Advantage Players

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.