Blackjack Insurance on Good Hands May Be A Good Idea After All By Peter A. Griffin (From Blackjack Forum Volume VIII #2, December 1988) © Blackjack Forum 1988 [Note from Arnold Snyder: In the December issue of Blackjack Forum (Vol. VII #4), Marvin L. Master conjectured that if your card counting system indicated that the insurance bet was […]
Interview with Johnny C
Interview with Johnny C, Manager of the MIT Blackjack Team by Richard W. Munchkin (From Blackjack Forum Vol. XXII #3, Fall 2002)© 2002 Blackjack Forum [Note from A.S.: Richard W. Munchkin is the author of Gambling Wizards: Conversations with the World’s Greatest Gamblers, and, like Johnny C., is a member of the Blackjack Hall of Fame.] The history […]
Interview with RC
Interview with A Vegas Hole Card Player by Richard W. Munchkin (From Blackjack Forum Vol. XXIII #1, Spring 2003) © 2003 Blackjack Forum What is a Blackjack Hole-Card Player? Not all professional blackjack players count cards. There is a very small group of professional gamblers using a technique with a much higher advantage. These players are known […]
SMART ONLINE CASINO GAMBLING
INTRO TO SMART ONLINE CASINO GAMBLING by Deep 21 and Nothing But Net © Blackjack Forum Online 2004 Playing in online casinos can be fun and can even provide an edge for knowledgeable players. You can play the same games you play in Vegas (and more) with the same odds (or better), for high stakes […]
Not Paranoia?
It’s Not Paranoia If… by James Grosjean (From Blackjack Forum XXIV #1, Winter 2004/05)© Blackjack Forum 2004 [Author’s Note: In my description of the trial against the Imperial Palace (IP), quoted matter comes from direct trial testimony given under oath, available in the official court transcript, which we expect to make available online in the future (or […]
The Laughlin Lay-a-way
Dealer Cheating at Blackjack by Sam Case (From Blackjack Forum Vol. II #3, September 1982) © 1982 Blackjack Forum I met Crazy Bob in a bar in Calgary (Alberta, Canada). I knew it was him by his “Crazy Bob — No Autographs, Please!” t-shirt. We had more than a few Molsons, and he turned me on to […]
The First Counters
Edward O. Thorp in Las Vegas, 1962 By Russell T. Barnhart (From Blackjack Forum Volume XX #1, Spring 2000) © 2000 Blackjack Forum In the early 1960s much publicity occurred concerning a 28-year-old professor of mathematics, Edward O. Thorp, first of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Cambridge, then of New Mexico State University at Las […]
System Smitty
System Smitty and the Blindfolded Monkeys By Arnold Snyder (From Blackjack Forum, March 1987) © 1987 Blackjack Forum Take the case of Benjamin F. “System Smitty” Smith. You may recall System Smitty’s name from Ed Thorp’s 1962 classic, Beat the Dealer. According to Thorp, Smitty was a Las Vegas character he heard about in the late 1950’s, […]
Stock Control Shuffles
How to Stack the Deck with Stock Control Shuffles by Sam Case (with photo by Ron Hunter) (From Blackjack Forum Vol. II #4, December 1982) © 1982 Blackjack Forum I must be the world’s pickiest card player. I always study a dealer before sitting down. Although there are more ways to cheat while shuffling than there are […]
Stickin’ It to the Safari Club
by Nick Alexander (From Blackjack Forum Volume XVII #1, Spring 1997) © Blackjack Forum 1997 August 2, 1988, Tuesday. Read an article in the Sunday Times entitled, “SAFARI CLUB’S MYSTERIES MAY BE UNSOLVABLE.” The article details an account of Park Chong Kyu’s dealings with Northrop Corp. You may remember that Northrop paid him $6,250,000 to build a hotel in […]
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