Video Blackjack in South Carolina: Too Good to be True by Outgoer and the Eradigator(From Blackjack Forum Vol. XVIII #3, Fall 1998)© 1998 Blackjack Forum To scout or not to scout? Our friend “Springbok” asked us to scout a game for him in South Carolina after “Carolina Maddog” made a post on Arnold Snyder’s private message board […]
Rip-Off Robo-Dealers:
Non-Random Video Blackjack by Allan Pell(From Blackjack Forum Vol. XII #4, December 1992)© 1992 Blackjack Forum I feel cheated. I had planned on following up on “Invasion of the Robo-Dealers” with another article, but the Oakland fire got in the way, and all my research went up in smoke. Material or not, Arnold called me with a […]
Marked Cards Primer 101
The Gambler’s Crimp, Shading Decks, and Other Methods for Marking Cards by Howard Collier, with photos by Christi Collier(From Blackjack Forum Vol. XIII #4, December 1993)© 1993 Blackjack Forum In 1902, S. W. Erdnase wrote, “A perfect understanding of the risks that are taken may aid greatly in lessening the casualties.” This is extremely profound. Blackjack table […]
Card Counting: The Gateway to Professional Gamb...
How Card Counting Works by Arnold Snyder© Blackjack Forum Online 2005 Card counting works, and players who use correct blackjack strategy with a card counting system can beat the casinos, because low cards favor the dealer in blackjack and high cards favor the player. Essentially, card counting is a method for tracking the probability of the […]
Counter-Espionage:
Casino Surveillance Turns the Tables on Card Counters by Arnold Snyder (From Blackjack Forum Vol. XVIII #1, Spring 1998) © 1998 Blackjack Forum Online This article was initially titled: “The Two Faces of Camouflage.” My original outline had Part I dealing with the camouflage techniques card counters and other advantage players can use to disguise their skills […]
A Player’s Road to Winning
A Card Counter’s Story By One More Shoe(From Blackjack Forum XXI #2, Summer 2001)© Blackjack Forum 2001 Other than a very brief introduction to casino gambling during a Caribbean vacation over twenty years ago, I caught the blackjack bug during the summer of 1993, more than a year after the area’s first Indian casino opened its doors. […]
False Key Errors in McDowell’s Blackjack ...
Effects of Shuffle Tracking Errors on False Key Rates by Radar O’Reilly(From Blackjack Forum XXIV #2, Spring 2005)© 2005 Blackjack Forum In his book Blackjack Ace Prediction, David McDowell has made a serious error in his ace prediction hit rate calculation that has not yet been addressed. I am addressing it because I expect it to jump out at […]
Poker Tournament Rebuy Advice
Response to Mason Malmuth on the Rebuy Advice in The Poker Tournament Formula by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum , Summer 2006)© Blackjack Forum 2006 [Editor’s note: This article is a response to a post by Mason Malmuth at his twoplustwo.com Web site in which he purports to refute the argument behind my rebuy advice in The Poker Tournament Formula. […]
The Implied Discount and Tournament Chip Value
The Implied Discount: New Insights Into Optimal Poker Tournament Strategy By Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum , Fall 2006)© Arnold Snyder 2006 This article will dispel a number of unsound theories about poker tournaments that have been around for decades. These theories have led tournament authors to promote weak and even losing strategies that are the reason why […]
Chip Value in Poker Tournaments
Correct Chip Value Theory and Implications for Winning (and Losing) Poker Tournament Strategy by Arnold Snyder (From Blackjack Forum, Fall 2006) © Arnold Snyder 2006In my recent article “The Implied Discount”, I addressed a theory (first proposed by Mason Malmuth in his 1987 Gambling Theory and Other Topics) that linked the dollar value of chips in a tournament […]
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