Jerry Patterson’s Break the Dealer: Bad Information on Shuffles by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum VII #1, March 1987)© 1987 Blackjack Forum All of the “non-random” shuffle exploitation gurus including Jerry Patterson, Eddie Olsen and Doug Grant claim that Patterson’s systems won’t work vs. computer-random shuffles. Yet, none of you have ever published any computer simulation data on your systems […]
Blackjack Strategy Puzzle
Shouldn’t You Hit? by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum Volume XXI #2, Summer 2001)© Blackjack Forum 2001 Four blackjack players, all of them professional gamblers, were sitting at a quarter table in a Vegas Strip casino. I stopped to watch the game because the bets on the table were unusual. Two players had bet the table minimum — […]
Non-Random Shuffle Discoveries
Shoehenge: Probing the Mysteries of the Non-Random Shuffle by Arnold Snyder(Blackjack Forum Vol. X #4, December 1990)© Blackjack Forum 1990 [Arnold Snyder is the author of The Blackjack Shuffle Tracker’s Cookbook: How Players Win (and Why They Lose) With Shuffle-Tracking.] Many times over the years I have had to eat my own words. So many times, in […]
How Would You Play This One?
I received an email from a player, “Sam,” discussing a promotion that has come and gone, in an unnamed casino in an unnamed state. He wanted to know how I would have analyzed whether or not to play it. The gist of the promotion was that for two consecutive days, four hours per day, each […]
Super Sevens
Super Sevens Snafu by Arnold Snyder(Blackjack Forum Vol. XII #2, June 1992)© Blackjack Forum 1992 There’s a new side-bet popping up at blackjack tables called Super Sevens. You’ll find it at the new Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut, and on various cruise ships. You’ll also find it at Caesars, in both Las Vegas and Stateline. The option was invented […]
The “Senior’s System”
Card Counting for Players with Weak Vision by Arnold Snyder[From Card Player, September 1994]© 1994 Arnold Snyder Question from a Reader: I do not have very good eyesight. I love playing blackjack, but as you might imagine, card counting is not easy for me. I have no trouble distinguishing aces, kings, queens, jacks, or 2s, 3s, […]
Are Side Counts Worth the Trouble?
Can Side Counting Make You a Super Card Counter? by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum Volume IV #3, September 1984)© Blackjack Forum 1984 I’ve spent the past four years advising blackjack players to streamline their card counting strategies. In 1980, in The Blackjack Formula, I showed that the most important factor in a card counter’s win rate is penetration. […]
Costa Rican Rummy
Can You Beat Costa Rican Rummy with Card Counting? by Arnold Snyder(First published in Card Player, December 1993)© 1993 Arnold Snyder Question from a Player: I will be vacationing in Costa Rica again this year. They have casinos there, but blackjack is illegal. Instead, they have their own variation of blackjack, which they call “rummy” — not in […]
Review of Repeat Until Rich
Repeat Until Rich by Josh Axelrad (reviewed) by Arnold Snyder Josh Axelrad’s Repeat Until Rich: A Professional Card Counter’s Chronicle of the Blackjack War is an engrossing read by a former player on a notorious high-stakes team whose five-year blackjack career ended more or less when he found himself barred from just about every casino in the country. […]
Blackjack in Deadwood, South Dakota
Report on Deadwood Casinos and Blackjack Opportunities by the Bison(From Blackjack Forum XXIV #2, Spring 2005)© Blackjack Forum 2005 Ah, yes, winter in the Black Hills, 10 below one day, 65 above the next. With summer being the main tourist season, winter weekdays are usually quiet in all casinos, with many not opening their blackjack tables until […]
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