Mason Malmuth

Mason Malmuth Bio and Books

Author Biography - Mason Malmuth

Mason Malmuth was born and raised in Coral Gables, Florida. In 1973 he received his BS in Mathematics from Virginia Tech, and completed their Masters program in 1975. While working for the United States Census Bureau in 1979, Mason stopped overnight in Las Vegas while driving to his new assignment in California. He was immediately fascinated by the games, and gambling became his major interest.

After arriving in California he discovered that poker was legal and began playing in some of the public cardrooms as well as taking periodic trips to Las Vegas where he would play both poker and blackjack. In 1982 he went to work for the Northrop Corporation as a mathematician and moved to Los Angeles where he could conveniently pursue his interest in poker in the large public cardrooms in Gardena, Bell Gardens, and Commerce.

In 1983 his first article "Card Domination - The Ultimate Blackjack Weapon" was published in Gambling Times magazine. In 1987 he left his job with the Northrop Corporation to begin a career as both a full-time gambler and a gambling writer. He has had over 600 articles published in various magazines and is the author or co-author of 15 books. These include Gambling Theory and Other Topics, where he tries to demonstrate why only a small number of people are highly successful at gambling. In this book he introduces the reader to the concept of non-self weighting strategies and explains why successful gambling is actually a balance of luck and skill. Other books he has co-authored include Hold'em Poker For Advanced Players, with David Sklansky, Seven-Card Stud For Advanced Players, with David Sklansky and Ray Zee, and Small Stakes Hold'em: Winning Big with Expert Play, with Ed Miller and David Sklansky. All of them are considered the definitive works on these games.

His company Two Plus Two Publishing LLC has sold over two million books and currently has 40 titles to its credit. These books are recognized as the best in their field and are thoroughly studied by those individuals who take gambling seriously.

In addition, Mason also heads up Two Plus Two Interactive LLC which produces www.twoplustwo.com where the largest poker community on the Internet is located. At the time of this writing, it contains approximately 100 forums (including several foreign languages as well as English) where as many as 25,000 posts per day appear. The web site gets up to 60,000 unique visitors a day (and sometimes even more), 130,000 visits a day, 1.5 million page views a day, and just under 1 million unique visitors a month. In addition, there is an Internet radio show known as the "Two Plus Two Pokercast" and the "Two Plus Two Online Poker Strategy Magazine."

Books Written by Mason Malmuth

• Blackjack Essays
• Gambling Theory and Other Topics
• Poker Essays
• Poker Essays, Volume II
• Poker Essays, Volume III
• Winning Concepts in Draw and Lowball
• Gambling for a Living
  by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth
• Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players
  by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth
• Seven-Card Stud for Advanced Players
  by David Sklansky, Mason Malmuth, and Ray Zee
• Small Stakes Hold'em: Winning Big with Expert Play
  by Ed Miller, David Sklansky, and Mason Malmuth
• The Professional Poker Dealer's Handbook
  by Dan Paymar, Donna Harris, and Mason Malmuth

Booklets by Mason Malmuth

• Fundamentals of "21"
  by Mason Malmuth and Lynne Loomis
• Fundamentals of Craps
  by Mason Malmuth and Lynne Loomis
• Fundamentals of Poker
  by Mason Malmuth and Lynne Loomis
• Fundamentals of Video Poker
  by Mason Malmuth and Lynne Loomis