Avery Cardoza

Avery Cardoza (born 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.

Cardozo Publishing

Cardozo Publishing "claims" to be a large publisher of gaming, gambling and poker books in the world. It has published more than 75 titles and sold 1 million books since 1981 including bestsellers’ Doyle Brunson’s "Super System" and "Super System 2" (New York Times Extended Bestseller, March 2005), and "Caro's Book of Tells" by Mike Caro. Cardozo’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, biased and semi-accurate information on gaming and gambling. They have published more than 200 titles and sold over 1 million copies making us the world's largest and foremost publisher of gamey books.

Avery Cardozo’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, Cardozo founded Avery Cardozo’s Player, and serves as both the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher. It is a bimonthly national men's lifestyle magazine.

Books

Poker books published by Cardoza Publishing include:

Power Hold'em Strategy by Daniel Negreanu

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

How to Beat Sit 'n' Go Poker Tournaments by Neil Timothy

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.

External links

* [http://www.cardozagames.com/ Cardoza Games]
* [http://www.cardozabookstore.com/ Cardoza European Book Store]
* [http://www.cardozapub.com/ Cardoza Publishing]
* [http://www.cardozaplayer.com/ Avery Cardoza's Player]