Win At Fixed Odds Football Betting was the first book to deal entirely with this subject and demonstrates how to spot the prizes and pitfalls of the sport. It covers: Which bets are excellent value and which to avoid How to see through the marketing tricks to the logic that lies behind the coupons. Turn the tables on the bookie by understanding his tactics and fight back with your own. How to get the best value from your selections by compiling your own prices to compare with those listed on the...
EXCLUSIVE TO THE HIGH STAKES BOOKSHOP AND AMAZON MARKETPLACE The book takes you through the process and strategy of race profiling at the toughest National Hunt Meeting of them all. In each of the 26 races at the 2009 Cheltenham Festival it outlines the profile needed to identify the potential winner and how to profit from these selections from both an ante-post perspective and on the day of the race. The Cheltenham Festival is ideal for using race profiling, as it is the Olympics of National Hu...
The college basketball scandals of 1951 were to basketball what the 1919 Black Sox scandals were to baseball—a loss of innocence, after which the game would be permanently tarnished, its relationship to power and big money firmly established. In Scandals of '51, Charley Rosen identifies all the major figures—including players, coaches, gangsters, clergymen, politicians—that made up the elaborate network that controlled the outcomes to many games or protected those who did so. Rosen shows who got...
'Hello, is that Jonathan Rendall?' 'Speaking.' 'My name's Rachel. I'm calling from Yellow Jersey Press and I have a proposal for you. I'm looking for someone to give £12,000 to but the catch is they have to spend it all on gambling - horses, the dogs, casinos, boxing, golf, footie, that sort of thing - and then write a book about it. Any profits made are entirely that person's but if they lose it all I still want my book. It's high risk but without wanting to assume too much, I've heard a bit ab...
The Neuroscience and Neuropsychology of Gambling
Gambling disorder is a behavioural addiction that represents the clinical extreme of a spectrum of gambling-related harm. What insights can neuroscientific and neuropsychological methods provide to help understand this condition and improve existing programs for treatment and prevention? This volume describes recent research using an array of contemporary tools including structural and functional brain imaging, and neurocognitive assessment. These analyses consider brain activity and psychologi...
