Graduating from Red Chip to Green
Moving Up from Low Stakes Blackjack by Barfarkel(From Blackjack Forum, Vol. XXIII #4, Winter 2003/04)© 2004 Blackjack Forum [Barfarkel is the author of You’ve Got Heat: The Vegas Card Counting Adventures of LV Pro ] The first time I stacked up four greens on a maximum bet, my heart was pounding. My initial reluctance to make a max bet [...]
“Normal” Flux and Your Blackjack Ba...
Waiting for the Long Run by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum , Vol. X #3, September 1990)© Blackjack Forum 1990 Usually, I take this opening space to fool around with some inane concept that has no serious bearing on anyone’s strategic attack on the game. You may find occasional snippets of information herein, usually tied to some moral [...]
John Leib Challenges Leonard Benson
Power Numbers Blackjack System Confronted by Arnold Snyder and John Leib(From Blackjack Forum XV #3, September 1995)© 1995 Blackjack Forum Have you see this Power Numbers Blackjack advertisement, or one similar to it, in a newspaper or magazine in your area? Variations on this ad have been sent to us by readers in California, Nevada, New York and New [...]
The Long Arm of the Eye
Casino Bars Card Counters From 3000 Miles Away (From Blackjack Forum Volume VIII #2, June 1988)© 1988 Blackjack Forum Letter from Nevada: “Here’s an amusing story about a casino barring (true): Two professional card counters (call them Tom and Jerry) were loudly debating non random shuffles in The Gamblers Book Club along with me. While the conversation [...]
Leonard Benson’s Power Numbers Blackjack
A Report on the Claims, Training, and Results in Play by John Leib(From Blackjack Forum XVI #1, Spring 1996)© 1996 Blackjack Forum [Ed. note: In the September ’95 issue of Blackjack Forum, we published a letter that mathematician John Leib wrote to Leonard Benson, in which Leib offered to test the POWER NUMBERS BLACKJACK™ system, which Benson was heavily [...]
Bet Sizing for Recreational Players
Blackjack Betting: The Leib Criterion vs. the Kelly Criterion by John Leib© 1993 Blackjack Forum[From Blackjack Forum Vol. XIII #3, September 1993] Just when you thought it was safe to buy in,Along comes blackjack’s black sheep with… [Note from Arnold Snyder: In this article, our favorite heretic, mathematician John Leib, continues his arguments against the universally-accepted Kelly [...]
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