Playing Dealer Tells By Steve Forte (From Blackjack Forum Volume VI #1, March 1986) © Blackjack Forum 1986 [Last year, Steve forte game me a copy of a 24-page handbook he had authored titled “Advantage Playing: the Ultimate Way to Play Winning Blackjack.” “It’s not something that I’m selling,” he said. “It’s part of a seminar I’ve […]
Casino Survival
What to Do if You are Barred or Backed Off by a Casino By Robert A. Loeb, Attorney at Law (From Blackjack and the Law by I. Nelson Rose and Robert A. Loeb) © Blackjack Forum 1998 Before giving the answers to what a card counter should do if he is barred, some of which are obvious, […]
Blackjack Tournament “Experts”?
Self-Styled Tournament Experts Take a Bath in Reno by Peter A. Griffin (From Blackjack Forum Volume VI #4, December 1986) © Blackjack Forum 1986 “Nice guys finish last!” – Leo Durocher The highlight of the 1986 Festival Reno was a city-wide blackjack tournament pitting 12 different casinos against each other. Each casino fielded a 12 man (correction: […]
Blackjack Team Legal Issues
The Windsor Trial, and a Conversation With Tommy Hyland by Arnold Snyder (From Blackjack Forum Volume XVI #1, Spring 1996) © 1996 Blackjack Forum When we did our last major reader survey in 1994, three areas stood out as topics our readers wanted more information about: comps, shuffle tracking and blackjack team play. We have since provided […]
Blackjack Computers
The Electronic Gambler’s Fuzz-Out Syndrome by Bob Jenkins (From Blackjack Forum Volume V #4, December 1985) © Blackjack Forum 1985 [Note from Arnold Snyder: The following is a chapter from a blackjack book being written by Bob Jenkins. Bob was involved with several blackjack computer teams over a period of three years and is documenting some true […]
Blackjack Around the World
Interview with the Blackjack Traveler by Richard W. Munchkin (From Blackjack Forum Volume XXIII #2, Summer 2003) © Blackjack Forum 2003 [Note from Arnold Snyder: Richard W. Munchkin is a member of the Blackjack Hall of Fame, and author of the book Gambling Wizards: Conversations with the World’s Greatest Gamblers .] [Note from RWM: Who is Blackjack Traveler? When […]
Blackjack Tournament Strategy
By Stanford Wong (From Blackjack Forum Vol. XV #III, September 1995 © 1995 Blackjack Forum Arnold has asked me to write something on casino tournament strategy, so I thought I would share a typical application of my new Tournament Blackjack software. Here is a situation I encountered in a mini blackjack tournament I entered at Isle of Capri in […]
What Would You Do?
Author’s note: Today’s story is a composite between two different incidents that were somewhat similar, but each different from the other. So, the final result is fiction but based on fact. Readers are invited to consider how they would have handled this situation had it happened to them in a game they played. Ignore for […]
An Interview with Julian Braun
by Arnold Snyder (From Blackjack Forum Volume I #2, June 1981)© 1981, 2005 Blackjack Forum Julian Braun, author of How to Play Winning Blackjack (Data House, 1980), IBM computer programmer extraordinaire, and blackjack pioneer whose programs have provided the strategies of numerous card counting systems since the early sixties, made a recent trip to California. I took the opportunity […]
Beyond Wong: Professional Casino Tournament Tip...
by Anthony Curtis(From Blackjack Forum Volume XV #3, September 1995)© 1995 Blackjack Forum One evening in late 1985, my phone rang. It was a call that I look back on as one of the most important of my life. Stanford Wong was on the other end, and as is his custom, he came straight to the point. […]
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