Sports Gambling

SUPER BOWL THRILLER FROM EDGAR NOMINEE PAUL LEVINE Bobby Gallagher had it all and lost it.. Now, to reclaim his life, all he has to do is... Rig the Super Bowl, win a huge bet...and avoid getting killed. Aided by his 12-year-old son, Gallagher takes on an improbable task: beat the mob at its own game...and fix the Super Bowl. "The plot kept me hooked from beginning to end. A great mystery read, a fun romantic read, and a huge Big Guy vs. Little Guy book!" -- Amazon 5-star review

From the simple to the intricate and the audacious to the absurd, Adam Kucharski reveals the long and tangled history between betting and science and explains why gambling continues to generate insights into luck and decision making today. Covering exploits and ideas from across the globe, he meets the teams behind hedge funds that capitalize on inaccurate sports betting odds and explains how PhD-level pundits are using methods originally developed for the US nuclear program to predict sports results.

Are you considering entering the exciting world of online gambling? Then this beginners guide is the perfect introduction for you! This essential guide demystifies the realm of online betting, offering a clear path from novice gambler to seasoned pro. With insightful strategies, practical tips, and expert advice, this book is your ticket to mastering the digital gambling world. Whether you're looking to understand the basics, refine your betting tactics, or gain the psychological edge needed to win, this guide covers it all. Get ready to transform your approach to online gambling, learn to ...

This program is designed to give the average person a winning sports investment strategy. It is not overly complicated. From my experience in most situations when it comes to profitable sports investing I have found that less is more. Focusing on the most important factors that impact wins and losses is far more effective than spending hours poring over stats that may or may not have an impact on a given game. In the end the randomness of sports tends to outweigh many of the less important stats and cancel much of the analysis as useless noise. I will focus on providing a fundamental ...

What if quitting gambling wasn’t about resisting urges but rewiring your brain? You’ve tried to stop. You’ve made promises to yourself, convinced this time will be different. But somehow, you get pulled back in, leaving you drained and searching for a real way out. The stress, the constant battle…it’s exhausting. But the truth? Quitting isn’t about willpower. It’s about freeing your brain from the faulty reward loops that make gambling feel irresistible.

Phil Gordon plays poker with the best players in the world. He has won, and lost, in tournaments and cash games around the globe, all the while studying the game and learning from every hand dealt. It's a tough game. But anyone can become a winning player with the right amount of courage, patience, aggression, observation, and, perhaps most important, dedication to becoming a better player.

Sometimes the pot isn’t the money. Braxton Poker is my game and winning is my pleasure. Until Faith Queen beats me at poker! This time the pot isn’t the money. It's the curvy queen in front of me. She's sassy, smokin' hot, and betting on winning her heart is the ultimate game. Of Love! Faith Babysitting high rollers in three-piece suits is my day job. I'm used to their ridiculous demands but never mix business with pleasure is my only rule. Until Braxton Gamble walks into my life and challenges me to a game of poker! This time it's my heart that I risk losing. Ready for five new hot ...

Betting on Horse Racing For Dummies is packed with information that teaches you the ins and outs of the racetrack. You'll learn how to improve your odds, avoid common betting mistakes, and just plain have fun at the races. This is a spectator's easy-to-understand guide, so you'll have no trouble identifying the racing breeds with their strengths and weaknesses, sizing up the jockey, understanding the importance and role of a trainer, placing bets, managing money, and beyond.

Gentleman Jack Newton: Confessions of a Crossroad Gambler" is an autobiography by Jack Newton, a legendary high-stakes gambler, narrated by 7-time WSOP bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu. Jack recounts his life on the road from the Depression era through the 1970s, detailing his adventures in card games across America. The book offers a glimpse into the world of "crossroad gamblers," where both skill and cunning were used to win

xGenius explores the interplay between analysis, tactics, and decision-making. It seeks to put the sport of football under the microscope with the aim of getting closer to the ultimate truth of what makes players, managers and teams successful. What, ultimately, wins football matches. Packed with examples from the Premier League and beyond, xGenius shows how xG and other performance analysis tools are helping answer previously unanswerable questions.

