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

By: Michael Kaplan

Narrated by: 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.

What happened in the second half?

the first half of the book was great. when I think advantage players, I think card counters and other types of gamblers and the first half delivered on this very well. then it started getting weird and just continued to spiral out of control until I had to shut it off. from weird art collectors to prostitutes and porn stars, the author goes out of his way to stretch his smut into 'advantage play'. it's a shame because I really liked a lot of it.

-EV

using digitized voice for a book about AP seems very -EV to me, hard to listen to IMO...if you need someone to read the book hit me up :)

Great story but voice technology needs work

Great stories throughout but the digital voice over instead of a human reading it make for many clunky pronunciations and annoying mistakes.

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.

Eh

The AI narrator ruins it. An actual person narrating would have made this 10x better.