The Gentle Gamblers
Author : Lillian Ross
Publisher : Drayton Valley, Alta. : Grassroots Pub.
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Author : Lillian Ross
Publisher : Drayton Valley, Alta. : Grassroots Pub.
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Author : Amanda Creiglow
Publisher : Waldron Lake Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1955407045
Magic may be secret, but it’ll kill you anyway. Twenty-eight-year-old mayor’s assistant Elizabeth has enough on her plate grieving her father’s suicide. She doesn’t need his stash of magical knowledge in the attic. She doesn’t need the hidden supernatural subculture of monsters it pulls her into. And she certainly doesn’t need hints that her father’s madness might have been a smokescreen for something far darker. But uncovering her father’s secrets could be the only way Elizabeth can stop a string of suspicious suicides… if the local wizard doesn’t rip the memories out of her mind, first. Wizards, right?
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Russia
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Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Random House
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473523001
**A New York Times top 100 Notable Book of the Year** Alexander Bruno is a man with expensive problems. Sporting a tuxedo and trotting the globe, he has spent his adult life as a professional gambler. His particular line of work: backgammon, at which he extracts large sums of money from men who think they can challenge his peerless acumen. In Singapore, his luck turned. Maybe it had something to do with the Blot – a black spot which has emerged to distort Bruno’s vision. It’s not showing any signs of going away. As Bruno extends his losing streak in Berlin, it becomes clinically clear that the Blot is the symptom of something terrible. There’s a surgeon who can help, but surgery is going to involve a lot of money, and worse: returning home to the garish, hash-smoke streets of Berkeley, California. Here, the unseemly Keith Stolarsky – a childhood friend in possession of an empire of themed burger bars and thrift stores – is king. And he’s willing to help Bruno out. But there was always going to be a price.
Author : David Sklansky
Publisher : Two Plus Two Publishing LLC
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781880685167
Is there really such a thing as a professional gambler? The answer is an unequivocal, "Yes!" This book's authors are but two examples. Many thousands of people around the country make a good living exclusively from gambling. It is not easy, but it can be done. The key is to understand which games are beatable and know how to beat them. David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth have spent many years writing about the finer points of poker, blackjack, and other beatable games. As you will see in the book, those other "games" are horses, sports, progressive slots and video poker, casino tournaments, and special promotions. They don't include craps, roulette, keno, or baccarat for reasons they'll explain. This book, was written for the not quite as experienced aspiring gambler. It shows you everything you need to learn and do if you want to gamble for a living from both the practical and the technical standpoints. The rest is up to you.
Author : Katherine Cecil Thurston
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Mrs. Grey (Elizabeth Caroline)
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 1844
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Author : Natasha Dow Schüll
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2014-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0691160880
An anthropologist looks at the new "crack cocaine" of high-tech gambling Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward. Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the "machine zone," in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away. Once in the zone, gambling addicts play not to win but simply to keep playing, for as long as possible—even at the cost of physical and economic exhaustion. In continuous machine play, gamblers seek to lose themselves while the gambling industry seeks profit. Schüll describes the strategic calculations behind game algorithms and machine ergonomics, casino architecture and "ambience management," player tracking and cash access systems—all designed to meet the market's desire for maximum "time on device." Her account moves from casino floors into gamblers' everyday lives, from gambling industry conventions and Gamblers Anonymous meetings to regulatory debates over whether addiction to gambling machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two. Addiction by Design is a compelling inquiry into the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance, offering clues to some of the broader anxieties and predicaments of contemporary life. At stake in Schüll's account of the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance is a blurring of the line between design and experience, profit and loss, control and compulsion.
Author : Elizabeth Caroline Grey
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : Lois Greiman
Publisher : NYLA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1617508799
“THE GAMBLER captures your attention from page one with its snappy dialogue, intriguing characters and clever plot. Here is one western with a twist you won't want to miss. SWEET.” –Romantic Times “Lois Greiman delivers!” –Christina Dodd, New York Times bestselling author Legendary bounty hunter and gambler, Raven Scott, is steeped in darkness – from his jet-black hair, his dark, brooding eyes, his lethally toned body, to the depths of his cynical soul. He keeps emotions under his hat, and people at arm's length – that's how he plays them so well...As for women? You take your best chance, then move on to the next game. Now he's chasing down a missing heiress and an easy payday – but he's met his match in gambler's daughter Charm Fergusson! Charm can't believe she's really the long-lost Chantilly Grady; and she trusts Raven about as much as she'd trust a player who holds five aces! But resisting Raven is a losing gamble; and in a game of hearts, the only winning hand is true love!