- Podcast profile and all recommended resources by category
- Most recommended tools and resources
- Most recommended books (this post)
- Most recommended gambling operators
- Most recommended data, ratings and models
- Advice on how to win long term
Over 150 books and authors have been recommended on the podcast. These are the most common and relevant recommendations. Less than half are specifically about gambling!
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Are recommended 16 times by 11 guests. Taleb writes about markets, trading, probability, randomness and uncertainty.
Edward O. Thorp
- A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I beat the dealer and the market
- The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion: Theory and practice
- Beat the Dealer: A winning strategy for the game of twenty-one
They are recommended 7 times by 4 guests (mostly A Man For All Markets).
Thorp is one of the first people to document successful card counting and inspired a generation of advantage gamblers. He writes about the similarities between making money gambling and in financial markets.
Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, Fast and Slow
Michael Lewis – Moneyball: The art of winning an unfair game
Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers: The story of success
Richard H. Thaler –Misbehaving: The making of behavioural economics
All of this is addressed with humour and lots of funny stories.
Honorable mentions
Basketball on Paper: Rules and tools for performance analysisEd Miller, Matthew Davidow
The logic of sports bettingJames Surowiecki
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies and nations
Stanford Wong
Sharp sports betting
William Poundstone
Fortune’s formula
Reading lists on GoodReads
- I put the 15 most commonly recommended books (the books that appear in this post) in the GoodReads reading list on this link
- I have put 74 out of all 75 recommended books into the GoodReads reading list (1 book is not on GoodReads)
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