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The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition

Richard Epstein's classic book on gambling and its mathematical analysis covers the full range of games from penny matching, to blackjack and other casino games, to the stock market (including Black-Scholes analysis). He even considers what light statistical inference can shed on the study of paranormal phenomena. Epstein is witty and insightful, a pleasure to dip into and read and rewarding to study.

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Taking Chances: Winning With Probability

Most of us enjoy pleasant surprises and know that many of life's greatest rewards are obtained by taking chances. This is true whether we are playing the lottery or deciding whether or not to buy flowers when we are unsure if it might be our girlfriend's birthday. So, if you enjoy taking chances and winning--and it's a safe bet that you do--this book helps you do so in a more intelligent way.
John Haigh is Reader in Mathematics at Sussex University, and his book covers a remarkably large number of topics. He tells you how to take chances playing the football pools and about the role of chance in sports such as tennis, golf, and soccer. What points in tennis are most important? If a soccer player gets a yellow card in 10 percent of games and is suspended for one game whenever he has accumulated two yellow cards, how often is he suspended? What is the chance that a team that scores the first goal goes on to win? He also writes about casino games, bridge, and Monopoly, explaining why orange is the best color of Monopoly property to own.

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Can You Win?: The Real Odds for Casino Gambling, Sports Betting, and Lotteries

This book is about odds, and the chances of actually winning at a wide variety of gambling, from casino games to sport betting to lotteries. But while odds can be a dry subject, Orkin's presentation isn't. He livens it up with quotes from great literature and great wits, as well as his own sense of humor. There's profitable information here. For example, while Orkin confirms that you can't up your chances to win a state lottery, there are ways of increasing your win when you do get lucky. It pays to listen up when Mike Orkin spills the chips.

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What Are The Odds? : Chance In Everyday Life

Did you know that if you drive ten miles to buy a Powerball ticket, you're sixteen times more likely to die in a car crash than you are to win the jackpot? Or that, while it is nearly impossible for a coin to land on heads one hundred times in a row, it is equally improbable for any other specific sequence to come up? As Orkin's Law of Absurdity states, "Everything is impossible, yet something must happen."
Full of surprising facts and useful information, What Are the Odds? is a delightful introduction to how chance works and the role it plays in our everyday lives. It answers such practical questions as:

* When is a weird event due to chance and when is it due to something else?
* Can you make a living as a gambler? If so, which games should you play?
* Are some things possible, but so unlikely that they will never happen?
* Should "Survival of the Fittest" apply to business?
* How do you determine which strategy to use when you have no ideas what your opponent will do?
* How can you be cooperative without being exploited?

A fun guide to the principles that govern chance and the games people play, whether in a casino or in everyday life, What Are the Odds? is guaranteed to entertain and enlighten anyone interested in the nature of chance.

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The Mathematics of Games and Gambling

You can't lose with this MAA Book Prize winner if you want to see how mathematics can be used to analyze games of chance and skill. Roulette, craps, blackjack, backgammon, poker, bridge, lotteries and horse races are considered here in a way that reveals their mathematical aspects. The tools used include probability, expectation, and game theory. No prerequisites are needed beyond high school algebra. No book can guarantee good luck, but this book will show you what determines the best bet in a game of chance or the optimal strategy in a strategic game. Besides being an excellent supplement to a course on probability and good bed-side reading, this book's treatment of lotteries should save the reader some money.

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