Playing The Odds

Author : Jeffrey Ma
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780230109681
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House Advantage written by Jeffrey Ma and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the notorious MIT Team depicted in Ben Mezrich's now classic Bringing Down the House, Jeff Ma used math and statistics to master the game of blackjack and reap handsome rewards at casinos. Years later, Ma has inspired not only a bestselling novel and hit movie, but has also started three different companies—the latest of which, Citizen Sports, is an innovative marriage of sports, betting, and digital technology—and launched a successful corporate speaking career. The House Advantage reveals Ma's cutting-edge mathematical insights into the world of statistics and makes them applicable to a wide business audience. He argues that numbers are the key to analyzing nearly everything in the world of business, from how to spot and profit from global market inefficiencies to having multiple backup plans in anticipation of every probability. Ma's stories and business lessons are as intriguing as they are universally applicable.

Author : Nora Roberts
Publisher : Large Print Press
ISBN 13 : 9780786266746
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing the Odds written by Nora Roberts and published by Large Print Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorSerena MacGregor's father knew she'd never settle down and produce a grandchild while working as a blackjack dealer on a luxury cruise ship. But he knew he could stack the odds in his favor by sending unsuspecting Justin Blade - part Comanche and all gambler - to see that his daughter was lucky in love . . .

Author : Hal K. Rothman
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826354106
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing the Odds written by Hal K. Rothman and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of Hal Rothman's wide-ranging, brash, and brilliant essays on Las Vegas offers up a treasury of insights on the follies and possibilities of the New West. Confident, passionate, learned and, yes, wise, Rothman is simply one of the most important voices writing on the region today. He is also a hell of a lot of fun to read." - Virginia Scharff, professor of history and Director, Center for the Southwest, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and Women of the West chair at the Institute for the Study of the American West, Autry National Center, Los Angeles "Hal Rothman has been enlightening me, irritating me, surprising me, and making me laugh for twenty years. Reading his columns reminds me why. He has long been one of the brashest, loudest, smartest, and most original voices in the West. Not even ALS could quiet him. These columns aren't the same as talking to him, but they come close." - Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University "Hal Rothman is both the greatest Western historian of his generation and an H. L. Mencken in cowboy boots. Here is a magnificent collection of his opinion, wit, and wisdom." - Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and Buda's Wagon

Author : Nora Roberts
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1250775620
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing the Odds written by Nora Roberts and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing the Odds begins the family saga of The MacGregors, the beloved and passionate series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, introducing an adventurous spirit who takes a risk on embracing life’s possibilities outside her familiar world—and encounters a chance for love she may never find again. Raised in wealth and luxury, Serena MacGregor wanted something money couldn’t buy, an independent experience she can get only by living it. Working as a blackjack dealer on a cruise ship, she keeps her elite privilege a secret. Then gambler Justin Blade appears and drops big bucks on her table. He’s a mystery who keeps his cards close to his chest—but finds himself desiring to prove to Serena that together they’ve hit the jackpot.

Author : Jay Carty
Publisher : Multnomah Books
ISBN 13 : 9781885305251
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing the Odds written by Jay Carty and published by Multnomah Books. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This readable, easy-to-understand book for non-Christians urges them to make an informed decision about life after death. Covers such topics as heaven, hell, fear of death, & the need to choose Christ today.

Author : Chad Millman
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786731044
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Odds written by Chad Millman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One gambler is a manic former cokehead with an Ivy League degree. The second is a college dropout trying to make a living at the only thing he enjoyed at school -- gambling. The third, one of Vegas's most respected bookmakers, is perilously close to burning out. The Odds follows the lives of these three professional gamblers through a college basketball season in a one-of-a-kind city struggling to reconcile its lawless past with its family-friendly makeover. With a wiseguy attitude and a faultless eye and ear for the sights and sounds of Vegas and its denizens, Chad Millman has created a portrait that the Wall Street Journal called "fascinating. . . often screamingly funny." The Las Vegas Review-Journal had just one word for the book: "Superb."

Author : King Yao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780935926309
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weighing the Odds in Sports Betting written by King Yao and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by King Yao, author of the widely-acclaimed Weighing the Odds in Hold 'em Poker, should be used as a guideline to sports betting rather than a blueprint. The sports betting market changes and adapts quickly. The underlying principles shown in this book should help the reader adapt and continue to make good bets even when the market changes.

Author : Michael Oher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101560037
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Beat The Odds written by Michael Oher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller. Looking back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, Michael talks about the goals he had to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness that trapped his family. Eventually he grasped onto football as his ticket out and worked hard to make his dream into a reality. With his adoptive family, the Touhys, and other influential people in mind, he describes the absolute necessity of seeking out positive role models and good friends who share the same values to achieve one's dreams. Sharing untold stories of heartache, determination, courage, and love, I Beat the Odds is an incredibly rousing tale of one young man's quest to achieve the American dream.

Author : King Yao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780935926255
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weighing the Odds in Hold'em Poker written by King Yao and published by . This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Yao explains how to play Hold'Em poker. Topic covered include sizing up your opponents, counting outs, figuring pot odds, the value of position, determining when to raise, call, or fold, bluffing, semi-bluffing, slowplaying, check-raising, regular games, shorthanded games, and playing poker on the Internet.

Author : Bill Boston
Publisher : Cardoza
ISBN 13 : 9781580421751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Omaha High-Low: Play to Win With The Odds written by Bill Boston and published by Cardoza. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This strategy guide to the second-hottest new poker game is the only one with reliable information on all 5,211 possible Omaha high-low hands. This is the only book that shows you the chances that every one of the 5,278 Omaha high-low hands has of winning the high end of the pot, the low end of it, and how often it is expected to scoop all the chips.