Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos, 2nd Edition: How to Play and Win

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Not for Newbies!!

Casinos Will Be Glad You Read It!

If you want to win in Vegas don't buy this book

A lot of redundancy

Just so much hype

Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos, 2nd Edition: How to Play and Win
Frank Scoblete
Manufacturer: Bonus Books
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Book Description

Until now, craps has been considered an unbeatable casino game because the house has an edge on every bet. Learn how to beat the system in this new edtion of the bestselling book on craps.

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Not for Newbies!!.......2007-08-25

This book is not for newbies! Frank Scoblete teaches a new method for craps that I just could not understand. I was looking for something more basic.

Casinos Will Be Glad You Read It!.......2007-03-24

In reading this book I found absolutely nothing that would be anything close to a winning system. The "Five Count" and all variations, when tested at length is merely a way of limiting your losses in hopes of staying at the table longer and hitting a hot roll before you run out of money. As with most craps books this one may teach you to manage your money and remind you about discipline.

If you want to win in Vegas don't buy this book.......2007-01-10

I started playing craps this past year and really enjoy playing the game. Naturally, I wanted to develop my skills and use my new fascination to make a little money, opposed to placing wild bets that seldomly paid out. I purchased this book to attempt to beat the system with mathematical odds. While this book does touch on the mathetical odds of the game the strategy recommended by the author appears to be based on superstition, rather than mathematics. As such, I believe the Supersystem to be inherently flawed. I would not recommend employing this system in the Casino if you want to make money. Good luck and happy gambling.

A lot of redundancy.......2006-08-08

The 5-count contents is less than 1/8 of the book. The rest are redundancy of author's other books. I do not see the logic in the 5-count except to prolong playing time for casino handout.

Just so much hype.......2006-07-15

Having had 20 years of casino work, most of it in the dice pits, the best I could say about this book is that it was "amusing."

I saw it in the book store, then looked for it in our local library, wasn't about to buy it.

Some one who would actually play the way the book calls for is called a "grinder". Don't let Scoblete fool you, the house knows who wins and who loses, and who is trying to make it appearto be giving the house good action - appear to- just to get their rating padded - and thus get more comps.

"Hedge bets" as described in the book - betting both Come Bets and Don't Come bets, is what is economic suicide.

As for the "Crazy Crapper" bets, while wise guys hang on the tables telling people not to bet them, the people betting them (if they're hitting) color out and go to the cage while the "wise guys" go to the ATM.

Setting the dice and throwing "rhytmically" are casino urban legend at best. It ust doesn't work. Well, it might work to get the person doing it noticed as a suspected dice slider.

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Covers the basics, but I've read better

Beat The Craps Table!
Marten Jensen
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Covers the basics, but I've read better.......2006-02-13

This book covers the basics to help you understand the layout, the odds, and the flow of a game of craps. However, I feel that it falls short of other books I have read when it comes to exploring various styles or systems of play. For that, I would recommend John Patrick's books on Craps.

I consider this a 3 star book except for one thing. Chapter 9 (if I remember right) has an excellent chart of odds for the various bets/payoffs around the table. It brings it all together in one easy-to-understand chart. I gave an extra star for that chart gathering up all the information for me in one place.

It's not a bad book. I just don't feel it gave me any new insights to the game.

Beat The House: Sixteen Ways to Win at Blackjack, Roulette, Craps, Baccarat and Other Table Games

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Some comedy value
Pure drivel
Almost useless
Read this and ye shall know all
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Beat The House: Sixteen Ways to Win at Blackjack, Roulette, Craps, Baccarat and Other Table Games
Frederick Lembeck
Manufacturer: Citadel
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ASIN: 0806516070

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Some comedy value.......2007-08-05

I bought this book based on its claim to provide mathematically sound analysis of gambling games, based on stock market strategies.

Reading it led me to the conclusion that the author does not have even rudimentary knowledge of probability, expectation or house percentage. His "analysis" consists of doing sets of 100 rolls of dice on his kitchen table!

