Caption: CHARLES GOREN: "Hit-and-run. Players who stay too long bucking the house will be ground down .."Mr Goren's Handbook On Figuring the OddsBY DAN MARLOWEFor the Free Press Book PassWhen Charles Goren speaks about the game of bridge, the bridge world listens. In this book, the acknowledged master player and analyst takes a mathematical approach in instructing both the neophyte and the experienced player in the true odds facing him, whether he's bidding a grand slam or trying an elusive finesse.In fact, in "Go With The Odds," Goren goes beyond bridge, instructing in the arts of computing the correct odds and proper money management for all casino games, including craps, blackjack, chemin de fer, and roulette; for lotteries and sports; for horseracing; for poker, gin, canasta, and cribbage, to name just a few.The entire thrust of the book is aimed at persuading the player to know the odds in a given situation before attempting play. In casino games, good management can reduce the "house" odds again the player to a reasonable figure. Given then, of course, as Mr. Goren properly points out, the player who stays too long..GO WITH THE ODDS, by Charles H. Goren (Macmillan, $6.95).
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