Moore draws on his extensive experience as a criminal trial attorney, handling countless gambling cases, to explain betting concepts in easy-to-grasp terms. He uses amusing and memorable anecdotes to reveal the ideas that most successful bookmakers already know.

Berlin, 1939. An American tourist walks into the bar of the Adlon Hotel and offers, while under the influence, to bet that Germany and Russia will make common cause against Poland in the near future. The locals don’t buy such an outlandish prediction and eagerly accept his wager. Later that evening, the news comes over the radio that Germany and the USSR have just signed a nonaggression pact. Six years later, Professor Harry Gordon is still gambling, winning a quarter of a million dollars on a long shot at Belmont Park in New York and making steady profits on the stock market as well. He also seems to have acquired even more dangerous hobbies. When a prominent scientist goes missing in Mexico during a riot, he is eating at a restaurant down the street. When important documents disappear from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he is busy sending off tightly-packed envelopes to foreign embassies. When the CIA brings counterrevolution to Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, he happens to be watching from a nearby hill. As it turns out, the Professor is not content merely to observe events as historians usually do. He wants to play a role in manipulating them. Aided and abetted by an American draft dodger, an Australian pilot, and a former Soviet spy, the Professor works by devious routes to hammer into the public imagination the idea that there is a worse threat to the American way of life than mere Communism. And then, in the background, he quietly goes about increasing that threat by every means in his power. By 1968, France, Israel and Iran are forming a nuclear triumvirate that dominates the Mediterranean world. The United States is refocusing its foreign policy on a revival of the Monroe Doctrine. Southern Asia and China are balancing on the verge of the worst famine in centuries. Africa is in flames from Alexandria to Cape Town. The Soviet Union is depending on American resources in order to survive, and vice versa. In these circumstances, the Professor’s efforts to carve out an improved future for humanity appear to have failed. Any effect they may have had on history will be lost in the spreading patterns of conflict that are busy plunging nation after nation into internal strife. Or will it?

How do sportsbooks make their lines? Which types of bets are the best? Can you beat the house? The Logic Of Sports Betting answers all these questions and more with a dash of humor and a whole lot of real talk about how it all works. Peek behind the counter and learn how sportsbooks operate. Combine that insider knowledge with why-didn't-I-think-of-that sports betting logic, and you have the winning formula. Ed Miller is a best-selling (over 300,000 copies sold) author of books on poker and gambling. This is his first book on sports betting, but maybe his favorite book to write so far. Matthew Davidow is a sports modeler, using proprietary methods to beat major sports betting markets for over 15 years, and co-founding two leading private sports analytics firms along the way. What people are saying about The Logic Of Sports Betting "Matt and Ed are two of the smartest minds in sports betting." - Rufus Peabody, professional sports bettor "As a sportsbook employee for 30-plus years, I find it difficult to read or watch anything about sports betting. But I could not put The Logic Of Sports Betting down. It's that good." - Robert Walker, Las Vegas bookmaker

Theodore ‘’Tully’’ Greenwood is a man with an enormous ego. He believed he was a great father, great employee and union brother, great lover and above all, a great bettor who loved to win money betting on sporting events with a local Milwaukee bookkeeper. He was so successful at winning money that the Mob boss, who headed the betting operation, sent his estranged wife to bait Greenwood into a sexual encounter. Hours later Greenwood and the Mob boss’s wife are taken to a hunting cottage where they are shot and killed. Greenwood’s body was covered with a tarp behind the cottage and wasn’t found for about two months. And hour after the funeral ended Greenwood’s spirit woke up on his bed with his guardian angel sitting in a chair looking right at him. Tully is escorted to Heaven’s front door by the guardian angel. An entrance counselor reviews Tully’s life with him and determines his entrance assignment is to meet a number of souls already in Heaven. Tully is taught the importance of change for the better, or bettor, in order to make it all the way into Heaven.

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