Death of the “Free Ride” Rule
Surprise Party at the Klondike Hotel by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum XX #2, Fall 1996)© Blackjack Forum 1996 On Sunday, June 23, 1996, speaking before a small crowd of card counters and other gambling enthusiasts who were attending his blackjack seminar at Casino Players’ Las Vegas Gaming Festival ‘96 at the Tropicana Hotel, Stanford Wong predicted that, due to [...]
Extreme Casino Countermeasures
Spare the Rod, Spoil the Card Counter by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum Volume XXIII #2, Summer 2003)© 2003 Blackjack Forum In the two-plus decades that we’ve been publishing this mag, we’ve covered many stories about professional players suffering physical abuse at the hands of casino personnel. Back in June of 1986 (“Why I’m Suing in Nevada”), Ken [...]
Snyder Responds to Patterson’s Response
Jerry Patterson’s Break the Dealer: Bad Information on Shuffles by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum VII #1, March 1987)© 1987 Blackjack Forum All of the “non-random” shuffle exploitation gurus including Jerry Patterson, Eddie Olsen and Doug Grant claim that Patterson’s systems won’t work vs. computer-random shuffles. Yet, none of you have ever published any computer simulation data on your systems [...]
Blackjack Strategy Puzzle
Shouldn’t You Hit? by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum Volume XXI #2, Summer 2001)© Blackjack Forum 2001 Four blackjack players, all of them professional gamblers, were sitting at a quarter table in a Vegas Strip casino. I stopped to watch the game because the bets on the table were unusual. Two players had bet the table minimum — [...]
Non-Random Shuffle Discoveries
Shoehenge: Probing the Mysteries of the Non-Random Shuffle by Arnold Snyder(Blackjack Forum Vol. X #4, December 1990)© Blackjack Forum 1990 [Arnold Snyder is the author of The Blackjack Shuffle Tracker’s Cookbook: How Players Win (and Why They Lose) With Shuffle-Tracking.] Many times over the years I have had to eat my own words. So many times, in [...]
How Would You Play This One?
I received an email from a player, “Sam,” discussing a promotion that has come and gone, in an unnamed casino in an unnamed state. He wanted to know how I would have analyzed whether or not to play it. The gist of the promotion was that for two consecutive days, four hours per day, each [...]
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