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| The Winner's Guide to Casino Gambling: Fourth Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Edwin Silberstang
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Category: Book
List Price: $16.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (11 reviews)
Sales Rank: 604245
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0805077650
Dewey Decimal Number: 795
EAN: 9780805077650
ASIN: 0805077650
Publication Date: April 1, 2005
Release Date: March 10, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
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 oddso a winning approach to thinking as a gambler, worth the cost of the entire book
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Silberstang Knows the Odds March 2, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I read Edwin Silberstang's book a long time ago and I am pleased that his analyses and ideas are still around. This man knows the math of the games and he also recommends usually good ways to play. He understands the gamblers too and knows that most of them are looking for "action" which is really just "more losses."
Any gambling library should have this book.
Author of Golden Touch Dice Control Revolution!
Excellent Overview of Casino Gambling with How to Help in Playing the Games January 13, 2007
The book is very well written, and easy to read. I enjoyed the Craps and the Baccarat section. It explains the house advantage of various games including Blackjack and some of the poker games to name a few. It includes most if not all Vegas games.
4th Ed, c.2005 still outdated - but techniques are solid November 10, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I live in New Mexico where you can't find a table with less than 5x odds on craps at the Indian Casinos. After years of marginal returns, my play is now much cleaner and profitable using Silberstang's techniques (play the line & Come, w/max odds). The dealers love when we arrive at the table. I play on the line for the dealers with 5x odds, along with my bets. (The energy is unmatched when there are at least 4 others at the table hoping you hit your point!). I've run into craps dealers and they confirm off the record that the propositional bets are pure profit "CHUMP" bets for the house.
My husband is a PhD mathematician and agrees with the statitics and odds stated in this well written book.
Accurate, but dated... September 28, 2003
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
As a casino dealer in Atlantic City I see people play stupid all the time. For the most part it is not because they are not intelligent, but they do not know how to play the games so the house has the lowest advantage over them. Siblerstang does an excellent job explaining how to play with the lowest house edge, but at the same time the book is a little outdated. It was only written in 1997, but in the craps section he talks about Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas as the only place to offer 10X odds in craps. Last time I checked 100X odds is not too hard to find in Vegas, and 5X odds is not to hard to find in Atlantic City. Even with that said the book is more than worth the money. The next time you gamble and stick with what the author says to do and you find yourself ahead more often than behind you will be happy you bought the book. (And remember that gambling is a negative expectation game: You will lose in the long run! Do not gamble with money that you cannot afford to lose!)
Five stars. May 26, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I purchased this book while attending a wedding in Las Vegas. I saw it in the hotel gift shop and did the touristy thing-- I bought a book about gambling in Las Vegas. I'm glad I did. Silberstang has written an easy to follow primer on the most common gambling games that you will find in a casino. His book covers the classic table games-blackjack, craps, roulette (both American and European versions), baccarat, and keno. He also explores recent casino additions-Caribbean Poker, Let It Ride, and video poker. Slot machines, casino operation, and credit are even discussed. Unlike some of the drivel I have read about gambling, Silberstang dispels some of the myths associated with gambling "systems." He clearly explains the games with examples, and gives the odds and demonstrates which bets favor the house (and by how much). This was an interesting and enlightening read.
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