How to be a Percentage Player: An Easy Guide to Value Play for the Everyday Joe Sixpack

Enhance your lifestyle with action, entertainment, and flamboyance by learning the value play techniques in this book for sports betting, poker, and blackjack. You will become an expert casino percentage player who knows how to recognize and capitalize upon favorable expected value propositions, and you'll revel in exciting "casino action" doing so. Unlike other fixed-edge casino games, sports bets, poker, and blackjack offer predictability of future outcomes from past outcomes. This book details analytics and value play methods written with the average Joe Six Pack (beer drinking, easy chair, remote flipper) in mind. By combining smart money line criteria with selective game analytics to optimize expected value, your sports bets become fine-tuned for best results. Similarly, your poker play will benefit significantly from the techniques described herein for selective play of hands, seating position, strategic use of playing options, and insightful player profiling. Blackjack also offers exploitable opportunities by tracking cards played to deduce cards remaining. The blackjack chapter explains classic basic strategy (near break-even), condensed basic strategy (compressed classic), simple and more advanced card counting, running vs. true count conversion, casino comportment, and risk vs. bankroll management, Lastly, a casino craps bonus chapter is included. Craps does not offer predictability options from past events, but it can be played to reduce the house edge to less than 1%. The optimal craps strategy provided herein, enables playing craps for lengthy periods of "hot action", with a quite negligible house edge. Author is a veteran of the Las Vegas casino hospitality industry since prior to the 1990's Strip rebuild. As a life-long corporate employee of major casino resort conglomerates, author has accrued extensive knowledge of Casino Information Technology, Casino/Hospitality Analysis, and decades of casino patronage experience. Additionally, author is a University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) graduate with Info Systems and Casino\Resort Management degrees and has invested considerable research time at UNLV's Special Collections Gaming Research Library. Author is well versed in exploitable casino game analytics and shares herein the finer points of percentage play, predictive analytics, expected value, risk versus bankroll management, and strategic methodology. These ideas are backed up with colorful charts and illustrations, in a practical format intended to be informative and entertaining.