Author Steven Kolb's goal is to educate horse players, new and older about the intricacies of horse racing. This podcast is on the Belmont Stakes, upcoming in June, giving you his read on the horses running and who he believes you should look at for study if you are planning to bet this race.

Why is there a twelve on the cover of this blackjack book instead of the usual twenty-one? No blackjack author in their right mind would put a hand of twelve on the cover. Glen Wiggy did-he is full of surprises like that. Part how-to manual, part memoir, 1536 Free Waters and Other Blackjack Endeavors-Finding Profit and Humor in Card-Counting chronicles Wiggy's amusing experiences while playing blackjack during more than eight hundred casino visits from January 2001 until June 2008. It also introduces blackjack card-counting in a fun and easy-to-learn format. In addition to the everyday casino patrons, starving puppies, angry pit bosses, French doughnuts, talking sea gulls, and 1536 bottled waters make unforgettable appearances in these entertaining stories tailored for casual blackjack gamblers. For players pursuing the game for serious profit, Wiggy also presents practical tips on; Aspects of blackjack basic strategy; Fundamentals of card-counting; Techniques for managing money; Dangers of greedy gambling behavior Unlike most blackjack strategy guides, 1536 Free Waters and Other Blackjack Endeavors won't teach you how to "kill" the dealer or make a living playing the game. Instead, you'll learn basic strategy and introductory card-counting skills that give you enough confidence to approach the table with a positive attitude and reasonable expectation of winning. Plus, you'll learn what to expect from the cards and the wonderfully strange people and places you may encounter. Enjoy the ride. "Undoubtedly, the most enjoyable blackjack book I've read in my twenty years as the editor of a gambling publishing company. It had me laughing out loud". -Deke Castleman, editor for Huntington Press

 About the Author: Glen Wiggy was born in Midwest City, Oklahoma, in 1966. His father is a retired golf professional. His mother, before her death in 2007, was a housewife and mother of six children. Glen graduated from the United States Air Force Academy-Class of '88, first class with refrigerators-and spent a twenty-year career as an Air Force officer. While on active-duty, he served as a Security Police Shift Commander, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, and Scientific Analyst. In June 2008, Glen retired from the Air Force and worked as a Department of Defense contractor at Task Force 134, Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq, performing research and analysis in support of detainee operations. In June 2009, he settled in the Colorado Springs area and currently works as a government civilian at United States Northern Command. He is also an online statistics instructor with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Glen is married with two children and three grandchildren. Besides card-counting at blackjack, his hobbies include golf and snow skiing. He has a BS in mathematics from the Air Force Academy, an MBA from Boston University, and an MS in mathematics from the University of Arizona. Glen Wiggy blogs on www.blackjackstories.com

In this episode Sol and Howard talk about what is in the DVD and how to use the information. There is enough information given by Sol to the listerners that some of it can be used right away.Your Maximizing Craps DVD comes with everything you need to play craps to the fullest. Maximize your winnings. Maximize your fun. Order your copy today. A full-length professionally produced DVD that explains step-by-step how to improve your game. A chapter-by-chapter explanation of the craps system that will improve your winnings, extend your playing fun and tell you when to walk away. A handy wallet card outlining all your bets. A colorful, fully annotated DVD jacket chock full of helpful information. A link to our website to post questions, reviews and comments.

Our Craps Strategy

Maximizing Craps is the one craps system that will both maximize your winnings and maximize your fun. This is a time-tested system that has been developed and refined over more than 50 years of gambling. Individuals who have used this amazing system reported that they win an average of 80% of the time. Here are a few of the things you will learn from our simple to follow DVD:

1)  Learn how to set a craps gambling budget and stick with it.
2) Learn how to form a betting strategy that will maximize your winnings.
3) Learn how to pick the right casino.
4) Learn how to pick the right table.
5) Learn how and when to up your betting.
6) Learn how to play 100-to-1 casinos.
7) Learn how to play regular odds casinos.
8) Learn how to determine the amount of your first bet and where to place it.
9) Learn how to determine the amount of your second bet.
10) Learn how to determine the amount of your third bet.
11) Learn what to bet if a 7 or 11 comes up on the first roll of the dice.
12) Learn when and why to decrease your betting.
13) Learn when to walk away.
14) Learn how to maximize your fun.

