Statistical Testing and Horse Race Betting by Joel H. Friedman[From Blackjack Forum Vol. XII #1, March 1992]© 1992 Blackjack Forum [Note from Arnold Snyder: Joel Friedman’s published writings on gambling have all been technical papers, all of which have been favorably reviewed in these pages over the years. Like Peter Griffin, he’s one of those writers who […]
The True History of Casino Blackjack
The Most Popular Casino Card Game in the World by Arnold Snyder(From The Big Book of Blackjack , Cardoza Publishing, 2006)© 2006 Arnold Snyder John Scarne, gambling’s most prolific author, had little to say about the origins of blackjack. In several of his books, he mentioned a number of the older European games that had similar structures, […]
Podcast – Anthony Curtis 9/22/2022
Our guest this week is Anthony Curtis. We talk about what’s new in Las Vegas, and upcoming books from Huntington Press. We welcome your questions – send them to us at [email protected], or you can find me at @RWM21 on Twitter or https://www.facebook.com/GamblingWithAnEdge. podcast – https://www.spreaker.com/user/7418966/ac09202022 Show Notes [00:00] Introduction of Anthony Curtis, publisher of The […]
The Hi-Lo Lite
All Those Index Numbers Never Mattered by Arnold Snyder (From Blackjack Forum Vol. XI #3, September 1991)© 1991, 2005 Arnold Snyder Last June, I started writing a monthly blackjack card counting column for Casino Player magazine, which comes out of Atlantic City. It’s a Q/A column. One of the recent questions that Casino Player’s editors forwarded to me, which took me […]
Watch Out for Rolex Hookers
A High Roller Gets Rolled by Raymond X.(From Blackjack Forum Volume VII #3, September 1987)© Blackjack Forum 1987 [Editor’s note: On July 18, 1987, the San Francisco Chronicle carried a short item about “Rolex Hookers”—women who pose as prostitutes, then rob their “customers” after drugging them. They frequently seek out men wearing Rolex watches because the watches are usually […]
Las Vegas — Carnival of Carnivals!
Hey Rube! Las Vegas Welcomes You! by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum XXII #3, Fall 2002)© Blackjack Forum 2002 Before the age of TV, multiplex theaters, and Game Boys, there were traveling carnivals. The carnies would rent a lot on the outskirts of town, set up their tents and portable stages, poster the lamp posts and […]
Lady Luck: Ain’t She a Bitch!
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Those Losing Streaks That Never End by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum , Vol. XXII #1, Spring 2002)© Blackjack Forum 2002 In the decades I have been writing about blackjack, I have heard many players’ horror stories of bad fluctuations — losing streaks that seemed as if they would never end. There have […]
Review of Richard W. Munchkin’s Gambling ...
Conversations with the World’s Greatest Gamblers by Arnold Snyder I will state without any reservations that Gambling Wizards: Conversations with the World’s Greatest Gamblers is one of the best books on professional gambling I have ever read. Rather than seek out the “big names” in gambling—the most well-known authors—Munchkin chose his interviewees purely on the basis of […]
Four Simultaneous Blackjacks
What Are the Odds? by Arnold Snyder(From Casino Player, July 1995)© Arnold Snyder 1995 Question from a Blackjack Player: What are the odds against three players and the dealer all getting a blackjack on the same round? This actually happened to me on my last trip to Las Vegas. The dealer was so amazed, she called the […]
Endorsement Retracted
Letter from Steve Forte Re: Blackjack Ace Prediction by Steve Forte(From Blackjack Forum XXIV #2, Spring 2005)© 2005 Blackjack Forum Some months back I was asked to endorse a new book on Ace Prediction by David McDowell. Not being an active player, I first declined and suggested that the book was better reviewed by professional players. I was […]
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