The demand for gambling generates interest in this topic among people who are unfamiliar with gambling. Experienced players and professionals are also interested in thematic literature. Such a reader base is a great excuse to write a book.

Today you can buy dozens of books on gambling topics on the Internet. 

Stories, methods, training materials. Set out in such literature stories and lessons, entertain and help understand the nuances of the gameplay. Buying a book like this often pays off: novices avoid mistakes and professionals sharpen their skills even more. For our players, this literature will help them understand how to play casino for Canadian dollars or other currencies, and increase their chances of winning.

Gambling 102

This book is now sold on English-language sites. The Russian translation is not yet available. Its author is Michael Shackleford, an American mathematician, risk assessor, and financial analyst.

In 19 chapters, the author explains the principles of basic gambling. The information is given in an accessible language (for those who speak English). Tips, systems and strategies outlined here help to get the basic skills and improve their level for beginners.

Bringing Down the House

The author is the American Ben Mezrich. This is his first famous novel and was published in 2002. After that he wrote four more stories. The last one is “Billionaire Willing” about Mark Zuckerberg.

The theme of the book is how to beat a casino. This is a fiction novel, not a reference book. The plot develops around a group of students led by an MTI professor. They came up with and implemented a blackjack scheme that allowed them to beat a Las Vegas casino. The story is filed so interestingly that it forced Hollywood filmmakers to make a movie based on the story, “21.”

American Casino Guide:2018

This is a reference annual publication. Its audience is Americans and foreign tourists who want to visit casinos in the United States. The guide is full of useful information about all U.S. casinos: room and board prices, list of games, features of different casinos. For beginners, the rules to the games are given, and explanations of basic strategies and systems are given. The edition is accompanied by coupons allowing the Americans to save considerable money when visiting a gambling house. The guide is not translated into Russian.

Beat the Dealer

This is a systematic guide to blackjack, first published in 1966. It is useful for beginners and those who are professionally interested in this game. This teaches basic card-counting skills and systematic analysis. The author, Edward Thorpe, an American professor of mathematics, advises to apply the principles of his guide in all areas of life, not only in Casinos on Net.

The New Complete Guide to Gambling

This book is a hybrid of a reference book and a fascinating history. It covers how casinos work, the principles of gambling, and how to win. This background information is peppered with real life stories. The author is John Scarney, an American gambling expert. The book is not published in Russian.

The Compleat Gamester

The Compleat Gamester was written by Charles Cotton, an English poet, and was published anonymously in 1674. The book included instructions on how to play various games, including billiards, trucks, balls, and chess. By this time there was more advice on cheating, and chance was considered a matter of providence.

Gambling was not yet a business from which professionals could make a fortune, but players realized that they could use mathematics in predicting the results of their games. Cotton advocated gambling while warning players against the tricks of cheaters, particularly “when the company gets thin and your eyes dim from watching, fake dice.” In 1970, the Imprint Society published The Compleat Gamester, which retains the charm of vintage book writing.

Scarn’s Complete Guide to Gambling

Scarn’s Complete Guide to Gambling by John Scarn Simon and Schuster, 1961 The book provides information on discussing almost every aspect of gambling–its history, rules and winning strategies, a little bit of gambling math, and even methods of cheating. He gives volumes of gambling tips and inside tips, as well as many of the stories and personalities he has known in his life as a gambling expert.

Most of the countless books on gambling published each year are practical guides that do not improve on this one. John Scarn (pronounced Skarny), who until his death in 1985 was recognized as the world’s leading gambling expert and the greatest card wizard of his time, and his knowledge and spirit live on in the many books he wrote.

The Biggest Game in Town

The Biggest Game in Town by Al Alvarez In this book, Alvarez describes Las Vegas as the land of milk and honey, but otherwise a graveyard, and he embarks on a three-week road trip to 1981. the world poker series for the New Yorker. This book was the first of its kind to describe the game of professional poker, and it is believed that the genre of poker first originated for a wider audience.

It shows a gangster who loses all his money at poker and goes off to rob a bank and then comes back and loses all the money he robbed. The lens captures madmen willing to bet suitcases of money on individual rolls of the dice, drug addicts who refuse to believe their luck is beyond them, and losers who never learn.

Put down the minion

Put the Favourite by Beth Reimer Spiegel and Grau, 2010. This is the author’s first book that shows how to win in the underworld of gambling and tells the story of an author who worked for four years. It shows the difference between winning big and losing big. In this honest but too crazy a memoir to be true, we get a rare glimpse into the underworld of gambling.

The rare professionals who are talented enough to beat the house go to great lengths to surround themselves with people who will lose their money because of them. Beth Reimer says every addicted player has a desire to lose. “And like” Young, needing guidance from the beginning, Reimer experiments with life and becomes an expert on sports gambling.

Fiction books about gambling

If we talk about fiction where gambling plays an important role, it is worth mentioning such works as:

• “The Gambler” – a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, where much is taken from the personal gambling experience of the author, who himself was a famous gambler;
• “Red and Black” – Stendhal’s masterpiece of world literature;
• “The Turkish Gambit” – a novel from the cycle of detectives about Erast Fandorin by Boris Akunin;
• “Casino Royale” by Ian Fleming – a book about agent 007 James Bond (there is a successful adaptation with Daniel Craig in the title role);
• “The Queen of Spades” – the famous novel by Valentin Pikul.

Each work on the list undoubtedly has many artistic merits, and often you will notice the peculiarities of the players’ psychology.

The books will help you better understand some aspects of the game, but without practice they will prove useless.