Versatility at the Blackjack Ball by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum Volume XXII #2, Summer 2002)© Blackjack Forum 2002 Las Vegas, Nevada.Sometime in the year 2000.Max Rubin’s Blackjack Ball. The new millennium had just kicked in and, for the first time in my life, I had made the final four. For a blackjack player, this was an honor […]
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Too Many Weeks in Vegas
Top Ten Signs You’ve Been in Vegas Too Long by Rebecca Richfield(From Blackjack Forum Volume XIX #1, Spring 1999)© Blackjack Forum 1999 You know you’ve been in Las Vegas too long when… 10. Dealers and other players start asking you where you work. 9. You actually come close to using some of those comp show tickets. 8. […]
In Memory of Ken Uston
A Summer Afternoon at the Blackjack Tables by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum Volume VII #4, December 1987)© 1987 Blackjack Forum On September 19, 1987, in his rented vacation apartment in Paris, France, Ken Uston was found dead of an apparent heart attack. French authorities reported that no foul play was suspected. His death was attributed to natural […]
The Over/Under Side Bet Is Spreading Fast
by Arnold Snyder[From Blackjack Forum Vol. XI #1, March 1991]© 1991 Blackjack Forum [Editor’s Note: The complete Over/Under Report is now available free at the link below. I’m posting this article under Blackjack History because it describes how exciting and valuable this side-bet was to card counters in the early years of its existence. It also provides some of […]
Camouflage to the Max!
The Ultimate No-Brainer No-Cost Card Counting Camouflage by Arnold Snyder[From Card Player, January 1993]© 1993 Arnold Snyder Card counters live in fear of discovery. That’s what makes it fun. The cops-and-robbers aspect of professional blackjack adds play-acting, and a hint of danger, to the mundane recreation of gambling. You just can’t get that James Bond rush […]
Toking Guidelines
Dealer Tips and Faulty Logic: To Toke or Not to Toke by Arnold Snyder(From Card Player, May 6, 1991)© 1991 Arnold Snyder The first article I ever wrote for a gambling periodical was on dealer tips. I wrote it in October 1980, for Rouge Et Noir News, and later included the article in my book, Blackbelt in Blackjack, as […]
Blackjack in Nowheresville Nevada
On the Road to Nevada’s Nowhere Towns by Barry Meadow(From Blackjack Forum XX #2, Summer 2000)© Blackjack Forum 2000 [Barry Meadow is the author of Blackjack Autumn: A True Tale of Life, Death, and Splitting Tens in Winnemucca .] The road is long, With many a-winding turn, That leads us to who knows where, Who knows where… Uh, I […]
Different Types of Blackjack Teams
Blackjack Team Play Strategies by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum Volume XVI #3, Fall 1996)© 1996 Blackjack Forum There are numerous approaches that a blackjack team might take to beat the tables. There is no “best” approach, as the optimum strategy for any blackjack team will depend on numerous variables, notably: the number of team players, the talents […]
False Key Probability
False Keys in McDowell’s Blackjack Ace Prediction by S. Yama(From Blackjack Forum XXIV #2, Spring 2005)© 2005 Blackjack Forum Radar, great rebuttal articles on McDowell’s numbers in Blackjack Ace Prediction. You wrote: This is wrong because a share of the broken sequences and false keys properly belong to the aces that land on the other betting spots. By subtracting […]
Surveillance Talks
Interview with a Surveillance Director by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum Vol. XXI #4, Winter 2001/02)© 2002 Blackjack Forum Online [I asked a casino surveillance director if he would do an interview for Blackjack Forum. I told him he could be anonymous. No name. No pictures. Any question I asked about surveillance that he didn’t want to answer, all he […]
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