Download or read book A Hustler s Game written by David Harris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DeJuan Walker is tired of settling for two-bit hustles on Chicago's south side. When he decides to relocate to Florida, he reinvents himself as "Dee Walk" and sets up his own organization for selling drugs and funnelling the money into the community. Things get tense when a rival sets him up for the murder of a SWAT team.
Download or read book Game Over written by Azie Faison and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cautionary tale about the life of former kingpin Azie Faison, who has become the fabric of street legend Faison was a ninth grade dropout who earned more than $100,000 a week selling cocaine in Harlem, New York, during the peak of America's "War on Drugs" between 1983 and 1990. Faison, along with two partners, was an urban prince with cars, jewels, and people -- in awe of this million-dollar phenomenon -- at his feet. His legacy has been praised by hip-hop's top names in their lyrics, and his life was the basis for the urban cult classic film Paid in Full starring Mekhi Phifer, Wood Harris, and rapper Cam'ron and produced by Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Films. In Game Over, Azie brings forth a powerful memoir of New York's perilous drug underworld and music industry, with an intellect and wisdom to empower and challenge the street culture he knows so very well.
Download or read book Hustlers Beats and Others written by James W. VanStone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from pool hustling to pornography, this book analyzes deviant branches of American life, dispels misconceptions about them, and throws new light on sociological theory and method. Each chapter radically dissents from one or more mainstream opinions about deviance. The first chapter examines the alleged causes for the decline of American poolrooms and finds them wanting, traces the rise and fall of poolrooms to historical changes in America's social structure, and cogently dissects the recent poolroom revival. The second chapter, reports a field study of a deviant occupation, pool hustling, describing the hustler's work situation and career from recruitment to retirement. In revealing how pool hustlers, although dedicated wholly to a vocation that merely breaks unenforced gambling laws, frequently supplement their income by means of outright felonies, the author develops a new theory of "crime as moonlighting." The third chapter sharply criticizes our criminology textbooks for avoiding the study of uncaught adult criminals in their natural environments. It demonstrates such research to be both necessary and practical with career felons as well as moonlighters. The author describes field techniques he has used with career felons, offers new findings gleaned by means of these techniques, and answers moral objections to such research. The forth chapter presents the first genuinely empirical study of the beat delinquent sub-culture, in which the author corrects some journalistic views such as that most beats are exhibitionists and some sociological ones such as that "retreatist" drug-users can meet neither legitimate nor criminal success norms. The final chapter, on the sociology of pornography, holds that the courts are wrong to claim that naturalistic erotic art is non-pornographic, and wronger still to claim that hard-core pornography is, in Mr. Justice Brennan's words, "utterly without redeeming social importance." The author's unusual blend of
Download or read book Mathematics of The Big Four Casino Table Games written by Mark Bollman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics is the basis of casino games, which are the bedrock of a $100 billion/year industry. Mathematics of the Big Four Casino Table Games: Blackjack, Baccarat, Craps, & Roulette takes an in-depth look at the four biggest table games in casinos: blackjack, baccarat, craps, and roulette. It guides readers through the mathematical principles that underpin these games and their different variations, providing insights that will be of huge interest to gamblers, casino managers, researchers, and students of mathematics. Features A valuable teaching resource, replete with exercises, for any course on gambling mathematics Suitable for a wide audience of professionals, researchers, and students Many practical applications for the gambling industry Mark Bollman is Professor of Mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science at Albion College in Albion, Michigan, and has taught 116 different courses in his career. Among these courses is "Mathematics of the Gaming Industry," where mathematics majors carefully study the math behind games of chance and travel to Las Vegas, Nevada, in order to compare theory and practice. He has also taken those ideas into Albion’s Honors Program in "Great Issues in Humanities: Perspectives on Gambling," which considers gambling from literary, philosophical, and historical points of view as well as mathematically. Mark has also authored Basic Gambling Mathematics: The Numbers Behind the Neon, Mathematics of Keno and Lotteries, and Mathematics of Casino Carnival Games.
Download or read book Why Pool Hustlers Win written by Allan P. Sand and published by Allan P. Sand. This book was released on with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonder if you were hustled or sharked? This book explains how pool hustlers use various tricks (sharks) to bend and break the concepts of sportsmanship. Their tricks are exposed in detail – including specific instructions on how to respond. Some of these sharking tricks are amateur hour only – commonly seen among bar-bangers and teenage shooters. The sophisticated and slick tricks are also described. These are all meant to be mental distractions designed to help you lose games and money. To play competitive table billiards, you need more than good pocketing and positioning skills. It takes a keen awareness of your opponent and his actions. If he is a hustler, this book gives you the tools to recognize and stop anything he does.
