The 52-year-old Richard Lehman, author of Slot Operations—The Myth and the Math, is Casino Manager for the Golden Gate Hotel and Casino in Downtown Las Vegas. (The hotel, the oldest in the city, was opened in 1906. It has 106 rooms and 325 employees, and is owned by Derek and Greg Stevens of Desert Rock Enterprises.) Lehman, a 30-year veteran of the casino industry, has been vice president for the Las Vegas-based Navegante Group, and has served as vice president of slots and casino operations, while consulting for Korean and Taiwanese casinos. He also writes for Casino Enterprise Management magazine.

John Braswell of Auburn, Alabama has been a computer analyst of greyhound races, and book author for more than a decade. He authored How You Can Win at Greyhound Racing Like a Pro and Win Like a Pro—l00l Ways to Beat the Greyhounds. The latter title will soon be available at Gambler’s Book Shop. It was inspired by research provided by the late greyhound betting legend and author Jack Fink of Florida.

Greg Gift, originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a former poker player who found joy and profit in sports handicapping, primarily in football betting, particularly the pros, specializes in betting and the teaching of how to bet the underdog. His book, Winning NFL Totals Strategy was extremely popular in the 1980s.