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The Winning Strategy is a book that is long over due! I love to play the Provincial Sports Lottery, but it is hard to win without inside knowledge. Al J's Sports REALLY tells you everything that you need to know about PSL betting in this book. By far, it is the best $20 that I ever spent! The only thing is, it is so detailed that you really need to read it twice. It's worth your effort!

This is an excellent reference for the serious horse player. The appendix "Statistical Validation," which shows you how to determine how many races you need to test before you can have confidence in a new system, is worth the price of the book.

Bob Pitlak, nehandicappers.org

I should have included this book in my list of best handicapping books but it was out of print. This is not a simple book and the author assumes you are an adequate if not great handicapper. The most valuable information in this book is how to validate a handicapping method, how to create an objective value line among many other gems. The math is highschool math not Ziemba and Hausch math, although he covers the authors in this book too. I've gone back to this book many times for reference. It's a unique and valuable contribution to any handicapping library.

Dylan Alliata
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I am in the process of completing a major home remodeling project. I purchased this book along with several others to get ideas for maximizing the available space in a two car garage. I got some great space saving ideas for making storage and work modules from others in this book who have done so. I highly recommend this book as a resource for ideas.

Hats off to Wood magazine for this consolidation effort. Bringing together these first rate articles resulted in a highly substative offering.

This book was just the sort of book I was after. It wasn't too technical but wasn't lame like others I have read. The only down-side is that it doesn't tell you anyway of counting cards (even just a simple method).

This book and another on card counting will suit me just fine. I highly recommend this book as it contains lots of interesting facts about many games.

Miron Stabinsky has done a great thing with this book. He's illuminated another way of looking at gambling, as a spiritual quest for self-development and self-experience. The book includes many interesting anecdotes gleaned from his long experience in the casino industry and as a professional gambler. Also, there is a considerable emphasis on looking at the whole casino experience and its components in spiritual terms. The book also includes all the basics of the casino table games, slot machines and video poker with strategies and money-management rules. It also has advice on getting along with casino staff, tipping, and how the casino works. I can't recommend this book more higly. Not only is it well-written, but it is truly a pleasure to read, and it's one of my favorite how-to books.

I'm going to make this short. Let me just saw that half of me wants to tell you how cool, funny, and sneaky this book is -- and the other half of me wants to shut my mouth so people will pass it up. Keep these secrets to myself.

Gambling as a recreation? Yes. Gambling as an addictive/compulsive disorder which could lead to homelessness or suicide? Yes, that too. This book is highly satirical and funny and to use a phrase: Love it or leave it, this book pokes fun at many of the taboo's which thrive in Las Vegas. With the spread of gambling to other states, which other ills may follow? Gambling - it comes with a caveat emptor gaurantee. -- a long time Las Vegas resident

Rob is the Man!!! I didnt double my money, I TRIPLED IT. and i owe it all to him. (And i'm not just saying this because he's my brother) His strategies and hints are the best, the casinos banned me now.

Seeburger shows how people get lured into addictive behaviors by actually wanting control over their lives through the predictable outcomes from abusing a substance or activity, and how they can take responsibility for fleeing the slavery of addiction. People become disowned by addiction and can find their way out by taking charge, not by a victim-mentality. A wonderfully insightful book which should be read by everyone.

This is the most illuminating, up-to-date, and entertaining history of gambling in the West that has yet been published. I was a student at the University of Salford (UK) when I had to read this as part of a course on the sociology of gambling. Reith's style is scholarly, yet accessible. This text stands as an example of how interesting and diverse the historical/ cultural development of gambling has been, and of how much gambling can tell us about modern society and, as such, stands as a riposte to the yawn-inducing tedium of the 'problem gambling' school of books on this topic, which consists of a bunch of safety-merchants/salesmen who (presumably) aspire to scholary wisdom, yet fail miserably to say anything useful about one of the most fundamental of human traits: the itch for play. In short, Gerda Reith's book should be required reading for anyone who is interested in why anyone would take a chance on anything (and not just gambling).

Ainslie writes with wit, grace, clarity, and conviction. That he is the acknowledged master of handicapping theory in his generation is also significant. His gentle humor and dignity is unmatched in today's handicapping writers. If you are new to horse racing and paramutuel betting, you can do no better than starting with the best.