Gambling Wizards: Conversations with the World’s Greatest Gamblers

March 12, 2010 winner 5 comments

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Get into the minds of the greatest gamblers of all time with this 2002 release from Huntington Press, Gambling Wizards by Richard W. Munchkin. Read in-depth interviews with eight masters of the games. Learn how they think, how they play, and what made them successful.

The interview subjects include: Billy Walters (sports betting), Chip Reese (poker), Doyle Brunson (poker), Mike Svobodny (backgammon), Stan Tomchin (backgammon and sports betting), Cathy Hulbert (blackjack and poker), Alan Woods (blackjack and horse racing), and Tommy Hyland (blackjack).

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Written by Anonymous about 6 months ago.

This book helped me incredibly understand the odds and help beat the casino at their games. I recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5
Written by Maximillion Jones about 6 months ago.

This is an easy, fun and exciting read that will be enjoyed by anyone who’s ever placed their fate in the hands of the gambling gods.
After you read it, you’ll soon realize that the real gods of gambling are the seven guys (that you’ve probably never heard of) featured in the book who learned early on that Lady Luck is a fickle broad who’s best left at home.
Rating: 5 / 5
Written by Fred Corsiglia about 6 months ago.

This book contains a series of 8 interviews with gamblers across a range of games (backgammon, horse racing, poker, other) of proportionate length and content. There is a standard range of in each discussion including youth, introduction to gaming, books, going broke, children and recommendations to others. Each interview is structured as an open ended question and answer session.

The author is not famliar with some of the answers as evidenced by reference to Harvel (for Harville) and may have lost other details in the transcription. An interesting aspect of the book is the definition of gaming slang (e.g. going broke). None of the questions are very pointed and the answers are equally dull. There is nothing about the questions or answers which is going to “open the bank” for any one. Instead, the book points to hard work and frequent losing streaks for the interviewees. Recent interest in poker may stimulate some interest. It was interesting to compare and contrast the answers and come away with my own picture regarding the key factors to success.
Rating: 4 / 5
Written by Klinsmann about 6 months ago.

Do not expect this book to tell you anything about how the professional gamblers bet or what they perceive the right betting strategy is or how money management is about. This book is just some kind of fiction. By adopting a question-answer or interview approach, this book reveals how those professional gamblers started his/her first betting, how they became professional gamblers and what their interesting experiences were. This book is more of a leisure reading.

Rating: 3 / 5
Written by Adam Lynch about 6 months ago.

Gambling Wizards is for two types of readers: gamblers who understand the environment; and those that get the jitters buying a $1 lottery ticket. If you want to travel past the glitz and into the minds of a select group of people who are skilled professionals buy this book. The true stories titillate, provide insider information, and offer advice on how to avoid ending up a sucker.
Rating: 5 / 5

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