Jude is a Las Vegas casino dealer who barely survived the deadly MGM fire in 1980. More than two decades later, he’s still dealing, a tired, middle-aged man, divorced, struggling with debt, and trying to be a good father to his children. Then he loses his job and his car is totaled in an accident. When an attractive woman friend offers to help him get another job, Jude is happy to go along. Gradually, he realizes that his new job is part of an elaborate scheme to cheat a casino and that his own fate and that of his children depend on his finding the courage and ingenuity to extricate himself.

Cold Deck is the exciting story of an ordinary man who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. Moving from Las Vegas mean streets to the insider’s world of casino workers, this is a story of survival set against the greed, fears, and glitz of Sin City.

H. Lee Barnes is a former Green Beret and Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a deputy sheriff, private investigator, and casino dealer. He currently teaches English and creative writing at the Community College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. He is the author of three short story collections, another novel, a memoir, and a nonfiction book about casino workers. His short fiction has received the Willamette Fiction Award and the Arizona Authors Association Fiction Award, and in 2009, he was elected to the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.

H. Lee Barnes is a former Green Beret and Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a deputy sheriff, private investigator, and casino dealer. He currently teaches English and creative writing at the Community College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. He is the author of three short story collections, another novel, a memoir, and a nonfiction book about casino workers. His short fiction has received the Willamette Fiction Award and the Arizona Authors Association Fiction Award, and in 2009, he was elected to the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.

Can you really make money playing slot machines? Peter Liston, otherwise known as the Slot King has done just that, turning $500 into millions over the past eighteen years.

For the first time, Peter reveals the secrets that have turned him from a high school teacher into a globe-trotting professional gambler doing what is considered to be impossible ・playing the slot machines as a business.

Share with Peter as he cracks the code to the slots, tests the theories in his local slot venues, then exploits that winning knowledge in hotels, clubs and casinos around the world.

PeterListon has appeared in television and radio interviews in U.S.A., Australia and U.K.

 Peter  is the world's leading authority on advantage slot machine play. A former high school teacher and a member of Mensa, Peter used his mathematical skills to establish a system of beating the slots in 1994. He started with $500 and turned it into millions of dollars, exploiting linked progressive jackpots in Australasia, Asia, North America and Africa.  He appeared on the ZKK British television documentary "The World's Greatest Gambling Scams" as well as on current affairs television and radio interviews in Australia and Las Vegas. Peter is based in Melbourne, Australia but frequently travels to casinos around the world looking for the best slot jackpots. He is also consulting, teaching and writing about advantage slot play. 

Risk of Ruin is about Bart Black, a professional gambler-biker-tattoo-artist who becomes obsessed with an underage stripper who believes she's God.
It's a story of rebellion, crime, and passion that attempts to answer a question that has tormented gambling men since Adam placed an all-in bet on Eve: Is she worth the risk?

Arnold Snyder, more noted as an a professional gambler and author of numerous blackjack books (The Big Book of Blackjack and Blackbelt in Blackjack among them) as well as poker (The Poker Tournament Formula and The Poker Tournament Formula 2) and has ventured into the (under)world of topless clubs in Las Vegas. Titled Sin City Advisor's Topless Vegas (Episode 51).

From the Author

Risk of Ruin is my first novel--or at least, the first novel I'm willing to put my name on. Years ago, I used to write pseudonymous and anonymous hack fiction--two cents a word stuff. Risk of Ruin is my apology to all the trees that have died through the years for the terrible books I used to write.

What I really wanted to do with this book was violate the common genre formulas I was once forced to adhere to, while at the same time creating a moving love story, a cop drama, a paranormal romance, a porno potboiler, and an adventure story. To accomplish this, I started by creating main characters that violate the requirements for the protagonists of any of the popular fiction genres.

Take Bart, my protagonist/hero. He's five-foot-two and always broke. He's dirty, in the sense of grimy. (He works part-time as a hack motorcycle mechanic, when he's not in Reno trying to make money on a professional blackjack team.) He's a high school dropout, uses crude language, has satanic tattoos up and down both arms and a Napoleonic superiority complex. He rides a chopped Harley. A fun night for Bart is going to a bar that has a wet t-shirt contest and spraying water on the women who are competing, because that's about as close as he's going to get to a relationship with a woman and he knows it. He's not a person you'd ever care to hang out with, and he definitely would not be cast in the role of protagonist/hero in any genre of novel that I know of.

