SPORTS BETTING



2 Recommended Books

Sharp Sports Betting by Stanford Wong

Stanford Wong is best known for his expertise at blackjack (Professional Blackjack, Basic Blackjack, and Blackjack Analyzer, among others). In this new book, Wong trains his focus upon the world of sports betting. Betting against the spread, the money line, totals, parlays, teasers, props, money management, even betting on the Internet—it’s all covered in Sharp Sports Betting. But this is not just a book about how to bet. Just in time for football season, Sharp Sports Betting is packed with the specific information you need to handicap the NFL: historical results against the spread, home field advantage, playing against Super Bowl Champions, and more. Sharp Sports Betting is one of the most eagerly anticipated gambling books in years.

Beat the Sports Books by Dan Gordon

A great companion to Stanford Wong’s Sharp Sports Betting, Dan Gordon’s Beat the Sports Books concentrates on the one area that Wong doesn’t: fundamental handicapping. While Wong provides the mathematics that lets you bet once the handicapping is done, Gordon tells you how to use available data to create and maintain "power ratings" that will bolster your picks. This second edition reveals a number of strong betting models that have withstood the test of time and shows, for the first time, exactly how many points Gordon's betting models change the power ratings on a game, making them more accurate than ever. What's more, in this edition, Gordon uses value in selecting games during the first four games of the season, rather than just from the fifth game on. Gordon knows what he’s talking about. His sports betting columns have appeared in the New York Daily News, San Francisco Examiner, Boston Herald, and Pro Football Newsweekly.