Comic Book Blackjack Systems by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum March 1985)© Arnold Snyder 1985-2006 Just got my latest copy of Gambling Fool magazine. As always, it contains those familiar full-page ads telling me I can haul in mucho bucks anytime I want, that I won’t have to work for a living anymore and, in fact, I can even buy […]
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The Coin Flip Scam That Fooled Uston
Flipped! The Coin Flip Gambling Scam by Dunbar(From Blackjack Forum XX #2, Summer 2000)© 2000 Blackjack Forum “You can flip the coin,” he said. “If I call it right, you give me $100. If I call it wrong, I’ll give you $1,000.” It was the winter of 1979-1980 in Atlantic City, and I had seen the character […]
Snyder Reviews Cellini
THE CARD COUNTER’S GUIDE TO CASINO SURVEILLANCE , BY D.V. CELLINIReview by Arnold Snyder Unless the casino attitude toward card counters goes through some drastic change in the near future, such that counters are viewed by casinos as good customers who should be allowed to win whatever their talents allow, I cannot imagine any card counter […]
Female Poker Pro Tells How to Play Male Opponen...
XX Chromosomes at the Poker Table by Cat Hulbert(From Blackjack Forum XXIV #1, Winter 2004/05)© Blackjack Forum 2005 Playing poker with men is stimulating in a different way than playing only with women. The majority of men perceive woman as a passive creature who is incapable of high limit competition. You will have to become more aggressive […]
Common Casino Jargon
Glossary of Casino Terms By the Vindicator© 2004 Blackjack Forum Online B comp. Free beverage comp Big. A term for $100, as in five “big” = $500 Beans. Slang for cheques Bet spread. The difference between a player’s lowest and highest wagers Bird dog. See “Shill” BFA. Black female adult Black Book. See Excluded List Bleed. The slow draining of the float or […]
Casino Surveillance: Here Comes the High-Tech F...
Safe Jack and BJ Tracker by Arnold Snyder(From Card Player, May 1993© 1993 Arnold Snyder [Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Card Player’s May 21, 1993 issue, some 2½ years prior to the first published announcement of Mikohn Gaming’s “Safe Jack” casino surveillance system for detecting card counters. Did I “invent” Safe Jack? No . . . […]
New Basic Strategy for Counters
Card Counters’ Basic Strategy: Is It For You? by Hal Marcus(From Blackjack Forum Vol. XXIII, #4, Winter 2003/04© 2003 Blackjack Forum [Note from Arnold Snyder: The purpose of this article is to help players who are already counting cards to decide if they should use a fixed, altered version of blackjack basic strategy for their playing decisions, […]
The Cost of Errors
Card Counting Tip of the Day: To Err is Human, and Expensive! by Arnold Snyder(From Card Player, June 1996)© 1996 Arnold Snyder One of the things that separates the successful, world-class blackjack pros from the struggling masses of card counters is mistakes. World class players simply don’t make many. Some card counting errors are very costly, while […]
Blackjack Betting Camouflage
The “Up and Down” Betting System For Card Counting Camouflage by Arnold Snyder© 1995 Arnold Snyder[From Card Player, February 1995] Question from a Reader: What do you think of a betting strategy for card counting where you always come off the top of the shoe with a midsize bet, say $25, then cut back to smaller […]
Card Counters’ Guide to Vegas Accommodati...
The Hotel Rooms of Las Vegas by G.K. Schroeder(From Blackjack Forum Vol. XIV #4, December 1994)© 1994 Blackjack Forum [Note: Being as this article was written almost 30 years ago,a lot of the recommendations will be obsolete. But the author does provide a lot of good information on hos counters should think about their accommodations, plus, it […]
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