The Games We Play

Gambling is America's favorite pastime. More Americans gamble than go to movies, theater, concerts, and opera combined. Americans spend six times as much money on gambling as on all spectator sports put together, or enough to run the U.S. State Department for four years. Now comes the book that explains the ins and outs of almost every game of chance in the world: casino games, horse racing, poker, lotteries, keno, sports betting. And who knows it all better than former casino exec and 30-year casino veteran Barney Vinson, who guarantees you will win enough on your first bet to pay for the book! Never be intimidated by a casino again. Vinson gives you easy instructions on how to lower the house edge at blackjack, craps, roulette, baccarat, keno, and all the other casino games - and how to get the complimentaries you're entitled to. Vinson is the former Gaming Instructor at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and the best-selling author of Las Vegas Behind the Tables Parts One and Two, Casino Secrets, Chip-Wrecked in Las Vegas, and Ask Barney. In the world of fiction, he has also written The Vegas Kid and The Big Spin, released by Sarah Book Publishing.