For gambling sleights, Bees are the way to go. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of the Expert at the Card Table-Erdnase. It's a book, but will give you a practical treatise on the sleights employed by card cheats. As far as cheap DVDs go, I recommend Jason England's Foundations DVDs. They're $50/dvd, but the downloads can be purchased for $10/move and are of great quality. For more practical routines, check out Darwin Ortiz, Simon Lovell, and Paul Wilson. The Unreal Work 2 is also a good resource (Dan and Dave); however, the material on the DVD will be difficult for a beginner.
Just a general piece of advice: Don't learn tricks to make the sleights happen. Typically, the simpler the technicality of a trick, the more time and care go into the plot/presentation of the effect. Learn the sleights to make certain effects happen. For example, if I decided to learn Triumph (my favorite card routine), I may decide to learn a Zarrow shuffle to improve the impossibility of the effect.
Happy practicing!
-Mahu