One minute, poker was an old-man's game played in smoky backrooms and televised now and again in the middle of the night. The next minute, it was a sensation sweeping every casino, dorm room, and man
The complete tax implications of gambling are a big mystery to gamblers, accountants, and even the Internal Revenue Service itself. The IRS offers surprisingly few details to guide gamblers through th
Thanks to television, the Internet, and the incredible popularity of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, whenKill Phil was first published in 2006, tournament poker had become the richest sport in
Kill Everyone took the poker world by storm when it was first released in 2007. Its perfect blend of real-time experience, poker math, and computational horsepower created new concepts and advanced st
In the highly fluid and fast-changing tournament-poker universe, the dominant trend is toward looser and more aggressive (LAG) play, in which players move chips around at dizzying speeds. The Raiser's
Rick Lax has a great gig. What does he do? Whatever he wants Then he writes about it. He's a stunt journalist -- in Las Vegas. Rick crashes conventions, throws wild parties, and hangs out with celebr
What was so fascinating about this Prohibition-era gangster? After all, dozens of such hoods roamed the streets of New York City in those desperate and violent years.But Vincent Coll took street viole
Risk of Ruin is a love story unlike any you've ever read—dark, disturbing, irreverent -- some might say sacrilegious -- while protagonists Bart and Stacy may be the most compelling misfits to go on th
Ask any great poker player how he'd play a hand and he'll always say, "it depends." Though that can be an infuriating response, the truth is, it does depend. The key to becoming a great poker player i
Author Nathaniel Tilton was just a regular guy with a regular job when he read Bringing Down the House and decided he wanted to do what the players in that book did. A journey through the inner world
A savage journey to the heart of Hunter S. Thompson’s Las Vegas, with the Good Doctor as tour guide.A Lord of the Rings-like adventure in the city’s underground flood channels. A seven-day stay at a s
The Best, and Affordable, Arts in America! Arts America is the only book that gives you the inside arts scoop on the 20 best cities for the fine and performance arts, as well as major arts festivals,
Hiking the High Sierra provides recommendations for, descriptions of, and directions to some of the best scrambles in the High Sierra. Included are the best of the classic California 14ers and scrambl
In Michael Konik's darkly satirical debut novel, an American Humbert Humbert is overwhelmed by fantasies of becoming a Vegas big shot.Dubbed the “Dean of the World's Gambling Writers,” Konik is a form
From the first turn of the card to getting out of a foreign country with a suitcase full of cash, Blackjack Blueprint is the most comprehensive book ever written on learning to play blackjack for prof
Aren’t we all following personal yellow brick roads to Las Vegas? Hasn’t everyone experienced some version of Dorothy’s surprise in The Wizard of Oz of not being in Kansas anymore?Cherry Picker author
Whale Hunt in the Desert is the only book ever to examine the lifestyles and motivations of the world's biggest gamblers--the whales. It also divulges the unbridled lengths to which casinos go to harp
Branch Whitney has hiked and climbed more than 3,000 miles, led more than 2,000 hikers to summits, and blazed wild and rewarding scrambling routes all over the Southwest. When Whitney claims that some
