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Beat The House: Sixteen Ways to Win at Blackjack, Roulette, Craps, Baccarat and Other Table Games |  | Author: Frederick Lembeck
Publisher: Citadel
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Pages: 183
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 Read this and ye shall know all July 2, 2003
I had gotten this book from the library about 6 years ago. After running it through the paces of a computer program, I did find that his systems do work.
The systems are based on what goes up, must come down. Well, in real life, that is not always true, at least in your bankrolls time frame. You must use money management. Also, I have found that you MUST run several progressions at the same time. It helps you ride out the ones that have gone a bit long losing.
I found his talk about poss. rigged casinos a bit dated. This was also written before online gambling, which would have been nice. He mentioned several times about the minimum table limits being too high, but they aren't too high online. Too bad those games were avoided because of this.
His talk of God and other things eternal I thought was well done, and did not go on. Plus, you can skip right over it to the systems. Would like to compare notes with others sep2034athotmail.
Good January 30, 2002
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The systems really work, that's why I gave it 5 stars, but it's too full of syrup to be a really enjoyable read.
Inspiring December 8, 2000
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
People who love the Lord will like this one very much. Atheists will despise it deeply. On the surface it appears to be a collection of mathematical gambling systems, but in his discussion of the phenomenon of luck, he gets into the role of the Almighty, and turns it into a treatise on the spiritual evolution of the human race. An unusual book, notable for its very great integrity. A fun book to read.
 Beat The House November 17, 2000
johndoe (NYC, USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Fascinating. He takes the same systems Wall Street institutional investors use to milk the stock market and uses them to milk the craps tables and roulette wheels. He hints that the casinos are crooked, and have to be kept in the dark about the fact that you're using a system, otherwise they'll allegedly cheat you. It would be nice to see some proof of this, but the systems themselves, the first one in particular, HALF PEAK, are extraordinarily thought-provoking. He would have donebetter to have just stuck to mathematical gambling systems.
 Was this book written to dupe gamblers? September 28, 1998
34 out of 36 found this review helpful
DO NOT BUY...Frederick Lembeck's "Beat the House" claims to have 16 ways to beat the casinos. Unfortunately, he fails to mention that they all rely on luck. All of his gambling systems will lose money over the long run, however Mr. Lembeck suggests throughout his book "that some tables might actually be rigged"(17). Already Mr. Lembeck is offering you a reason, why you're going to lose. It's not because of his systems, it's those dirty casinos. All of Mr. Lembeck's examples that feature a "profit" don't accurately reflect the odds of receiving a win, or conveniently place the wins where they'd be most beneficial. A true analysis reveals these systems to be flawed. As well Mr. Lembeck must of had problems coming up with content, because he continually deviates and discusses his grandiose visions about philosophy. He even states, "What I'm really interested in is something extremely different[from gambling systems]: a universally acceptable definition of sin" (122). I'm not sure how this will help me beat the house, but unfortunately I continued to read. In the closing chapter Mr. Lembeck has a stroke of genius and offers his only system that has a remote probability of working. "The ultimate system is to get God on your side" (177). Wow. Not only is this method unverifiable, but our fellow agnostics and atheists are out of luck.
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