Advantage Players: Inside the Winning World of Casino Virtuosos, Master Strategists, and Mathematical Wizards

De: Michael Kaplan

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Renowned magazine writer Michael Kaplan has penned dozens of stories on “advantage players,” who employ various high-level techniques to beat the casinos and racetracks at their own games. You’ll meet the undisputed world’s greatest “AP,” poker and baccarat “machines,” the table-game player who beat Atlantic City for $15 million, the founder of the famed MIT blackjack team, the world’s greatest sports-betting furniture salesman, golf hustlers extraordinaire, and many more. But The Advantage Player isn’t limited to gambling. It also examines the AP strategies used by players in life’s other games, including an art dealer, stripper, male porn star, extreme magician, and financial dominatrix. And The Advantage Player’s doesn’t shy away from masterminds who cross the line from advantage play to outright illicit money grabs. In The Advantage Player, you get a rare glimpse of Olympic-caliber superstars who ply their “sport” entirely below the public radar to walk away with the gold.

Fun Story of AP, intolerable narration

The actual book is good, but the names of well known authors and APs being butchered, along with a weird cadence from the AI narration makes this a slog. Compared to human narrators, it’s not in the same league and ruins the experience of the book.

Eclectic mix of amazing factual entertaining and oft humerous tales of the ingenuity of people to get an edge , and win

I thought this was mainly gambling but that’s because the great man Anthony Curtis published it and it’s promoted on his web and pod and web site Las Vegas Visitor . The author and journalist Michael Kaplan has the human touch in his writing , he tells the stories as well as Henry Miller or J.P Donleavy , Engaging entertaining , informative and humorous. I bought the hard cover and also listened to it on Audible.Com not presently available on Audible .co.uk . Great Book , please buy as it will encourage Michael to revisit many of his past articles in book form . Big thanks Michael.