Card Counting in the Courts: Caesars and Circus...
By Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum XV #4, December 1995)© Blackjack Forum 1995 The initial news reports on the arrests of Tommy Hyland blackjack team members Christopher Z., Barbara D., and Karen C. came to the Blackjack Forum offices from newspapers all over the U.S. and Canada. On May 28, 1994, the three were arrested at the brand new Casino Windsor and charged with cheating at [...]
Casino Tournament Strategy: Stanford Wong Spill...
by Arnold Snyder(From Blackjack Forum Vol. VII #1, March 1987© 1987 & 2012 Blackjack Forum Serious blackjack players are about to enter a new era of play. The Age of the Professional Tournament Player has been ushered in with the publication of a new book by Stanford Wong—Tournament Blackjack. [Editor’s note: Wong’s book has since been revised and [...]
The Cat and Mouse Game, Part II: Is the Game Ov...
By Bill Zender (From Blackjack Forum Volume XXIV #4, Fall 2005)© 2005 Blackjack Forum [Editor’s Note: In this article, Bill Zender, a former Gaming Control agent and successful co-owner/casino manager of the Aladdin Hotel and Casino, discusses the resistance of casino managers to objective lessons in casino math he provided at a recent seminar at the University [...]
The Case of the Missing $7K
From the Journals of Nick Alexander(From Blackjack Forum Volume XVII #2, Summer 1997)© Blackjack Forum 1997 Now as you may know… or maybe you don’t, professional gamblers travel around and often need large amounts of cash. Because we’re a closely knit fraternity professional gamblers loan each other this cash without a second thought. A quick aside. I [...]
Your Options When You Are Cheated in a Casino
by Sam Case(From Blackjack Forum Vol. III #2, June 1983)© 1983 Blackjack Forum It’s time for more comments about dealer cheating in general. I’ve said before that I rarely suspect dealers of cheating. I used to play only low-stakes. Since that time, I’ve logged in quite a few hours with Crazy Bob’s team, at high stakes. I [...]
Blackjack Cruise, Auto-Shoes, Lotta Blues…...
From the Journals of Nick Alexander(From Blackjack Forum Volume XIX #1, Spring 1999)© Blackjack Forum 1999 I’m reading the paper in Hong Kong and see that there have been three more shootings as part of the gang war going on in Macau. Last week there were two people actually shot inside the casino, and bombs are going [...]
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