Burning the Tables in Las Vegas Reviewed
Burning the Tables in Las Vegas (Revised and Expanded) by Ian Andersen Review by Arnold Snyder Ian Andersen’s first book, Turning the Tables on Las Vegas, was original and important enough to make him one of seven nominees in 2005 for the Blackjack Hall of Fame. The book was the first to deal with beating blackjack as a [...]
Bringing Down the House Reviewed
Bringing Down the House, The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millionsby Ben Mezrich (Simon & Shuster, 2002); 257 pages; hdbd; Price: $24.00. by Arnold Snyder Bringing Down The House is subtitled: “The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.” And that is exactly what the book is. [...]
Interview with Bob Bright, Day Trader
Meet the Bright Brothers: Card Counters Turned Stock Market Billionaires by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum Volume XX #4, Winter 2000)© Blackjack Forum 2000 [In the Summer 2000 issue of Blackjack Forum, we ran a small advertisement for Bright Trading, a Las Vegas stock trading firm specifically seeking card counters to become professional day traders. Many readers asked me what [...]
Snyder Reviews Break the Dealer
Review of Break the Dealer by Arnold Snyder (From Blackjack Forum IX #2, June 1982)© 1982 Blackjack Forum If I owned a casino, I would place Break the Dealer prominently in my gift shop magazine rack. I would give it away to all of the high rollers who played at my tables. I would place a copy in every room [...]
Interview with Andy Blumen, Attorney at Law
Do Casinos Have the Right to “Back Room” You? by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum VI #3, September 1986)© Blackjack Forum 1986 [Andrew Blumen is a Las Vegas attorney who specializes in representing professional gamblers vs. casinos. With so many reports in the past few years in these pages of honest blackjack players being backroomed, harassed, arrested and [...]
The Blind Man versus the Eye
Stories from Casino Surveillance By D.V. Cellini(First published in Casino Player, March 2004)© 2005 Blackjack Forum Online It was a beautiful spring afternoon, a perfect day for heading out of Reno to the nearby Sierras, maybe even a drive to Lake Tahoe. But there I was, sitting in the dark, the only light provided by a [...]
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