1536 Free Waters – book review
The full title of this book is actually, 1536 Free Waters and Other Blackjack Endeavors: Finding Profit and Humor in Card-Counting. The author is Glen Wiggy, an amateur card counter, and a mathematician. The book is part “how to”, part memoir, and part miscellaneous stories that started out as blog posts at blackjackstories.com. This is NOT a book for [...]
Podcast – Holy Rollers Blackjack players
This week’s guests are Ben and Colin, two men who ran The Church Team, a team of card counters featured in the movie, The Holy Rollers. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to [...]
A Look at Holy Rollers Documentary DVD
This Thursday evening, our guest on Gambling with an Edge radio show will be Colin Jones from the Holy Rollers blackjack team. In preparation for the interview, I watched the DVD Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card-Counting [...]
What makes a great AP?
I read a recent post asking what makes a really good advantage player (AP)? If you ask professional APs who the best players in the world are, there are a handful of names that pop up. I’ve often said that the secret to my success was that I met the best players in the world, and [...]
Podcast – guest Brian McAllister
This week’s guest is Brian McAllister, a long-time video poker player. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to [...]
Power of the Pack
Let’s say you’re playing a variation of Deuces Wild. Assume you are asked to look at the following two hands: Q♠ J♠ K♦ T♦ 4♠ and Q♠ J♠ K♦ T♦ 3♠. Assume further that you are told that in one of the hands you hold Q♠ J♠ and the other one you throw all five [...]
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