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In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed? Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key "development bargain," whereby a country's elites shift from protecting their own positions to gambling on a growth-based future.

Have you ever felt like your wallet has a slow leak you can’t find?

In this sharp, funny and empowering guide, journalist Chris Kohler takes you through the rigged carnival of modern life, where the games are broken, the prizes are fake and somehow you’re paying $28 to park near...

Master Blackjack in Just 72 Hours! The first truly concise blackjack manual designed for fast learning and real results. Fast Track Blackjack by George K. Dermot is a step-by-step crash course that will take you from rookie to skilled player in record time. Whether you're a complete beginner or looking to sharpen your skills, this guide breaks down blackjack into an easy, three-day system, so you can play with confidence and improve your odds fast.What You’ll Learn in Just 3 Days: Day 1 – Nail the Basics: Learn the rules, card values, and foundational strategies to play your first hands...

The book " Cracking the Lottery Code. Can AI Outsmart Randomness and Predict Winning Numbers " explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and lottery systems, with a particular focus on the potential for AI to improve the accuracy and reliability of lottery predictions. The book provides an overview of the history of lottery predictions, as well as an introduction to machine learning and the different types of algorithms that can be used for lottery prediction. It also covers the process of data collection, preprocessing, and feature engineering, as well as the selection and ...

Somehow you find shopping almost addictive and can't help yourself but then, your great purchases soon mount up and you find you have spent quite a bit of money? What are the signs of overspending? What types of buyers exist, do you know? This audiobook makes a great gift and can be listened to from any section or sequentially. These days, the focus is completely on consumerism, and this can make it hard for those who simply like to browse and buy. This audiobook will provide proven insights into shopaholic spending sprees and how to stop, get out of debt, and save money.

Asmodeus Asmodeus is a book of rituals dedicated to the daemon Asmodeus, King of Daemons and King of the Jinn. This book provides detailed instructions on how to summon and work with this powerful daemon to achieve your goals of wealth and riches. Asmodeus is a powerful daemon who can grant you immense wealth and power. However, he is also a daemon of Wrath, and you must be careful not to anger him. This book will teach you how to properly summon and work with Asmodeus to get what you desire, while avoiding his wrath. With this book as your guide, you'll be able to summon Asmodeus and tap ...

What if quitting gambling wasn’t about resisting urges but rewiring your brain? You’ve tried to stop. You’ve made promises to yourself, convinced this time will be different. But somehow, you get pulled back in, leaving you drained and searching for a real way out. The stress, the constant battle…it’s exhausting. But the truth? Quitting isn’t about willpower. It’s about freeing your brain from the faulty reward loops that make gambling feel irresistible.

In The Smart Money, Michael Konik takes listeners behind the veil of secrecy shrouding the most successful sports gambling operation in America, to its innermost sanctum. He reveals how they, and he, got rich by beating the Vegas lines and, ultimately, the multi-million-dollar offshore betting circuit. He details the perks and perils of a lifestyle in which staking inordinate sums of money on the outcome of a game, sometimes as much as $1 million on a single event, is a normal part of doing business.

The first years of the poker boom were fueled by the interest in no-limit hold em tournaments. Recently, however, players have been gravitating to another, even more complex form of hold em no-limit cash games. In Harrington on Cash Games: Volume I, Dan Harrington teaches you the key concepts that drive deep-stack cash game play. You ll learn how to tailor your selection of starting hands to your stack size, how to recognize the increasing deception value of supposedly weaker hands as the stack sizes increase, and how to use the concept of pot commitment to your advantage as the size of the...

37 numbers including the zero and all you have to do is pick the right numbers and the money will rack up. Sounds simple enough, but online roulette gambling can have disastrous consequences and for one man it's the road to hell...

An ex-Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games - with a 41 percent return in his first year. Trading Bases explains how he did it. After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta was out of a job. He found a new one but lost that, too, when an ambulance mowed him down. In search of a way to cheer himself up while he recuperated, Peta started watching baseball again. That’s when inspiration hit: Why not apply his outstanding risk-analysis skills to improve on sabermetrics, the method made famous by Moneyball?

Blackjack is one of the world's most popular casino games because not only is it easy to learn and fun to play, and card counting is a simple but powerful exercise that, when executed correctly, gives you a 1 percent edge over the house. Find all the tools you need to refresh your basic blackjack strategy, perfect your card counting skills, play it cool in the casino, and rake in the dough.

Gambling is a dangerous, addictive, and expensive hobby, in fact it's the fastest growing addiction on the planet. Smart phone technology has sparked a global gambling epidemic, the temptation to gamble is now literally in the palm of our hands. Mind blowing, record breaking profits are being recorded by online casinos and sports betting companies. As a result, hard-working everyday people are gambling money they simply cannot afford to lose. I was one of the many who suffered extreme gambling addiction.

Join veteran poker player and master strategist Shayne Dice as he applies his nearly two decades of experience and mastery in the game of video poker. Inside this three-hour program, you'll learn all the tips and tricks you'll ever need to cash in big on your next casino visit or online play!

Ready to stop playing like a tourist and start dominating like a pro? This audiobook reveals the battle-tested tactics that casinos don’t want you to know. Whether it’s Blackjack, Craps, or Texas Hold’em, Oliver Romanov breaks down the exact strategies used by elite players to walk away with real winnings.

Explore the fascinating and frightening world of organized crime! Are you fascinated by the Mafia? Have you always wondered how these groups operate? Do you want to know the ugly truth about the Mafia’s serial killers? You'll learn about the most influential and famous organized crime groups in the world. You’ll also discover why the Italian mafia was invited to help the Italian government! And why that turned out to be a very, very, very bad idea....

* Best Seller Amazon Kindle Store (Poker) * Reviews "Brilliant. The tournament section blew me away. I just won a small tournament and outplayed the 2nd place player badly. I swear I would not have won two days ago, before reading this book." "I wish I had read it years ago before starting to play online poker. I think your book is great for beginning players and PERFECT for frustrated losing players." Description This is the very same, classic popular online poker strategy e-book that has been selling online for $39 a copy since 2004. Now in proper Kindle device format (as of January 2012)...

Winning Weekends: Sports Betting as a Side Hustle A Math-Based System for Profitable Weekend Wagering Sports betting isn’t about predictions. It’s about percentages. If you're still betting with your gut, you're playing the wrong game. Winning Weekends: Sports Betting as a Side Hustle shows you how to approach sports wagering the way sharp bettors do — with math, discipline, and a structured system that turns weekend action into long-term profit. This is not a book full of “locks,” “systems,” or trendy picks. It's a field manual for serious weekend bettors who want to profit ...

A man missing since an urban activist group set up a camp outside his egg farm to protest about its continued expansion in the face of unswerving local opposition. Another man who really believes murder can’t be murder unless there’s a body to show for it, and you’ve got to prove him wrong. Chief Inspector Macdonald reckons that this will all turn out to be a Chinese puzzle in the end, but will he be able to solve it if it is?

In March 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with ­million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT. With him was Ken Griffin, who was the tough-as-nails head of Citadel Investment Group. There, too, were Cliff Asness, the sharp-tongued, mercurial founder of the hedge fund AQR Capital Management, and Boaz Weinstein, chess “life master” and king of the credit-default swap.