Super Sevens
Super Sevens Snafu by Arnold Snyder(Blackjack Forum Vol. XII #2, June 1992)© Blackjack Forum 1992 There’s a new side-bet popping up at blackjack tables called Super Sevens. You’ll find it at the new Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut, and on various cruise ships. You’ll also find it at Caesars, in both Las Vegas and Stateline. The option was invented [...]
The “Senior’s System”
Card Counting for Players with Weak Vision by Arnold Snyder[From Card Player, September 1994]© 1994 Arnold Snyder Question from a Reader: I do not have very good eyesight. I love playing blackjack, but as you might imagine, card counting is not easy for me. I have no trouble distinguishing aces, kings, queens, jacks, or 2s, 3s, [...]
Are Side Counts Worth the Trouble?
Can Side Counting Make You a Super Card Counter? by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum Volume IV #3, September 1984)© Blackjack Forum 1984 I’ve spent the past four years advising blackjack players to streamline their card counting strategies. In 1980, in The Blackjack Formula, I showed that the most important factor in a card counter’s win rate is penetration. [...]
Costa Rican Rummy
Can You Beat Costa Rican Rummy with Card Counting? by Arnold Snyder(First published in Card Player, December 1993)© 1993 Arnold Snyder Question from a Player: I will be vacationing in Costa Rica again this year. They have casinos there, but blackjack is illegal. Instead, they have their own variation of blackjack, which they call “rummy” — not in [...]
Review of Repeat Until Rich
Repeat Until Rich by Josh Axelrad (reviewed) by Arnold Snyder Josh Axelrad’s Repeat Until Rich: A Professional Card Counter’s Chronicle of the Blackjack War is an engrossing read by a former player on a notorious high-stakes team whose five-year blackjack career ended more or less when he found himself barred from just about every casino in the country. [...]
Blackjack in Deadwood, South Dakota
Report on Deadwood Casinos and Blackjack Opportunities by the Bison(From Blackjack Forum XXIV #2, Spring 2005)© Blackjack Forum 2005 Ah, yes, winter in the Black Hills, 10 below one day, 65 above the next. With summer being the main tourist season, winter weekdays are usually quiet in all casinos, with many not opening their blackjack tables until [...]
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