Download or read book Hustler s Dreams Federal Nightmares written by Amir Sanchez and published by Urban Soul. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The game once had three major rules that were never to be broken or compromised, regardless of how serious things got in one's life. Death before dishonor was more than just a code; it was the law of the streets, written in the blood of the OGs who killed and died upholding it. Back then, there were many rewards for those who followed the codes. On the other hand, the penalty was death for anyone who violated the laws, and anybody close to him. At the very least, that person would be blackballed from the hood and any illegal street ventures. Clearly the game as we once knew it has been changed by today's hustlers, gangsters, and crooks. Most of them have strayed far from the script. The majority of them would rather save their asses than save face. They would sooner live with shame and disgrace than die with honor and respect. With the current status of the game and the sheisty individuals who are playing it, is there anyone who will honor the past and acknowledge the rules of the game for what they used to be? A newcomer to the urban lit scene, Amir Sanchez delivers a realistic, gripping story of life on the streets, where hustlers still rule, but honor and loyalty have taken on new meaning.
Download or read book Cowboys Gamblers and Hustlers written by Bryon Wolford and published by Cardoza Publishing. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inside looks at the early glory days of hold'em, playing in smoky backrooms with legends such as Titanic Thompson and Doyle Brunson. Get a look at vintage Las Vegas when Cowboy's friend, Benny Binion ruled Glitter Gulch and ride along with the road gamblers as they faded the white line from Dallas to Shreveport to Houston in the 1960s in search of games. Read fascinating yarns about life on the rough and tumble, and colorful adventures as a road gambler; feel the fear and frustration of being hijacked, getting arrested for playing poker, and having to outwit card sharps and scam artists. Wolford survived it all to win a gold bracelet at the World Series playing with poker greats Amarillo Slim Preston, Johnny Moss and 1978 World Champion, Bobby Baldwin. Wolford also won 30 rodeo belt buckles. Baldwin says, Cowboy is probably the best gambling story teller in the world.
Download or read book The Rules of the Street Game That Every Hustler Should Know written by Bryan G. Prince Blanton and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-02 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written and dedicated to all of the young hustlers, gangsta's, and players who choose to participate in the ghetto game. Because what you don't know can surely kill you, therefore, it's about time to set the rules straight! "For it's a lot of you hustlers out there in the world, who's caught-up in the street game, but got the rules missing." Your father, uncles, or big brothers never had a chance to properly lace you in the game, so you guys are out there getting caught-up on stupid shit that is costing you your life. And a lot of you hustlers do have a lot of game and knowledge about yourself, but it's the things that you don't know or shall I say, that you never been properly exposed to that is getting you caught-up. And it's only right that I take the initiative to try to give you this wisdom and lace you in the Real Rules of life, which will broaden your understanding of the street game, and help you to better understand the consequences, pain, and scandalous deception that do exist out there. Hopefully, this will help you to make a logical decision on whether or not the game is for you? My only objective here is to educate you with the real and true facts that exist in the ghetto games. I'm not trying to inspire you to do wrong, nor do I encourage anyone to get involved in any type of criminal activities. I only desire to teach you the rules to the ghetto games, so that you can determine what is right or wrong for you! And make the decisions as to the path that you chose to take. I took mine, and it resulted in almost a lifetime in the prison system. And many others have made the same bad decisions and mistakes that I've made. That's why now; you have something that we never had that will provide you with a better understanding of the game that a lot of us who fucked our life off didn't have, a chance not to make that same mistake as we did. We all only have one life to live, and the choices that you make will surely determine the outcome of your journey through life. So in delivering this new and powerful urban message to you, it's only right that you pass this information along to your friends, comrades, family, brothers, and cousins! Because the more people who become aware of these very important rules, then the better the game would be, "No telling, this book might stop a young hustler from snitching on you, and others if he get's caught-up, or it might even save your life." The game is deep, and the more people who know about it, then the better off we all are. "Feel me!"
Download or read book A Hustler s Tale written by C.J. Land and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hustlers Tale Welcome to the world of shadows where everthing is not what it seems. A world where conmen, pimps, drug dealers and thieves struggle daily to survive and prosper. The rules are different in the world of shadows and the games played are for keeps. In the drug-ridden streets of Cleveland, Darius Javon a charismatic conman at the top of his game pursues his dream of becoming a multi-millionaire. The cons and scams which he runs on the Banks take intricate planning and nerves of steel to pull off. But robbing banks is the least of his problems. FBI agents are in hot pursuit of a certain elusive conman who is making a mockery of the banking system in the country. He is consider a threat to the Economy of the United States, because he robs with an ink pen and a smile leaving the female tellers wishing he would come again. While barely staying one step ahead of the FEDs he inadvertantly kidnap a woman bringing the wrath of a very dangerous man down on him. With the FEDs and the criminal underworld closing in on him, Darius must make some real hard decisions that may cost him his life or his freedom. The deadly game he is playing is about to come to an abrupt end. There can be only one winner and Darius is determined to make sure its him. He will live by the game or die by the game but the game must be played.
Download or read book The Sports Writing Handbook written by Thomas Fensch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely revised and updated in a second edition, this volume represents the only book ever written that analyzes sports writing and presents it as "exceptional" writing. Other books discuss sports writers as "beat reporters" in one area of journalism, whereas this book shows aspiring sports writers a myriad of techniques to make their writing stand out. It takes the reader through the entire process of sports writing: observation, interviewing techniques, and various structures of articles; types of "leads;" transitions within an article; types of endings; use of statistics; do's and don'ts of sports writing; and many other style and technique points. This text provides over 100 examples of leads drawn from newspapers and magazines throughout the country, and also offers up-to-date examples of sports jargon from virtually every major and minor sport played in the U.S.