As for Stacy, the love interest: When she meets Bart, she's sixteen years old (he's 43) and she's a runaway working as a dancer in a nude strip club, a job she got using fake ID. Her superiority complex is even greater than Bart's, as she believes she's God. Literally. Even though Stacy is leggy, blond and beautiful, there is no genre of novel that would have this character as the hero's love interest.

So, writing this book was a challenge. My task was to make Bart into a real hero, someone the reader would be rooting for, while making Stacy a person he could really love. Violating the norms of genre fiction forced me to create a story so compelling that the physical, emotional, psychological and social flaws of the characters become irrelevant.

our Maximizing Craps DVD comes with everything you need to play craps to the fullest. Maximize your winnings. Maximize your fun. Order your copy today. A full-length professionally produced DVD that explains step-by-step how to improve your game. A chapter-by-chapter explanation of the craps system that will improve your winnings, extend your playing fun and tell you when to walk away. A handy wallet card outlining all your bets. A colorful, fully annotated DVD jacket chock full of helpful information. A link to our website to post questions, reviews and comments.

Our Craps Strategy

Maximizing Craps is the one craps system that will both maximize your winnings and maximize your fun. This is a time-tested system that has been developed and refined over more than 50 years of gambling. Individuals who have used this amazing system reported that they win an average of 80% of the time. Here are a few of the things you will learn from our simple to follow DVD:

1. Learn how to set a craps gambling budget and stick with it.
   2) Learn how to form a betting strategy that will maximize your winnings.
   3) Learn how to pick the right casino.
   4) Learn how to pick the right table.
   5) Learn how and when to up your betting.
   6) Learn how to play 100-to-1 casinos.
   7) Learn how to play regular odds casinos.
   8) Learn how to determine the amount of your first bet and where to place it.
   9) Learn how to determine the amount of your second bet.
   10) Learn how to determine the amount of your third bet.
   11) Learn what to bet if a 7 or 11 comes up on the first roll of the dice.
   12) Learn when and why to decrease your betting.
   13) Learn when to walk away.
   14) Learn how to maximize your fun.

Do you want to learn how to become a winning no limit hold'em player? Ashley Adams, an experienced author and winning cash game player, has written his new book, Winning No-Limit Hold'em, A Practical Guide to Beating Low Buy-in Cash Games, for you. Whether you are a complete beginner or an intermediate player already competing, but losing, in the typical low limit version of the game, Winning No-Limit Hold'em gives you the practical knowledge you need to beat the game. Ashley Adams has done for hold'em what he has already done for 7-card stud in his highly acclaimed and top selling book Winning 7-Card Stud. He's taken a very complicated subject -- beating the typical low limit no limit hold'em game -- and made it simple and easy to learn. The book is broken up into simple, concise chapters that cover every topic necessary to go from beginner to winner. Such chapters include: LEARNING THE BASICS -- a simple explanation of the basics of betting and the language of poker , A BASIC STRATEGY of the game so you'll be able to sit down and start playing with confidence and limited risk, FIRST TIME IN A CASINO -- a primer on how to play poker easily and confidently in public poker rooms, as well as chapters on odds, tournament play, deception, tells, reading opponents, and improving your game. Each chapter ends with a quiz -- so you'll be able to test your poker knowledge you have to bet on it. So if you want to learn how to play -- or if you know the basics but haven't yet been able to consistently win -- Winning No Limit Hold'em is the book for you.

Ashley Adams has the rare ability to explain poker concepts accurately and clearly, which is why each of his books are gems of the rarest kind. His books are easy to follow and easy to understand. When you read this book a second time, you'll gain a deeper understanding of what it takes to be a winning poker player. And when you read Adams a third time which you really should do you ll find yourself well along the road to mastering poker concepts and becoming a favorite in your local game. Because Adams will teach you more than most of your opponents know, all you have to do is apply his teachings whenever you play. It ll work. I guarantee it. Lou Krieger --Lou Krieger

This Ashley Adam s book is comprehensive and easy to understand. Sure, it breaks new ground by tackling the neglected garden of lower-limit hold em. But, in truth, most of the powerful concepts and advice on these pages are profitable in larger games and gardens, too. Buy it! Mike Caro, the Mad Genius of Poker --Mike Caro 

