Avery Cardoza
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Avery Cardoza (b. 1957) is an author and publisher. He owns Cardoza Publishing, which is partner company to Cardoza Games.
Avery Cardoza was born in Brooklyn, New York. At an early age he had a propensity for mathematics, which he studied at Vassar College. He used his mathematical skills to learn card counting techniques, and wrote his first book "Winning Casino Blackjack for the Non-Counter" at the age of 23. This was after he was banned from many casinos because of his winning techniques. He currently resides in Las Vegas and New York City, and his company maintains worldwide offices in London and Moscow.
Cardoza regularly competes against the best poker players in the world in the high stakes poker tournaments seen on television. His other book publishing company, Open Road Publishing (worldwide travel guides) and imprint Cold Spring Press (fantasy/science fiction), started in 1993 with a partner, has 75 titles on the shelves and an Amazon top-30 seller to its credit.
Cardoza is a five-time Gold and Platinum award-winning designer (48th annual awards, National Paperbox Association) and the author of the 432 page “bible” on publishing, The Complete Guide to Successful Publishing, a book the Publisher’s Marketing Association called “the most comprehensive guide on publishing…maybe ever.” He has designed hundreds of packaging concepts for books, multimedia software, magazines, direct mailers, brochures, with dozens of retail bestsellers to his design credit.
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[edit] Cardoza Publishing
Cardoza Publishing claims to be the largest publisher of gaming, gambling and poker books in the world. It has published more than 200 titles and sold 10 million books since 1981 including bestsellers’ Doyle Brunson’s Super System and Super System 2 (New York Times Extended Bestseller, March 2005, #1 Amazon worldwide), and "Caro's Book of Tells" by Mike Caro. Cardoza’s own how-to works include Winning Casino Blackjack for the Non-Counter, How to Play Winning Poker, Poker Talk, Crash Course in Texas Hold’em Poker and the encyclopedic How to Win at Gambling.
Cardoza Pubishing has been marketed as the brand that player's have turned to for reliable, unbiased and accurate information on gaming and gambling. They have published more than 200 titles and sold over 10 million copies making us the world's largest and foremost publisher of gaming books.
Avery Cardoza’s philosophy is to publish books by the world's top authorities and champions, and to be trusted by players, writers, and professionals - more than any other source for authoritative and easy-to-read information.
In 2003, Cardoza founded Avery Cardoza’s Player, and serves as both the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher. It is a bimonthly national men's lifestyle magazine.
[edit] Books
Poker books published by Cardoza Publishing include:
Super System by Doyle Brunson
Super System 2 by Doyle Brunson
Poker Wisdom of a Champion By Doyle Brunson
Online Poker by Doyle Brunson
Online Holdem by Avery Cardoza
Crash Course in Beating Texas Hold'em by Avery Cardoza
Caro's Guide to Doyle Brunsons Super System by Mike Caro
How to Win the Championship: Hold'em Strateges for the Final Table by T.J. Cloutier
How To Win No-Limit Tournaments by Johnny Chan and Mark Karowe
Championship Hold'em by T.J. Cloutier & Tom McEvoy
The Poker Tournament Formula by Arnold Snyder
Winners Guide to Texas Hold'em Poker by Ken Warren
[edit] Cardoza Games
In the same spirit as the publishing company, focusing on education and development of their players, Cardoza Games is the amalgamation of the brand into a global online poker cardroom provider. Founded in April 2007,www.cardozagames.com, an international online poker playing site based in Alderney was designed partly to let people learn to play poker before delving into online gambling for money. They now have millions of players from around the world. Cardoza Games also offer a free Poker School, this shows you how to gain an advantage over opponents and make money at the game using virtual poker tutor tool.
The Cardoza brand is also known in software, where the Cardoza Entertainment line of CD ROM Windows games sold more than a million units. Avery Cardoza's Casino, released in 1997, was a USA Today best-seller and was acclaimed by many as the best casino simulation ever created. Additional best-sellers include Avery Cardoza's 100 Slots and Avery Cardoza's Beat the Casino.