American Roulette: How I Turned the Odds Upside Down---My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off the World's Casinos (Thomas Dunne Books) |
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 795 EAN: 9780312336011 ISBN: 0312336012 Label: St. Martin's Griffin Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: November 08, 2004 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Release Date: October 28, 2004 Studio: St. Martin's Griffin Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: In American Roulette, Richard Marcus tells his never-before-heard story, of ripping off casinos. The book follows Marcus, along with several of the world's great professional casino cheaters, as he travels from Las Vegas to London and Monte Carlo, pilfering large sums of money from casinos by performing sleight of hand magic tricks with gaming chips. As skilled cheaters, they back up their moves with psychological setups to convince pit bosses that they're watching legitimate high rollers getting lucky, while in fact they're being ripped off blind. With the exploding growth of casino gambling, heightened by Indian reservation and riverboat expansion, more and more elaborate casino cheaters are illegally assaulting the green-felt, getting rich off of novice casino personnel. Richard Marcus's insider story is a window into the hidden world of intriguing personalities and tense situations he encounters as a member of expert casino-cheating teams who use their wits to turn the odds upside down and "earn" millions. American Roulette is a fascinating story not only for those who occasionally casino-gamble, but for everyone with a little larceny in their heart. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - W H Y......C H E A T...?????To me, this book is far more of a biography than a "how-to" on learning roulette. Yes -- it teaches you how to cheat....but why cheat? Roulette is a game one can win at WITHOUT cheating! Read the books of JOHN GOLLEHON, FRANK SCOBLETE, and R.D. ELLISON, (who wrote the No.1 rated book on roulette, here on Amazon, instead.) Gamblers have a bad enough reputation as it is. Cheating makes this reputation worse -- for everyone! Cheating can lead to being banned from a casino -- and also being "man-handled", if one is not careful. And -- cheating at roulette is, as I have said, totally unecessary if one is methodical and careful. Make money, have fun, give tips to the casino personell and be satisfied with $150 a day. That's more than most people make! "Winners never cheat, and cheaters never win!" Not in the long-run, anyway. I suppose this book is an entertaining biographical read. But I got SO upset at the lack of instruction on how really to PLAY roulette, and not to cheat at it, that I could only skim the copy I got from the library -- then sadly put it down. To really LEARN roulette, check out the books written by the authors I name above! Rating:  - incredible storyThis story is great. It keeps you going with chases and backroom scenes. The only detractor for me was that it falls into one common memoir trap - repetition. I don't really need to know about every single time they cheat in the exact same way. That said, many of the descriptions of people are great. It's not often that you find a book describing people from the point of view of how easily they can be cheated. My favorite was "old grumpy," a casino floorman who always blamed his dealers for the mistakes they made, and never guessed that the players might be "helping" the dealer make the mistakes. Rating:  - Greatest Casino Cheat in HistoryOne of the most interesting books on casino cheating ever written. Richard and his team took the classic gambling move of past posting and perfected it as has never been done before. And when casino technology started to catch up Richard completely switched it around with the Savannah move. Brilliant. Richard goes into detail on the psychological aspect of casino cheating, which is really the most important part. Fascinating in every way, he makes you feel as if you are right along side him and you can almost feel the "steam". I look forward to a part II as I'm sure Richard has more fascinating stories to tell. Rating: - If you don't how to read, then read this bookI can see how this book got five stars across the board. I could not put this book down. It was a fast paced read. I never heard of past-posting until this book came out. It is interesting to read the author's progression into the cheating schemes and how the schemes are improved over time. I highly recommend this book, especially for those who don't like to read or don't know how to read. Rating: - Great book, hard to put downVery entertaining book. Just reading it, I could feel my adrenaline level rise. It felt like I was there in the casinos, trying to avoid the watchful eye of the security cameras. If you liked Bringing Down the House, I think you'll like this book too. Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display |
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