He then goes on to the inescapable conclusion (to him) that the casinos are "cheating", since his schemes don't work there.

I was so disgusted that I took the time to complain to the publisher, and ended up corresponding to the author himself, who repeated those claims. I even took the time to do a trivial analysis of his "half-peak" system, together with some extensive computer runs, just to show him how bad the systems are.

Pure drivel.......2004-08-22

This book looks interesting at first but after reading and re-reading it and studying and testing the various systems offered I can honestly say the book is worthless and you will lose a lot of money if you try Lembeck's systems at a casino, which the author admits he doesn't even do himself. Furthermore his assertions of "rigged" tables and that "you must stay invisible" and hop from table to table to place each bet are as ludicrous as his systems. The casinos have enough of a mathematical edge to all their games that they have no reason to rig anything, and I personally have sat with pad and paper at the roulette and baccarat tables hundreds of times taking notes and openly playing systems in full view of the players, the dealer, the pit boss and eye in the sky; short of using a computer or cell phone, the casinos could care less what you do at the roulette and baccarat tables because they are not worried about you beating them with a system, at least that has been my experience where I gamble in CT.

Almost useless.......2004-04-28

The author takes the old D'Alembert system (he doesn't even spell it right)and lists various bet choices in casino games where you can try it. What's remarkable is that he recommends NOT trying many of the variations he suggests in the book. He then goes on to admit that this system, which has been proven over and over to fail (like any other progression), actually doesn't work in a real casino, and then tries to blame casino cheating! That, combined with his religious rantings that have nothing whatever to do with the subject at hand, lead me to seriously question this guy's grip on reality. In fact, one wonders why someone who is so worried about Satan and evil is encouraging gambling in the first place. His "Mathematical Analysis" sections contain neither math nor analysis. Send me your money instead and I'll recommend much, much better books.

Read this and ye shall know all.......2003-07-02

I had gotten this book from the library about 6 years ago. After running it through the paces of a computer program, I did find that his systems do work.
The systems are based on what goes up, must come down. Well, in real life, that is not always true, at least in your bankrolls time frame. You must use money management. Also, I have found that you MUST run several progressions at the same time. It helps you ride out the ones that have gone a bit long losing.
I found his talk about poss. rigged casinos a bit dated. This was also written before online gambling, which would have been nice. He mentioned several times about the minimum table limits being too high, but they aren't too high online. Too bad those games were avoided because of this.
His talk of God and other things eternal I thought was well done, and did not go on. Plus, you can skip right over it to the systems. Would like to compare notes with others sep2034athotmail.

Good.......2002-01-30

The systems really work, that's why I gave it 5 stars, but it's too full of syrup to be a really enjoyable read.

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Excellent book with excellent examples

Useful at an architectural level but not at a development level

No nonsense, practical advice

Honest and insightfull

Excellent overview

Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices (The Coad Series)
Dirk Krafzig , Karl Banke , and Dirk Slama
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Excellent book with excellent examples.......2007-06-22

You come across very few people in life
a) who know what they are doing
b) who can teach others with good examples
c) who do not have any vested interest in sharing the knowledge.

The authors of this book come under this category. Not only they seem to have worked on many best of breed SOA projects, they have a very good ability to impart this knowledge. They discuss the pros and cons of all the options and let reader choose what is best for his/her situation.

This book seems to have the right mix of technical, management and business knowledge about SOA. Like many business oriented books it does not limit itself to discussing the organizational challenges and project management aspects. Like technical books, it does not limit itself to web services. This book opens your mind to the real IT landscape in today's organizations, particularly its heterogeneity. It opens your mind to thinking how SOA can connect these heterogeneous systems and make them productive. I have really enjoyed reading this book after completing my architect certification.

Useful at an architectural level but not at a development level.......2007-01-10

May be I was expecting too much out of this book, it provides good categorization of different types of services and the roadmap - however I feel it lacks some details on the technical implementation part as to what tools/technologies/standards are ideal to implement this architecture.

