By Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum XV #4, December 1995)© Blackjack Forum 1995 The initial news reports on the arrests of Tommy Hyland blackjack team members Christopher Z., Barbara D., and Karen C. came to the Blackjack Forum offices from newspapers all over the U.S. and Canada. On May 28, 1994, the three were arrested at the brand new Casino Windsor and charged with cheating at […]
Casino Tournament Strategy: Stanford Wong Spill...
by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum Vol. VII #1, March 1987© 1987 & 2012 Blackjack Forum Serious blackjack players are about to enter a new era of play. The Age of the Professional Tournament Player has been ushered in with the publication of a new book by Stanford Wong—Tournament Blackjack. [Editor’s note: Wong’s book has since been revised and […]
The Cat and Mouse Game, Part II: Is the Game Ov...
By Bill Zender (From Blackjack Forum Volume XXIV #4, Fall 2005)© 2005 Blackjack Forum [Editor’s Note: In this article, Bill Zender, a former Gaming Control agent and successful co-owner/casino manager of the Aladdin Hotel and Casino, discusses the resistance of casino managers to objective lessons in casino math he provided at a recent seminar at the University […]
The Case of the Missing $7K
From the Journals of Nick Alexander(From Blackjack Forum Volume XVII #2, Summer 1997)© Blackjack Forum 1997 Now as you may know… or maybe you don’t, professional gamblers travel around and often need large amounts of cash. Because we’re a closely knit fraternity professional gamblers loan each other this cash without a second thought. A quick aside. I […]
Your Options When You Are Cheated in a Casino
by Sam Case(From Blackjack Forum Vol. III #2, June 1983)© 1983 Blackjack Forum It’s time for more comments about dealer cheating in general. I’ve said before that I rarely suspect dealers of cheating. I used to play only low-stakes. Since that time, I’ve logged in quite a few hours with Crazy Bob’s team, at high stakes. I […]
Blackjack Cruise, Auto-Shoes, Lotta Blues…...
From the Journals of Nick Alexander(From Blackjack Forum Volume XIX #1, Spring 1999)© Blackjack Forum 1999 I’m reading the paper in Hong Kong and see that there have been three more shootings as part of the gang war going on in Macau. Last week there were two people actually shot inside the casino, and bombs are going […]
Counting Cards in Comp City
By Max Rubin (From Blackjack Forum Vol. XIV #2, June 1994)© Blackjack Forum 1994 [The first part of this article on Las Vegas casino comps is excerpted directly from the first edition of Max Rubin’s Comp City: A Guide to Free Casino Vacations, Second Edition. The second part of this article, subtitled Comp City Outtakes, is a Blackjack Forum exclusive.] Comp Counters […]
The Second Deal, Part I – The Strike Seco...
by Sam Case(From Blackjack Forum Vol. I #3, December 1981)© 1981 Blackjack Forum The most devastating, and unfortunately, the most common, cheating technique in the single-deck game is the second deal. In essence, the dealer appears to deal the top card, when actually the second card from the top is dealt. The second deal most often is used when […]
Part 2: The Push-Off Second Deal
by Sam Case(From Blackjack Forum Vol. II #1, March 1982)© 1982 Blackjack Forum [Ed. Note: In “The Second Deal, Part I” Sam Case described what a second deal was, explaining the difference between the two types of second deals, the strike second deal, and the push-off second deal. The strike second deal was described in detail so that a player could […]
Interview with Darryl Purpose
Interview with Darryl Purpose – Grizzled Veteran of the Blackjack Wars by Richard W. Munchkin (From Blackjack Forum Vol. XXIV #1, Winter 2005) © 2005 Blackjack Forum [Richard W. Munchkin is an inductee into the Blackjack Hall of Fame and the author of Gambling Wizards: Conversations with the World’s Greatest Gamblers.] [Comments from RWM: Though Darryl Purpose is […]
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