Everybody Loses is the first major investigation into America’s sports gambling industry. Journalist Danny Funt has obtained wild stories and stunning admissions by interviewing the power players of the betting boom. They reveal the alarming consequences playing out as our nation of sports fans transforms into a nation of sports gamblers.

Spencer Bradley ruins everything he touches. Addicted to gambling, he’s lied, cheated, and stolen to get what he wants. Now, in order to protect those he cares for, he’s keeping his distance. Rehab’s taught him a lot, but when his time runs out and he finds himself with nowhere to turn, he seeks help from the one person he’s capable of destroying. Olivia Carter fell in love the day she met Spencer Bradley. Despite him being responsible for the downfall of his best friend’s career and landing himself in rehab, she can’t bring herself to stay away—even if it means risking her ...

Learn overarching poker concepts and theories essential to becoming a long-term winning poker player. Are you new to poker or a struggling poker player? Do you want to be a profitable poker player? Do you want to learn how to crush it at poker? If so, this audiobook is for you. This audio program will teach you everything you need to know to crush it at poker and turn nickels, dimes, and quarters into hundreds of dollars of profit.

An ex-Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games - with a 41 percent return in his first year. Trading Bases explains how he did it. After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta was out of a job. He found a new one but lost that, too, when an ambulance mowed him down. In search of a way to cheer himself up while he recuperated, Peta started watching baseball again. That’s when inspiration hit: Why not apply his outstanding risk-analysis skills to improve on sabermetrics, the method made famous by Moneyball?

~Covering the Spread was first published in 2013~ He’s playing for his brother’s debt... Quarterback Lane Levermore is in a hell of a fix. He’s set to play in one of the most important games of his career and his brother is in too deep with Vegas bookmakers, bookies who are looking at Lane for repayment. She’s stumbled upon questionable pre-game lines... Feisty sports reporter Donna Belfour has her eye on Lane Levermore. Her instincts are razor sharp and she knows there’s a world of heat gathering around her favorite quarterback. Determined to call Lane out on his unfavorable ...

In sports betting, there are two ways to lose: betting on unprofitable plays, and risking too much on profitable plays. Figuring out how much to risk on any given wager is the most important problem in betting, and this book has solved it for you. The concepts presented work through a lot of math to prove how to size your bets most effectively, including when you already have bets pending. Sometimes it’s hard to put advanced sports betting theory to work for you, but the material in this book is both fascinating and easy to apply every time you make a bet. Losing sucks. So read this book ...

Gambling is a dangerous, addictive, and expensive hobby, in fact it's the fastest growing addiction on the planet. Smart phone technology has sparked a global gambling epidemic, the temptation to gamble is now literally in the palm of our hands. Mind blowing, record breaking profits are being recorded by online casinos and sports betting companies. As a result, hard-working everyday people are gambling money they simply cannot afford to lose. I was one of the many who suffered extreme gambling addiction.

When an arrogant young man challenges a mature “tween-or” to a race, with much humor and great abilities, the mature man demonstrates to the youngster the value of humility and the reality that age is just a number.

Contains six sections discussing probability, poker, blackjack, other casino games, sports betting, and general gambling concepts. This book contains some of the most sophisticated gambling ideas that have ever been put into print. Included is perhaps the best discussion of the basic mathematics of gambling, yet it is written so that even the most non-mathematical of readers can understand it. Many of the ideas discussed are those that the author himself has successfully used during his career. Topics include expectation, combinations, Baye's Theorem, the eight mistakes in poker, checking ...

The single greatest evolution in horse racing analysis is here. No coding skills are required. Are you ready to claim your new analytical edge? For generations, handicapping has been a craft of human intellect—a hard-won blend of experience, observation, and painstaking manual analysis. We learned to read the form, feel the race, and trust our gut. That era is over. The emergence of artificial intelligence represents a seismic shift in how we must approach the logic of wagering. From Don Beavers, the bestselling author of the acclaimed Horse Racing and Handicapping Series, comes the ...