Download or read book Hustlers and Con Men written by Jay Robert Nash and published by M Evans & Company. This book was released on 1976-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anecdotal accounts of the most successful, most outrageous, and most expert scammers, flim-flammers, swindlers, and sharpers of the past two hundred years provide grist for Barnum's mill
Download or read book Playing Off the Rail written by David McCumber and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 17, David McCumber was stricken with "road fever" that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two years later, he got the chance to follow that dream-not as a player but as the "stakehorse" (financial backer) for Tony Annigoni, a non-smoking, macrobiotic-eating "Renaissance Pool Hustler," student of Eastern religion, and master of the pure green-felt poetry of the dead stroke." With $27,000 in David's pocket they took off together on an astonishing four-month odyssey across America-traveling from seedy, hole-in-the-wall billiard parlors to high-class snooker rooms to high-tension pro tourneys, from Seattle to Miami and back again-exploring a shady twilight subculture and uniquely American mythos, in search of serious money, local glory...and the perfect hustle.
Download or read book A Guardian Angel for a Poor Jilted Harvard Dropout Vagabond Pool Hustler written by Bobby Dee Ticer and published by Variocity. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jilted by his fiancie and betrayed by his best friend, Dave Vanguard leaves his privileged existence as a Harvard Law School student and travels west to Oregon to search for his identity and make a life for himself. He helps a family there in their business venture and teaches their daughter to play pool until the accusation of his involvement in the abduction of a three-year-old girl and the jealous rage of a fellow named Mean Dean forces Dave to fight for his life.
Download or read book Exploitative Play in Live Poker written by Alexander Fitzgerald and published by D&B Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many poker players can make good decisions at the table with a reasonable frequency. Nevertheless, there are numerous situations where even very experienced players behave in predictable ways. These deeply-ingrained habits lead them to make mistakes. The problem is that these situations won’t often arise at the table by chance – you have to make them happen. Exploitative Play in Live Poker is a ground-breaking work that teaches you how to create the circumstances where your opponents will be likely to blunder and how to exploit them when they do. To achieve this you will need to put to one side starting hand charts, balance and GTO (Game Theory Optimal) play. Instead you will incorporate new concepts that may well place you outside your comfort zone. However, your style will now be forcing the other players at the table outside of their comfort zone and, unlike you, they won’t know how to adapt. Learn how to: Counter the auto-continuation-bettorDevelop a powerful donk-betting strategyUse the overbet, the check-raise and the three-barrel effectively As well as being a highly successful player, Alex Fitzgerald runs a poker consultancy that serves more than 1,000 professional poker players in 60 countries. As part of this work, he has very likely trawled through more hand history databases than anyone else. This gives him a unique insight into how players really play, especially when placed under pressure and forced into unfamiliar situations.
Download or read book The Art of H U S T L I N G 101 written by Cavonza Teasley and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how H.U.S.T.L.I.N.G the right way can change your way of thinking, because the wrong way didn't change nothing. Knowing how to play the game will change your life forever mentally, physically, and financially. This is definitively not one of those books trying to tell you how to hustle or giving you boring advice of what other people have done to become successful. Instead you will learn how to BE-come the HUSTLER you always wanted to BE or already are. You should never leave home without this book, because it should be your personal guide to the game. It's the perfect How To book for anyone who may find themselves in a tough situation or in doubt about who they really are. In other words, if you're a hustler or a costumer? It's also a survival kit to life, because you can only BE the person you were meant to BE.By the time you finish reading this book, you will be equipped with all the tools you need to open any door of opportunity, because opportunity + preparation= Good Luck!You're going to learn the art, the rules, and the secrets to the game that can make anybody successful. It doesn't matter what you do for a living, because this book is for everyone especially if your main goal is to better yourself mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and financially.No matter your age, race, gender, or class, this book is going to teach you the ABC'S to the game, because when it comes to hustling we're all created equal.
Download or read book The Mississippi Byrd written by Shedrick Byrd and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mississippi Byrd: From Rural to Urban to Suburban and Beyond was written at the encouragement of many of his relatives and friends to motivate a larger audience. It is filled with challenges, excitement, and scintillation as it chronicles some of his adventure and misadventures. The book describes the tracks of Byrd’s life from rural Mississippi to urban Gary, Indiana to suburban Ann Arbor, Michigan and beyond including twenty years of service and travel in the U.S. Navy. Join Byrd in the experiences, the travel and the transformation of his life as well as the summation of Lessons learned.
Download or read book The Pimp Game written by Mickey Royal and published by Mikail Sharif. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former Hollywood king reveals secret techniques with proven results on mastering the art of submission. A look inside of the mind of the master as well as a chilling peek into the shadow world. A modern-day guide parallel to The Prince by Machiavelli (link). This book gives a panoramic view of the psychology that goes into the complete control over others-mind, body and spirit. Secrets known by a select sect and mastered by an elite few are finally exposed. The Pimp Game thoroughly explains how these methods are being practiced, performed, and perfected every day, everywhere right up to, and including the Oval office.
