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Easy Money: Inside the Gambler's Mind (Paperback)

by David Spanier (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: High Stakes Publishing; New edition edition (19 Jan 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1843440296
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843440291
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 790,840 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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David Spanier studies the psychological motivation of gamblers, those who beat the system and those beaten by it, portraying the personalities and legends of the gambling world of the time. Spanier ranges widely over his subject, considering the motivations of gamesters, stressing the physical sensations they experience, the percentages and chances, heuristic principles, the differences in European and American gambling, and the criminal element in U.S. gaming, but concentrates primarily on the human side of gambling rather than the mathematical or theoretical. While he is comfortable discussing Freud's analysis of the compulsive gambler, his real emphasis is on the individuals: the mathematician who devised a way to beat the house advantage at blackjack; the London man-about-town who ran games for the upper class; the cleric who founded the British Gamblers Anonymous; the physician who established a "gamblers' hospital" in Brecksville, Ohio. This is an insider's analysis of the thrills, action, and intense emotional involvement that makes up the world of gambling.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of anecdotes and insights, 2 Nov 2007
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This book is like having a long conversation with an expert in gambling. The tone is light and engaging, the topics range from addiction to people who try to beat the house through technology or systems, from a history of Monte Carlo to characters like John Aspinall and Victor Lownes. There are literary references, religious and scientific perspectives on gambling, too.

I have hardly ever gambled in my life, but I found this book fascinating. I recommend it to any student of human nature.
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