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:: Books on Sports Betting ::

Education of a Sports Bettor
by Bob McCune
Ring-bound: 160 pages ; (March 25, 2002)
Publisher: Flying m Group; Spiral edition
ISBN: 0963650068

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Book Description
If you're already a successful handicapper get ready to improve your bottom line immediately and dramatically. If you're a recreational bettor wanting to expand your hobby this work will cut years from your learning time. Expert or beginner, you will be glad you got this book. The author covers everything it takes to be a successful sports bettor, including sections on how to predict winners in football, basketball and baseball, along with a thorough explanation of successful money management. Includes interviews with successful pro gamblers explaining 'how they do it'.

Betting the Line: Sports Wagering in American Life by Richard O. Davies, Richard G. Abram
Paperback: 208 pages ; (December 2001)
Publisher: Ohio State University Press;
ISBN: 0814250785

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Davies and Abram deliver a comprehensive history of one form of gambling you won't find on a riverboat--sports betting. Even early American settlers bet on games, say the authors, which is why they call their first chapter "A People of Chance." The book covers the gamut, from the infamous Black Sox scandal of 1919 to the birth of the point spread; from Damon Runyon's romanticized version of the thugs and mugs of the '30s and '40s to the birth of sports on television, which brought "betting the line" to the average Joe's doorstep and led to an uprising by high-minded congressmen. When sports betting made its way to Las Vegas, a whole new world emerged, culminating in the state-of-the-art, bet-on-anything sports books found in every Vegas casino today. This thoroughly researched, engagingly written account of the history of sports betting should prove fascinating to anyone who has ever put a fiver down on the home team.

The Caesars Palace Sports Book of Betting by Bert Randolph Sugar Paperback: 186 pages ; (October 1991) St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312050585	Buy The Book
Book Description For years gambling has been, according to Sports Illustrated, "America's national pastime." Now, the most famous sports-gambling establishment in the world gives the gambler and sports fan this coverage of basketball, boxing, football, baseball, horse racing, and more.

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Some of the benefits of betting with Sports Interaction include: Fully licensed and regulated in North America, Complete Online Service, All major sports action, Widest range of betting options, Faster access to your money, 24 hour customer service, Complete confidentiality, Instant online betting by credit card, Live sports news, scores, stats etc, Las Vegas and European type betting, Minimum bet $1 - minimum deposit $20 (or equivalent amount in other currencies), No betting tax. Sporting bets in US dollars - this sportsbook is available for punters worldwide.

Sharp Sports Betting
by Stanford Wong
Paperback: 380 pages ; (September 2001)
Publisher: Pi Yee Press; ISBN: 0935926240

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Book Description
Sharp Sports Betting is better for the beginning bettor. This is a pretty thick book which might make you think there is a lot about how to handicap your own games but there really is very little on that subject. The book deals mostly with defining types of bets and only really addresses football specifically. However, the reason I gave this 4 stars is because I liked the mathematical approach to prop bets. It gives you a really good way to figure out if they are worth betting on depending on the payouts by the sportsbook. Also, as another reviewer pointed out, the charts at the end were interesting and gives you a few good angles to bet on football. I would have liked to have seen more on handicapping though and less defining of terms and bets. Overall though, Sharp Sports Betting is a pretty good book. The information is current and also addresses things like internet betting, while providing some interesting websites.

How Professional Gamblers Beat the Pro Football Pointspread by J. R. Miller
Spiral-bound: 128 pages ; 4th edition (June 1, 1997)
Publisher: Flying m Group; ISBN: 0963650009

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Book Description
The only book of its kind recommended to libraries as core reading material by Jack Short, past president, American Library Trustee Association, past president, Association of Connecticut Library Boards, appointed by United States Senate to plan first White House Conference on Library and Information Services, past chair of Connecticut State Library Advisory Committee.

This is a step-by-step explanation of how full-time gamblers beat pro football point spreads and over/under lines. Author J.R. Miller has been featured in The New York Times as one of the top sports handicappers in the world. He's been selected to Las Vegas' wall of fame, and named "...the best all-round sports handicapper on the planet" by The daily spread. Miller's 'how-to' articles first appeared in the early 1980's in such respected publications as the original gambling times magazine and the original casino magazine featured in newspapers, magazines, newsletters, & talk shows. He currently has ongoing columns in winner's edge and player's choice, and edits professional gambler Newsletter, which is available through his website.

Beat the Sports Books: An Insider's Guide to Betting the NFL by Dan Gordon
Paperback: 175 pages ; (August 1, 2001)
Publisher: RGE Publishing; ISBN: 0910575185

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The legendary Bob Martin, manager of Las Vegas's first casino sports book, said that the number of bettors who win betting pro football is so small that "it is virtually the same as if no-one won. "Yet the financial rewards for a long-term winner can be enormous. This book uncovers for the first time the trade secrets of one of the few who have consistently won. In more than 20 years as a professional sports bettor, Dan Gordon has never had a losing season betting pro football. Gordon exposes the truth about the media, sports touts, and bookmaker pitfalls that lie in wait for the beginning bettor from his insider's perspective as a professional oddsmaker, newspaper columnist, and sports media consultant.
He provides a step-by-step guide to odds, point-spreads, and public betting patterns that create opportunities for the professional bettor. He explains how to make your own lines using power ratings, motivational edges, and statistical indicators, and how to manage money and emotions for survival and maximum profits over the long haul. Football betting has become a $1 billion a year business in the legal sports books of Nevada alone. With the rapid expansion of Internet and offshore legal sports books, the interest in winning sports betting is going through unprecedented growth. According to USA Today over half of the American adult population had a financial stake of some sort in the outcome of last year's Super Bowl. Dan Gordon teaches everything a sports fan needs to know to become a winning pro football bettor.

Book On Bookies : An Inside Look At A Successful Sports Gambling Operation
by James Jeffries and Charles Oliver
Paperback: 152 pages ; (May 2000)
Paladin Press; ISBN: 1581600704

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Book Description
If you have ever wondered why the bookie always wins and you always lose, or how your bookie adjusts point spreads and in which direction, The Book on Bookies is for you. In it, you'll find all the answers you need to come out a winner, no matter what you bet on - football, baseball, horse racing, boxing, golf or any other sport. Go behind the scenes with J.J. to see how a professional sports book is set up and run. Find out all about point spreads, straight bets, half-points, parlays, exactas, teasers, exotics, sweeps money lines - everything you need to know to wager wisely . . . or to become a bookie!

The Analysis of Sports Forecasting - Modeling Parallels Between Sports Gambling and Financial by William S. Mallios
Hardcover: 312 pages ; (December 1, 1999)
Kluwer Academic Publishers; ISBN: 0792377133

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Book Description
Given the magnitude of currency speculation and sports gambling, it is surprising that the literature contains mostly negative forecasting results. Majority opinion still holds that short term fluctuations in financial markets follow random walk. In this non-random walk through financial and sports gambling markets, parallels are drawn between modeling short term currency movements and modeling outcomes of athletic encounters. The forecasting concepts and methodologies are identical; only the variables change names. If, in fact, these markets are driven by mechanisms of non-random walk, there must be some explanation for the negative forecasting results. The Analysis of Sports Forecasting: Modeling Parallels Between Sports Gambling and Financial Markets examines this issue.

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