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 […]
Podcast – Jim & Dan Pasko
Our guests this week are Jim Pasko, and his son Dan. Jim has been one of the best backgammon players in the world for 40 years, and together with his son Dan they have been very successful as sports bettors, primarily focused on prop bets. We welcome your questions – send them to us at […]
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 […]
Blackjack Surrender
When It Pays to Say “Uncle!” by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum Volume X #2, June 1990)© Blackjack Forum 1990 You’ve got a double-digit true count, a huge expectation, and a bet to match. While you’re hoping the pit boss doesn’t notice the size of your bet, the dealer deals you another lousy sixteen — a ten and […]
Death of the “Free Ride” Rule
Surprise Party at the Klondike Hotel by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum XX #2, Fall 1996)© Blackjack Forum 1996 On Sunday, June 23, 1996, speaking before a small crowd of card counters and other gambling enthusiasts who were attending his blackjack seminar at Casino Players’ Las Vegas Gaming Festival ‘96 at the Tropicana Hotel, Stanford Wong predicted that, due to […]
Extreme Casino Countermeasures
Spare the Rod, Spoil the Card Counter by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum Volume XXIII #2, Summer 2003)© 2003 Blackjack Forum In the two-plus decades that we’ve been publishing this mag, we’ve covered many stories about professional players suffering physical abuse at the hands of casino personnel. Back in June of 1986 (“Why I’m Suing in Nevada”), Ken […]
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