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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.94 — 27,557 ratings — published 2002
The Gambler (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.91 — 138,402 ratings — published 1866
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,113 ratings — published 2003
A Rogue by Any Other Name (The Rules of Scoundrels, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.92 — 47,324 ratings — published 2012
The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,253 ratings — published 2005
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,694 ratings — published 2006
Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,902 ratings — published
Busting Vega$: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds
by (shelved 18 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,826 ratings — published 2005
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,305 ratings — published 2020
Dreaming of You (The Gamblers of Craven's, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,818 ratings — published 1994
The Logic Of Sports Betting (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.96 — 945 ratings — published
The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,867 ratings — published 1983
Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.14 — 868 ratings — published 1966
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.73 — 101,789 ratings — published 1953
One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey, 'The Kid', Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,689 ratings — published 2005
A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,334 ratings — published 2016
Tishomingo Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.72 — 10,052 ratings — published 2002
The Biggest Game in Town (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,098 ratings — published 1983
Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.84 — 25,267 ratings — published 2014
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,611 ratings — published 2014
Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,085 ratings — published 2010
Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.99 — 713,401 ratings — published 2011
The Man with the $100,000 Breasts: And Other Gambling Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.72 — 200 ratings — published 1999
Poker Nation: A High-Stakes, Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.59 — 589 ratings — published 2002
Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,274 ratings — published 2026
No Good Duke Goes Unpunished (The Rules of Scoundrels, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.86 — 24,364 ratings — published 2013
Trading Bases: A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Not Necessarily in That Order )
by (shelved 10 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,445 ratings — published 2013
Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.46 — 797 ratings — published 2010
Doyle Brunson's Super System (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,514 ratings — published 1979
Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.86 — 883 ratings — published 1987
One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (The Rules of Scoundrels, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.02 — 35,108 ratings — published 2013
The Odds: A Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.35 — 3,599 ratings — published 2007
Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.19 — 103,548 ratings — published 2006
The Odds: One Season, Three Gamblers, and the Death of Their Las Vegas (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.78 — 563 ratings — published 2001
24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.88 — 181 ratings — published 1999
Every Hand Revealed (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,814 ratings — published 2008
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.66 — 6,046 ratings — published 2024
Whale Hunt in the Desert: Secrets of a Vegas Superhost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.76 — 410 ratings — published 2004
My Once and Future Duke (The Wagers of Sin, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,504 ratings — published 2018
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,464 ratings — published 2012
The Music of Chance (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,918 ratings — published 1990
Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire--and How It All Came Crashing Down . . . (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,232 ratings — published 2013
Small Stakes Hold 'em: Winning Big with Expert Play (Small Stakes Poker Games)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.08 — 757 ratings — published 2004
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.65 — 453 ratings — published 2009
The Smart Money: How the World's Best Sports Bettors Beat the Bookies Out of Millions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.92 — 505 ratings — published 2005
Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No-Limit Tournaments, Volume I: Strategic Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,542 ratings — published 2004
Caro's Book of Poker Tells: The Psychology and Body Language of Poker (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,520 ratings — published 1984
The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told: A True Tale of Three Gamblers, The Kentucky Derby, and the Mexican Cartel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as gambling)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,006 ratings — published 2020
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.81 — 25,693 ratings — published 2018
Then Came You (The Gamblers of Craven's, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as gambling)
avg rating 3.94 — 34,595 ratings — published 1993
“One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.”
― From Here to Eternity
― From Here to Eternity
“All serious poker players try to minimize their tells, obviously. There are a couple ways to go about this. One is the robotic approch: where your face becomes a mask and your voice a monotone, at least while the hand is being played. . . . The other is the manic method, where you affect a whole bunch of tics, twitches, and expressions, and mix them up with a river of insane babble. The idea is to overwhelm your opponents with clues, so they can't sort out what's going on. This approach can be effective, but for normal people it's hard to pull off. (If you've spent part of your life in an institution, this method may come naturally.)”
― Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No-Limit Tournaments, Volume I: Strategic Play
― Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No-Limit Tournaments, Volume I: Strategic Play
