There is a lot of debate on the internet on whether or not one should use a player’s card. As my loyal readers know, I usually fall on the side of not using one. But I realized recently that the reason I advocate not using a player’s card is because I assume I am talking […]
Posts in category Advantage Play
Advice to new card counters
It seems there are a lot of new card counters on the blackjack boards recently. I don’t know if they received blackjack books as early Christmas presents, or maybe the movie 21 has been playing on cable, but for whatever reasons the new posts are proliferating, often with the same questions, and often making the […]
Las Vegas Backgammon early 1980s
This article was written by Jake Jacobs in 2006. It is about the Vegas backgammon scene in the early 80s. I wanted to post it here as a prelude to my review of Ace – Deuce: The Life and Times of a Gambling Man. The book was written by J. E. Anderson who was a […]
Darryl Purpose – Next Time Around
For those of you not familiar, Darryl Purpose is a member of the Blackjack Hall of Fame. I did an extensive interview with him, which you can read here – interview. In the interview he said that when he was 16 his mother gave him a copy of Beat the Dealer, but he forgave her because […]
1536 Free Waters – book review
The full title of this book is actually, 1536 Free Waters and Other Blackjack Endeavors: Finding Profit and Humor in Card-Counting. The author is Glen Wiggy, an amateur card counter, and a mathematician. The book is part “how to”, part memoir, and part miscellaneous stories that started out as blog posts at blackjackstories.com. This is NOT a book for […]
What makes a great AP?
I read a recent post asking what makes a really good advantage player (AP)? If you ask professional APs who the best players in the world are, there are a handful of names that pop up. I’ve often said that the secret to my success was that I met the best players in the world, and […]
Do casinos cheat?
Like the change of seasons, every 3 months or so a post pops up on the blackjack boards; I think the casino is cheating. This dealer was dealing seconds. This latest one really caught my attention:
Interview with T Dane author of Behind The Blac...
T Dane is the author of Behind The Black Dome: An Advantage Player’s Guide to Casino Surveillance. The book is new, and can be purchased at www.behindtheblackdome.com. T Dane has been working in the casino industry for a dozen years. For ten of those years he has been in casino surveillance. He has worked as […]
The Blackjack Life book review
I am always eager to read new gambling books, especially books about blackjack, so I was happy to see the new release The Blackjack Life by Nathaniel Tilton. The book chronicles the blackjack life of Nathaniel who is the epitome of the modern card counter.
When to quit
My local paper has a poker column on Sundays, and today’s column was about when a poker player should quit playing. This is a question I see discussed a lot on blackjack forums, and is something I am often asked about by civilians. The correct answer is going to depend on several factors, but first a couple […]
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