Do Casinos Have the Right to “Back Room” You? by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum VI #3, September 1986)© Blackjack Forum 1986 [Andrew Blumen is a Las Vegas attorney who specializes in representing professional gamblers vs. casinos. With so many reports in the past few years in these pages of honest blackjack players being backroomed, harassed, arrested and […]
The Blind Man versus the Eye
Stories from Casino Surveillance By D.V. Cellini(First published in Casino Player, March 2004)© 2005 Blackjack Forum Online It was a beautiful spring afternoon, a perfect day for heading out of Reno to the nearby Sierras, maybe even a drive to Lake Tahoe. But there I was, sitting in the dark, the only light provided by a […]
Blackjack Switch
Basic Strategy for Blackjack Switch, With Easy Switching Rules By Arnold Snyder(From How to Beat Internet Casinos and Poker Rooms, by Arnold Snyder)© 2005 Arnold Snyder Introduction to Blackjack Switch Many online casinos, particularly those that use Playtech software, offer a unique game called Blackjack Switch. It is similar to regular casino blackjack in many ways, […]
A Card Counters’ Guide to Getting Around ...
The Blackjack Routes of Las Vegas By G.K. Schroeder(From Blackjack Forum Vol. XIV #3, September 1994; updated 2012)© 2012 Blackjack Forum Some years ago I made the mistake of taking a three-day trip to Las Vegas during the National Finals Rodeo. The main casinos on my play list at the time were Circus Circus, the Sands and […]
Blackjack in Moldavia
Heaven in Hell: Blackjack in Moldavia by Garry Baldy(From Blackjack Forum Volume XXIV #2, Spring 2005)© Blackjack Forum 2005 Day minus one. Introduction to Moldavia. One well-known professional gambler asked me if I wanted information about a blackjack game with extremely good rules. Sure, answered I. (What professional gambler wouldn’t?) He proposed to give me information on […]
Blackjack Luck
It’s the Big Winner’s Secret Ingredient by Howard Grossman (From Blackjack Forum Vol. II, #1, March 1982)© Blackjack Forum 1982, 2013 [Note from Arnold Snyder: Howard Grossman, founder of the Las Vegas Blackjack Academy, a school for card counters, played high stakes blackjack professionally for many years. An original teammate of Ken Uston’s, he jumped the […]
Casinos in South America
Casinos and Blackjack in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Paraguay By RK(From Blackjack Forum XXIV #3, Summer 2005)© Blackjack Forum 2005 [Note from Arnold Snyder: I want to thank RK, a long-time Blackjack Forum subscriber and trustworthy reporter, for this report.] [Note from R.K.: For me it is really a pleasure to share this information with you. The information on […]
Think You’re an Expert?
A Puzzle for Blackjack Players by Arnold Snyder (Blackjack Forum Vol. III #1, March 1983)© Blackjack Forum 1983 I’ve got some puzzles here for true blackjack fanatics. If you like working on puzzles, give them a try before looking at the answers. Some of these may take a while to work out, but all of them […]
The Blackjack Dealer Was Flashing
Hole Card Tips for Beginners By Arnold Snyder(From Card Player, July 28, 1995)© 1995 Arnold Snyder Question from a Reader: Last week, the blackjack dealer against whom I was playing kept flashing her hole card in my direction. She wasn’t doing it on purpose; it was just the way she angled the hole card up as she slid […]
Hole Card Techniques and the Law
Is Spooking Legal? By Arnold Snyder (With comments by Stephen R. Minagil, Attorney at Law)(From Blackjack Forum VII #2, June 1987)© Blackjack Forum 1987 As reported previously in Blackjack Forum (Vol. V #3), on December 18, 1984, the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada ruled conclusively that certain types of hole-card play are legal at Nevada’s casino blackjack […]
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