Common Casino Jargon
Glossary of Casino Terms By the Vindicator© 2004 Blackjack Forum Online B comp. Free beverage comp Big. A term for $100, as in five “big” = $500 Beans. Slang for cheques Bet spread. The difference between a player’s lowest and highest wagers Bird dog. See “Shill” BFA. Black female adult Black Book. See Excluded List Bleed. The slow draining of the float or [...]
Casino Surveillance: Here Comes the High-Tech F...
Safe Jack and BJ Tracker by Arnold Snyder(From Card Player, May 1993© 1993 Arnold Snyder [Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Card Player’s May 21, 1993 issue, some 2½ years prior to the first published announcement of Mikohn Gaming’s “Safe Jack” casino surveillance system for detecting card counters. Did I “invent” Safe Jack? No . . . [...]
New Basic Strategy for Counters
Card Counters’ Basic Strategy: Is It For You? by Hal Marcus(From Blackjack Forum Vol. XXIII, #4, Winter 2003/04© 2003 Blackjack Forum [Note from Arnold Snyder: The purpose of this article is to help players who are already counting cards to decide if they should use a fixed, altered version of blackjack basic strategy for their playing decisions, [...]
The Cost of Errors
Card Counting Tip of the Day: To Err is Human, and Expensive! by Arnold Snyder(From Card Player, June 1996)© 1996 Arnold Snyder One of the things that separates the successful, world-class blackjack pros from the struggling masses of card counters is mistakes. World class players simply don’t make many. Some card counting errors are very costly, while [...]
Blackjack Betting Camouflage
The “Up and Down” Betting System For Card Counting Camouflage by Arnold Snyder© 1995 Arnold Snyder[From Card Player, February 1995] Question from a Reader: What do you think of a betting strategy for card counting where you always come off the top of the shoe with a midsize bet, say $25, then cut back to smaller [...]
Card Counters’ Guide to Vegas Accommodati...
The Hotel Rooms of Las Vegas by G.K. Schroeder(From Blackjack Forum Vol. XIV #4, December 1994)© 1994 Blackjack Forum [Note: Being as this article was written almost 30 years ago,a lot of the recommendations will be obsolete. But the author does provide a lot of good information on hos counters should think about their accommodations, plus, it [...]
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