Explores the FBI investigation of illegal gambling involving NBA veteran referee Tim Donaghy, who went to prison for betting on games, asserting that Donaghy's schemes involved professional gamblers and members of Italian American crime families.
Career Development in Male And Female Racket Sports Players
by Mithilesh Kumar Singh
The Ultimate Creative Coloring Book For Sports Adults And Kids
by Arif Press
The World Cup has replaced the Olympic Games as the 'Greatest Show on Earth' and the 2006 World Cup will see over £1 billion gambled on it. Gambling on football matches has never been more popular, not only on the eventual outcome of the games but also on the correct score, goals scored, corners conceded, bookings, half-time/full-time results and first goalscorer. The 2006 World Cup Betting Guide will look at all aspects of betting on World Cup 2006 including sections on the hugely popular excha...
Includes: the settlement of all standard bets, chart which shows odds as a percentage, how to make a 'book', a Tic Tac sign language chart of all major prices etc.
Phantoms of the Card Table (High stakes: Cards)
by David Britland, Gazzo Macee, and Gazzo
Walter Irving Scott was the greatest man ever with a pack of cards, so said Max Holden, writing in The Sphinx magazine, an exclusive journal for magicians. This was in 1930 after Scott had bamboozled a room full of New York's finest card manipulators by dealing himself winning poker hands from a shuffled deck. He liked to say of himself that he 'cheated the cheats.' His skill with cards was extraordinary. He was elusive too, and soon became known as The Phantom of the Card Table. We call have a...
The extraordinary life of the best poker player who ever livedWhen Stuey 'The Kid' Ungar took his first World Series of Poker title, one journalist asked him what he would do with the money. His answer: 'Gamble it'.Stuey grew up among the hoodlums and wiseguys of New York's Lower East Side. A pint-sized high-school drop out who never worked a day in his life, never had a bank account or paid a penny in taxes, he lived to gamble and became the world's most feared card player. From the multi-milli...
Few people manage to make money from gambling; fewer still make a living from it. Written for hardened and novice sports bettors alike, Joseph Buchdahl's Fixed Odds Sports Betting examines, through various numerical techniques, how fixed odds punters may learn to beat the bookmaker, protect profits through a sensible approach to risk management, and turn high-risk gambling into a form of low-risk investment. Fixed Odds Sports Betting investigates: Markets in fixed odds sports bettingThe bookmake...