Casinos and Gambling
Licence-protected, real-estate heavy and mathematically certain in the house's favour; the interesting risk is regulatory and financial, not statistical.
7 books · 3 people behind it
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- Casino: Love and Honor in Las VegasNicholas Pileggi, 1995
- Beat the DealerEdward O. Thorp, 1962
- Addiction by DesignNatasha Dow Schüll, 2012
The people behind it 3
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Investors 1
Academics 1
Journalists 1
Books 7
Edward O. Thorp · 1962 · Card counting; the book that forced the industry to change its rules.
Nicholas Pileggi · 1995 · The skim era and the Teamsters pension-fund financing of Las Vegas.
Natasha Dow Schüll · 2012 · Slot machine design as engineered time-on-device.
Christina Binkley · 2008 · Wynn, Adelson, Kerkorian and the megaresort capex race.
Ben Mezrich · 2002 · The MIT blackjack team; dramatised and disputed in places.