is the only book that explains the proper strategy for getting an edge in tournaments in blackjack, craps, and other casino games. Sharp Sports Betting is the newest edition of Stanford's legacy of breakthrough works.

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Wong on Dice is mostly material that does not appear in any other book on craps. Many of the topics have been discussed on the Craps page of BJ21.

Sample topics discussed in the book: how skillful shooters get an edge, how to practice efficiently, how to test yourself to know when you are ready to take on a casino, the four-item checklist I use on every toss of the dice, a logical way to choose which dice set to use, which bets to make, expected win rates, and the math of craps.

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Beat the Players

Casinos, Cops and the Game Inside the Game

by Bob Nersesian

This book should be read by everyone who sets foot in a casino: average casino patrons, skilled players, casino employees, and anyone else. It should be required reading for police officers, regulators, other public officials, and attorneys who may represent any of the aforementioned.

Bob Nersesian is an attorney who represents victims of casino wrongdoing against patrons. In an enjoyable writing style, he takes a look at the often too-cozy relationship between casinos, police, and regulators. He discusses specific cases and dispenses sound, practical advice that all patrons, casinos and public officials would be wise to heed. Cases discussed include Nevada and other jurisdictions.

Chapters include: Your Money or Your Liberty; Scary Cop Statements; They'll Take Your Liberty Anyway; Gaming Agents Speak; The Take of the State; Rules for Casino Patrons; Gambling at the Legal Limits; Cops Hate Card Counters; Griffin Investigations; Casinos Cheat With Impunity; A Judicial and Government Overlay; Finding a Nickel Brings Trouble; Names and Aliases; The Security Office and Surveillance Functions, and Casinos and Cops.

Appendices include Nevada Cheating and Detention Laws with Commentary; Other Nevada Gaming Laws of Interest; Gaming Cases of Interest, and Nevada Gaming Regulations with Commentary. The 320-page book includes a bibliography and an index.

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