This easy-to-read book quickly shows you how to understand and beat the game of craps. Written for beginners and experienced players, craps is described in clear terms to get you ready for the table. The best and worst bets at craps are thoroughly explained, along with clear explanations of the odds and the house advantage so that you can play like a pro. Winning strategies include the ins and outs of pass line bets, how to take advantage of multiple odds up to a hundred times, and other professional secrets. Additional topics include excellent advice on bankrolling, money management, credit, comps, and tipping. Illustrations.

This encyclopedic volume provides the rules and methods of play for more than 180 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'i (Go), Backgammon, Pachisi, and many others. Over 300 photographs and line drawings.

Discover The Gambling Secrets That Every Pro Knows The 21st-century casino is a high-tech, fast-paced world complete with its own peculiar language and rules. Do you know the difference between a "boxman" and "boxcars"? How about when to "scratch" and when to "stand," and what a "puck" is? (Hint: it has nothing to do with hockey.) In this updated, indispensable guide, gambling columnist and consultant Victor H. Royer reveals everything you need to know about modern gambling—from the terminology and slang that's integral to casino play to profiles of the new table games, slots, progressives, multi-link, multi-game, and video poker machines. Casino Gamble Talk provides all the tools you need to maximize your gaming enjoyment—and increase the odds in your favor. Discover: How to parlay like a pro New games and eTable games Valuable tips on novelty table games such as Let It Ride, Pai Gow Poker, and Caribbean Stud How to get "comps" (free rooms, food, and tickets to shows) Which games offer the best odds—and how to play them to your best advantage Insider secrets of classic casino games, such as Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Mini-Baccarat, and Big Board Keno And much, much more Here is an essential gambling resource that shows you how to have the most fun for the least amount of risk, and walk out a winner every time. 95,000 Words

Walk into any casino, and there is one section where the action is fast and furious. Players are whooping it up, and it sounds like one big party. You approach the area, and, squeezing through the crowd, you discover a long green felted table with a myriad of complex, confusing symbols. You hear voices, but while you can recognize the words, it seems they are in language you’ve never heard before – at least, you have no idea what they mean: “Eighter from Decatur,” “Six and one and you’re all done,” “It’s Little Joe,” and “Seven's a bruiser, the front line's a loser.” Does baby need a new pair of shoes? Of course, because you’re at a Craps Table, the most fun you can have in a casino. So many people pass this game by because of the perceived complexity and the unusual jargon, but Craps is really a very simple game to learn, and better yet – you can actually make some decent money by playing smart. And that’s what this book is all about. Yes, Craps is a game of chance, but the edge the casino has on many of the bets you’ll want to make are very small. A hot streak or two, and you can make some serious “spondulicks” Y’know, “Benjamins…Moolah.” Money. The ABC’s of Craps is designed for the beginning gambler who wants to learn how to play this classic casino game, and play it well.

The definitive guide to the best strategies at the gambling table-now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition Long recognized as the gambler's bible, The Winner's Guide to Casino Gambling has been completely revised and expanded to include new rules and strategies for every major game in the casino, including several popular new ones. This entirely updated fourth edition remains the most authoritative and comprehensive book in its field, bringing gambling expert Edwin Silberstang's professional secrets and expertise into the twenty-first-century casino. The Winner's Guide to Casino Gambling can literally replace a shelf full of guides to individual games-each chapter is a book of its own. Silberstang shows readers - the best strategies to beat multiple-deck blackjack, including simple but powerful card-counting methods - how to exploit the free-odds wager in craps to minimize the house edge - ways to win at the most popular video poker games - the secrets to the new casino games, such as Three Card Poker and Let It Ride® - what games to play where for the best odds o a winning approach to thinking as a gambler, worth the cost of the entire book

In this full-color guide, author and gambling expert Peter Svoboda reveals the casinos' best-kept secrets and helps you increase the odds of winning when playing the most popular games of chance.

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.

New expanded edition is a great first book for beginning players and a powerful winning tool for experienced ones as well. It includes complete coverage of blackjack, craps, slots, video poker, roulette, Caribbean Stud Poker, and Let it Ride. Using Cardoza's easy-to-follow advice, winning becomes both easy and fun at the same time. Includes casino basics and money management sections, and packed with charts and illustrations throughout for easy comprehension of all the winning strategies. 352 pages