Casino Gambling For The Clueless: A Beginner's Guide to Playing and Winning (The Clueless Guides) [Paperback]

Darwin Ortiz (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Clueless Guides | Publication Date: October 1998

Ortiz takes the pain out of gambling and offers clear, comprehensive, authoritative advice on every casino game. Charts & diagrams.

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Now anyone can learn how to win more money and have more fun at the gambling tables and slot machines. This handy and authoritative guide to blackjack, craps, roulette, keno, baccarat, and slot machines can turn a beginner into someone who plays like a pro. With a discussion of each game's rules, pitfalls, winning strategies, terminology, and variations, plus inside information on how a casino is run and tips on how to make the most of your time there, this is an indispensable guide for every gambler, from the most casual to the highest roller. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 268 pages
• Publisher: Lyle Stuart (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0818406097
• ISBN-13: 978-0818406096
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,682,075 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clueless no longer!!!, July 9, 1999

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This review is from: Casino Gambling For The Clueless: A Beginner's Guide to Playing and Winning (The Clueless Guides) (Paperback)

Don't confuse this book with the multiplying "Complete Idiots" and "Dummies" guides currently flooding the market. Darwin Ortiz's take on the ins and outs of popular casio games is highly readable in the best "you are there" style. He completely demystifies table games for people like myself who may have seen scared away from plucking down our chips due to the mistaken belief that you have to be a math whiz to figure out Craps. With the skill of travel writer who daps about plenty of color, Ortiz repeatedly hammers home that most casinos offer exotic bets that are a complete waste of your wallet. Just skip the bells and whistles and play to form. While the book is lacking in illustrations, each chapter consistantly does the job of taking you from Vegas chump to wordly shark (or the belief thereof).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic - start to finish, December 23, 2004

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CB (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casino Gambling For The Clueless: A Beginner's Guide to Playing and Winning (The Clueless Guides) (Paperback)

This book is purely fantastic from start to finish. The author clearly speaks from experience and explains the very basics of casino gambling AND builds on the basics by giving practical advanced techniques. Best of all, this book is a fun read! (not at all what I expected). You'll want to keep reading and you'll want to head straight to Vegas when you're done.
After reading this book, I was more knowledgable than, literally, all my Vegas-regular friends.

Be sure to check out the sections on Black Jack and Craps!

1 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Bother, October 28, 2003

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djhexane (Ohio, USofA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casino Gambling for the Clueless (Hardcover)

Learning how to actually play the games is all you need to know. Why waste money on this book when you can waste it in Vegas? There is no magick you will be given by this book to make you win every game you play. Don't waste you stupid time!