Product Description: It’s no news that cheating pervades American culture. Americans cheat on taxes, tests, sports and spouses. But the largest arena for cheating may be at the poker table! With an estimated 60-80 million Americans playing poker every week—for the highest stakes ever—you can be sure that not everyone is playing by the rules! In this fascinating look at the card sharper’s art—from its origins in Renaissance Italy to the high-tech methods of today—deception expert Allan Kronzek reveals 52 of the most diabolical scams ever invented...read more

Recounts the story of how a notorious gang of MIT blackjack savants devised and received backing for a system for winning at the world's most sophisticated casinos, an endeavor that earned them more than three million dollars. Originally published as Bringing Down the House. Reprint. (A Columbia Pictures film, written by Peter Steinfeld & Allan Loeb, directed by Robert Luketic, releasing March 2008, starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Jim Sturgess, & others) (Current Affairs)

Product Description: Gambling is more popular than ever, with multi-million dollar poker tournaments on television, gambling themed movies like Rounders gaining in popularity, and casinos opening in just about every state of the U.S. How to Cheat at Everything is a roller-coaster ride through bar bets, street hustles, carnivals, Internet fraud, big and small cons, card and dice games and more...read more

Product Description: Semyon Dukach was known as the darling of Las Vegas. A legend at twenty-one, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop -- a system that had nothing to do with card counting, wasn't illegal, and was more powerful than anything that had been tried before...read more

The true account of an MIT prodigy who mastered a legal gambling process that enabled him to win large stakes in Las Vegas describes the wild rumors that surrounded his casino visits and the violent backlash that nearly cost him his life.

Product Description: In addition to complete rules and instructions for playing dozens of games, tables of probabilities and percentages, and the fine points of winning play, this book — one of the best on the subject — also contains some 60 pages of information on how to detect cheating.

Recounts the story of how a notorious gang of MIT blackjack savants devised and received backing for a system for winning at the world's most sophisticated casinos, an endeavor that earned them more than three million dollars.

Product Description: THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER -- NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 21 The long-running New York Times bestseller that has become a cultural phenomenon, Bringing Down the House is an action-filled caper carried out by the unlikeliest of cons -- supersmart geeks...read more

Product Description: You may think that the days of cheating in casinos ended with the corporate takeover of Las Vegas, but you’d be wrong. The fact is, you are unlikely to be cheated in a modern casino, but that doesn’t mean that an entire class of criminals has been eradicated from the planet...read more

Product Description: Considered by many magicians and card sharps to be the one essential guidebook to attaining the highest level of card mastery. Includes author's own systems of false shuffling, false riffling and cutting, dealing from the bottom, palming cards, "skinning the hand" — even three-card monte, plus 14 dazzling card tricks...read more

The celebrated cardplayer explains rules and winning strategy for poker, rummy, black jack, pinochle, and other games

Explains how to watch for the techniques used to cheat at forms of gambling such as blackjack, craps, roulette, and backgammon (view table of contents)

Details a method of winning at black jack, betting and playing strategically, without being detected by casino personnel and asked to leave the table