Again, may be my expectation was not realistic.

No nonsense, practical advice.......2006-11-03

Frankly, I thought SOA was just a bunch of marketing hype until I read this book. The authors begin by clearly explaining of the kinds of problems SOA is trying to solve, and how other architectures tried and failed (or partially succeeded) to solve these problems. In fact, you don't get a definition of SOA until chapter 4, which is a good thing. The advice and strategies are well-reasoned and practical. The organizational roadmap seems to be unique among SOA books, and is clearly derived from experience. The case studies highlight the kinds of tradeoffs each organization had to deal with, along with lessons learned. Finally, I found this book to be very readable and interesting.

Honest and insightfull.......2006-05-31

This is a great introduction to SOA. The authors focus on the fundamentals of SOA, displaying both wisdom and honesty as they discuss the structure of an SOA, its essential and optional elements, strategies for SOA introduction (from technical and organizational points of view), SOA oriented project management techniques, success (and failure stories), etc.

The book is refreshing in the way that it avoids the vendor induced hysteria associated with new technologies choosing instead to calmly and objectively discuss the fundamental forces driving SOA adoption: federation, heterogeneity, agility, reuse.

Additionally, the authors display a healthy dose of independence as they discuss the merits and lack thereof of over-hyped technologies such as Enterprise Service Buses and BEPL systems. This is clearly a book written by people who have actually built SOAs, as opposed to sit on WS-* committees or implement SOA related junkware.

Excellent overview.......2006-04-19

This book was an excellent broad overview of the technology related items associated with an SOA adoption. It is a good read for an IT manager or architect that is more concerned with the bigger picture. This book, combined with a book that has more of a business oriented slant, such as Service Orient or Be Doomed or Service Blueprint make a great combination for enterprise architects interested in the potential of SOA.

Best Practices in Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architecture Presentation

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Best Practices in Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architecture Presentation
ZapThink , and Jason Bloomberg
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Presentation for KnowNow Webinar on October 13, 2004. Replay is available at http://www.knownow.com/about/events.shtml.

Events vs. Services: The Real Story White Paper: Best Practices in Event-Driven SOA

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Events vs. Services: The Real Story White Paper: Best Practices in Event-Driven SOA
ZapThink , and Jason Bloomberg
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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach to distributed computing that considers software functionality as Services on the network. Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is an approach where events trigger asynchronous messages that are then sent between independent software components. Some people think that these two approaches are different, alternative takes on distributed computing, but that's not correct. In fact, SOA supports a variety of interactions, many of which are event-driven.

To truly understand the power of SOA, it's important to keep in mind that SOA represents an abstraction layer that masks the complexity of the underlying technology, including the details of how various pieces of software interact—whether via events or some other kind of message. In fact, SOA allows for a range of approaches depending upon the complexity of the underlying environment.

Book Description

Key Findings:

Service-oriented architectures built upon open, standards-based Web Services provide a strategic IT direction businesses need to meet their fundamental business goal: agility.
By 2010, ZapThink expects 69% of the total enterprise software market to be Service-oriented.
The overall market for products and services that support Service orientation will be over $98 billion by 2010.
Reworking existing brittle, high-cost IT infrastructures into flexible, Service-oriented architectures promises substantial long-term cost savings and revenue opportunities through increased business agility.
Service orientation represents the latest distributed computing approach to affect IT -- the fourth major shift since the mid-twentieth century.
ZapThink predicts that companies will begin to accept Service orientation in 2003, and it will become the dominant distributed computing approach by 2006.

