Gambler's Book Club | Gambling Podcast - EPISODE 131--Bill Friedman--author of "All Against The Law: The Criminal Activities of the Depression Era Bank Robbers, Mafia, FBI, Politicians, & Cops",

EPISODE 131--Bill Friedman--author of "All Against The Law: The Criminal Activities of the Depression Era Bank Robbers, Mafia, FBI, Politicians, & Cops",

04/14/14 • 33 min

Bill Friedman is author of "All Against The Law: The Criminal Activities of the Depression Era Bank Robbers, Mafia, FBI, Politicians, & Cops", the fast-action crime story with shocking political exposes. He also wrote the groundbreaking research work Designing Casinos to Dominate the Competition published by the University of Nevada Reno. He is author of the seminal book for succeeding in the casino business Casino Management. He taught the pioneer course in casino management for the University of Nevada Las Vegas's College of Hotel Administration in the early years during the decade of the 1970s.Friedman is president of the Friedman Management Group, which specializes in solving casino marketing, design, and operations problems. He has consulted for forty years to casinos throughout the United States and in England, South Africa, Monaco, Australia, Russia, Canada, and several Caribbean Islands.Friedman was president and general manager of the Castaways Hotel and Casino and the Silver Slipper Casino in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip for thirteen years. He transformed them from perennial losers into super successes, consistently in the top of Nevada's highest profit-per-square-foot performers.Casino Management explores all the aspects of the business and economic analysis of the gaming industry. It evaluates marketing, hosting, comps, junkets, entertainment and the value of groups. Credit is explained, verification, authorization and collection. The operation of the games, tables, slots, keno, poker and sports book is explained.

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EPISODE 130--James 'SplitSuit' Sweeney- Dynamic Full Ring Poker and Red Chip Poker(withD.Hull and C.Soto)

James 'SplitSuit' Sweeney is a highly respected poker coach in the online poker community and have coached hundreds of students.His brain child, Dynamic Full Ring Poker, is very well-received in the community and is universally lauded as the go-to poker book for ground-breaking strategies. YOU WILL LEARN:• How to correctly run monster bluffs ... SECRETS REVEALED on page 277! • How to hand read better by following CardRunners coach James “SplitSuit” Sweeney’s hand reading tactics ... See page 110• How to estimate your opponents’ hand ranges in a few seconds ... Go to page 107 • How to exploit your opponents and their likely holdings ... SECRETS REVEALED on page 179 • How to profitably c-bet, lead, raise, float, double-barrel, check-raise ... Read page 125 • How to profile your opponent in a few seconds ... Go to page 22 • How to 3-bet and 4-bet like a huge winner ... SECRETS REVEALED on page 57! • How to interpret board textures ... See page 315• How to use pot geometry and stack-to-pot ratios (SPR) to CRUSH your opponents' strategies and bankrolls ... SECRETS REVEALED on page 109!And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There are more than 100 advanced tactics covered, all proven to work under the Las Vegas bright lights, the New York underground games, the internet, the college dorms, the kitchen home games, and much more. You don't need advanced math or a high IQ to crush poker. You need the right strategies and that's exactly what Dynamic Full Ring Poker delivers. James ‘SplitSuit’ Sweeney began playing poker in 2004. What started as home games and smaller tournaments soon turned into a business. From grinding live games at Turning Stone Casino, to SNGs, to PLO8 cash games, James quickly began to strengthen his poker theory and strategies. In 2007 James returned to his NLHE roots and began grinding full ring cash games. Interested in not only playing, but sharing his knowledge, he began taking on students. Over the years his coaching methedologies have only improved, and he has coached over 300 students in that time. He also began making training videos for the once Stox Poker Training, and is now on the CardRunners roster as well. Teaching has been a passion of James’, and poker was the perfect outlet given the various strategic levels the game offers. In late 2010 James finished his first book, and he plans on writing another one in 2011. While poker will always be a semi-professional avenue for him, James hopes to always be teaching at a professional level. A graduate in Marketing from Syracuse University, James coaches and offers various coaching mediums at splitsuit.com.

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EPISODE 132--Ed Miller--:Poker's 1%: The One Big Secret That Keeps Elite Players On Top

“In a few years the book will be a poker all time classic. This is the theoretical basis to modern cash game winning poker play”. Antonios Fountouris on March 30, 2014 about Ed Miller's book :Poker's 1%: The One Big Secret That Keeps Elite Players On Top The book will explaine why elite poker players aren't like the rest of us. Sure, they play in huge games where tens of thousands of dollars can move in the blink of an eye. But that's not the only difference. Elite players play and think about the game in a completely different way from everyone else. If you want to raise your game to their level, it's not just a matter of getting a little better at what you already do. The honest truth is that the way 99% of poker players approach the game is fundamentally flawed. You will never be able to crack the top 1% until you know what they know. There's one big secret to the game that nearly every elite player knows, yet almost no one else understands. It's an open secret-no one is hiding it. Elite players talk about it sometimes in videos and articles. Nevertheless, top players have known this secret for years, yet still almost no one else does. Poker's 1% seeks to change that. It bridges that gap between the elite players and everyone else. It promises that as long as you are willing to put in the work, you too have a shot to reach the top. Poker's 1% teaches a way of thinking about how you play, a way to unify every hand you've ever played and ever will play into one single, overarching strategy. The goal is that you will have one big "aha" moment, the moment where you finally "get" this game. After that, it's just fine tuning. The more you fine tune your strategy, the more you win, and the higher you can go. Poker's 1% gives you a unique window into the secrets of the world's best players. It shows you what you've been doing wrong and how to fix it. And, most importantly, it guides you in a straightforward way along the path from average player to elite.