Easy Money
Inside the Gambler's Mind
ISBN-13: 9781843440291
Contributor(s): David Spanier
Subject: Gambling
Publisher Imprint: High Stakes Publishing
Publication Date: 04-05-2006
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£9.99
About the book
Study of the psychological motivation of gamblers, portraying the personalities and legends of the gambling world. Spanier ranges widely over his subject but concentrates primarily on the human side of gambling rather than the mathematical or theoretical. While he is comfortable discussing Freudian analysis of the compulsive gambler, his real emphasis is on individuals: the mathematician who devised a way to beat the house advantage at blackjack; and the cleric who founded Gambler's Anonymous; the physician who started a gambler's hospital.