Bi-Count Blackjack is for serious Blackjack players. It's a  system of card-counting that lets the player track 36 cards from a deck with ease while telling the player how best to play out each hand. Multiple deck play will actually add to the players advantage.It is superior to plus/minus card-counting systems with running counts that are virtually impossible to follow and with betting patterns that give you away as a counter as well. It provides a wealth of information which will change the way you play your game. With Bi-Count Blackjack you are in control. You know what the deck(s) have in store for you. You can anticipate receiving a Blackjack, a high 2-card hand, or either a "make" card for you as well as how to play out the hand. With Bi-Count Blackjack you don't double down or split pairs unless it's to your advantage. You don't hit a 'stiff' or stand when the dealer has a 3,4,5, or 6 unless it's to your advantage. You don't surrender or take insurance unless it's to your advantage to do so. The Bi-Count Blackjack system comes in a 62 page spiral-bound book filled with Blackjack analysis including the weaknesses of Basic Strategy as well as those of most counting systems. Over 40 tables explain the fallacies of card-counting systems with "index" numbers. It explains the "defensive" deck characteristics used by casinos and tells you how to anticipate a winning hand on more than a "ten rich" deck. It tells you of the fallacies of making larger bets into a "ten rich" deck when the next hand is actually a disadvantage to your winning. Bi-Count Blackjack has an answer for "defensive" deck techniques and prepares you for the high/low deck and "streaks" that play havoc with a 10-card counting system. Only a limited amount will be sold. Right now only available at Gamblers Book Club, not available at Amazon.

Alan Schoonmaker earned his Ph.D. in industrial psychology at U of California, Berkeley. He taught and did research at UCLA, Carnegie-Mellon, and Belgium's Catholic University of Louvain. After running management development at Merrill Lynch, he worked as a consultant in twenty-nine countries on all six continents. His clients included the world's largest corporations such as IBM, Mobil, GE, GM, and Chase Manhattan. The annual sales of his clients exceed one trillion dollars.He has written or co-authored three research monographs and five books on industrial psychology. His work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, and Indonesian. He has also developed several multi-media training programs. His "Selling: The Psychological Approach" was once the world's best selling computer based instructional program for business people. A major theme of his work is understanding and adjusting to different kinds of people. His attitude toward our game is unique for a poker writer: "I play only in smaller games because maximizing my profits is much less important to me than relaxing and learning about people. I became a psychologist because I enjoy people-watching, and a cardroom is a wonderful place to do it." "Players in small games are much more interesting than the more serious players. They are more varied, open, and relaxed. They laugh more, tell better stories, and never forget that the purpose of playing any game is to have fun." "As the stakes get higher, the players become more serious and homogeneous. Most of them study the same books, know the same odds, and try to use similar strategies. In the smaller games there are more rocks, more maniacs, more calling stations, more nerds, more "Deluded Experts," and more oddballs, which means I learn more and get better material for my writing." "Most poker writers focus on how the champions think and play, but hardly anything has been written about ordinary players. I want to help them to understand themselves and the people in their games." Poker is much more than knowing the right strategies; it's also knowing how to actualize those strategies. The game is full of losing players who know how to play, yet can't seem to induce themselves to consistently make the right plays. "Black Friday" and the current state of the U.S. economy have changed the sub-culture in which we live and play. The dynamics of the poker world have drastically changed. Internet poker is not the cash cow it used to be, thereby changing the face of live poker. The games got tougher as Internet pros gravitated to the live action, the only action they can currently find. As players we must find ways to adapt to our new realities. For the Internet player looking to become a major winner in live poker this involves changes in skill sets and mindsets. For the B&M players it involves adjusting to the skills and styles of former online players. The Internet game and the live game, though related, have very different fundamentals, not to mention all the innumerable different nuances. And, because there are fewer weak players, everybody must adjust to tougher games. The Poker Party is Over will teach things about developing into a great poker player. You'll learn how train your mind to adjust from Internet poker to live poker, or - if you're a B&M player - to adjust to internet players. You'll ascertain how to become an expert on "tells", learn how to effectively manage your bankroll, and be taught how to guide your mind through poker logic. You'll discover how to prepare yourself for survival in our dog-eat-dog world and much, much more.