Table of Contents:

I. Report Scope
II. Context for Service-Oriented Architectures
- 2.1. What is a Service-Oriented Architecture?
  - 2.1.1. Evolution of Distributed Computing
- 2.2. Business Motivations for SOAs
  - 2.2.1. The Economics of Business Agility
III. Foundations of SOA
- 3.1. SOA Foundation: Model-Driven Architecture
- 3.2. SOA Foundation: Agile Methodologies
- 3.3. The SOA Metamodel
- 3.4. The 4+1 View Model of SOA
IV. Best Practices of SOA
- 4.1. Develop a top-down, extended enterprise SOA
- 4.2. Build & maintain a platform independent Service model
- 4.3. Maintain feedback at all points of the architecture
- 4.4. Follow Agile Methodology principles & techniques within the context of the Service model
- 4.5. Encapsulate existing/legacy functionality
- 4.6. Embrace heterogeneity/follow a federation model of software
- 4.7. Compose atomic Services into coarse-grained business Services
- 4.8. Build for consumability/broad applicability
- 4.9. Perform ad hoc upgrades
- 4.10. Prioritize SOA transition activities on the fly
V. Conclusions
- 5.1. Key Notes
- 5.2. Decision Points
- 5.3. Best Practices
- 5.4. Figures
- 5.5. Tables
- VI. Profiled Vendors

SOA Modeling and Best Practices Presentation

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SOA Modeling and Best Practices Presentation
ZapThink , and Jason Bloomberg
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SOA Tools and Best Practices Report: Beyond Point-to-Point Web Services

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SOA Tools and Best Practices Report: Beyond Point-to-Point Web Services
ZapThink , and Jason Bloomberg
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Key Findings:

Service-oriented architectures built upon open, standards-based Web Services provide a strategic IT direction businesses need to meet their fundamental business goal: agility.
By 2010, ZapThink expects 69% of the total enterprise software market to be Service-oriented.
The overall market for products and services that support Service orientation will be over $98 billion by 2010.
Reworking existing brittle, high-cost IT infrastructures into flexible, Service-oriented architectures promises substantial long-term cost savings and revenue opportunities through increased business agility.
Service orientation represents the latest distributed computing approach to affect IT -- the fourth major shift since the mid-twentieth century.
ZapThink predicts that companies will begin to accept Service orientation in 2003, and it will become the dominant distributed computing approach by 2006.

Table of Contents:

I. Report Scope
II. Context for Service-Oriented Architectures
- 2.1. What is a Service-Oriented Architecture?
  - 2.1.1. Evolution of Distributed Computing
- 2.2. Business Motivations for SOAs
  - 2.2.1. The Economics of Business Agility
III. Foundations of SOA
- 3.1. SOA Foundation: Model-Driven Architecture
- 3.2. SOA Foundation: Agile Methodologies
- 3.3. The SOA Metamodel
- 3.4. The 4+1 View Model of SOA
IV. Best Practices of SOA
- 4.1. Develop a top-down, extended enterprise SOA
- 4.2. Build & maintain a platform independent Service model
- 4.3. Maintain feedback at all points of the architecture
- 4.4. Follow Agile Methodology principles & techniques within the context of the Service model
- 4.5. Encapsulate existing/legacy functionality
- 4.6. Embrace heterogeneity/follow a federation model of software
- 4.7. Compose atomic Services into coarse-grained business Services
- 4.8. Build for consumability/broad applicability
- 4.9. Perform ad hoc upgrades
- 4.10. Prioritize SOA transition activities on the fly
V. Market Segmentation
- 5.1. Current State of the Market
VI. Business and Technology Trends
- 6.1. Long Term Trends: A Shift in the Favored Approach to Distributed Computing
- 6.2. Long-Term Trends: Grid/Utility Computing
- 6.3. Inhibitors to Growth of Service Orientation and SOAs
VII. Conclusions
- 7.1. Key Notes
- 7.2. Decision Points
- 7.3. Best Practices
- 7.4. Figures
- 7.5. Tables
- VIII. Profiled Vendors

Enterprise SOA : Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices (The Coad Series)

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Enterprise SOA : Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices (The Coad Series)
et al Dirk Krafzig
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Enterprise SOA Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices
Dirk Slama
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Dirk Krafzig
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