Counting Cards in Comp City
By Max Rubin (From Blackjack Forum Vol. XIV #2, June 1994)© Blackjack Forum 1994 [The first part of this article on Las Vegas casino comps is excerpted directly from the first edition of Max Rubin’s Comp City: A Guide to Free Casino Vacations, Second Edition. The second part of this article, subtitled Comp City Outtakes, is a Blackjack Forum exclusive.] Comp Counters [...]
The Second Deal, Part I – The Strike Seco...
by Sam Case(From Blackjack Forum Vol. I #3, December 1981)© 1981 Blackjack Forum The most devastating, and unfortunately, the most common, cheating technique in the single-deck game is the second deal. In essence, the dealer appears to deal the top card, when actually the second card from the top is dealt. The second deal most often is used when [...]
Part 2: The Push-Off Second Deal
by Sam Case(From Blackjack Forum Vol. II #1, March 1982)© 1982 Blackjack Forum [Ed. Note: In “The Second Deal, Part I” Sam Case described what a second deal was, explaining the difference between the two types of second deals, the strike second deal, and the push-off second deal. The strike second deal was described in detail so that a player could [...]
Interview with Darryl Purpose
Interview with Darryl Purpose – Grizzled Veteran of the Blackjack Wars by Richard W. Munchkin (From Blackjack Forum Vol. XXIV #1, Winter 2005) © 2005 Blackjack Forum [Richard W. Munchkin is an inductee into the Blackjack Hall of Fame and the author of Gambling Wizards: Conversations with the World’s Greatest Gamblers.] [Comments from RWM: Though Darryl Purpose is [...]
How to Stack a Deck
How to Stack a Deck by Sam Case (From Blackjack Forum Vol. III #1, March 1983) © 1983 Blackjack Forum Stacking a deck requires two stages — location and placement. Location is just finding the cards, placement is putting them where you want them in the stacked deck. Whenever the exact order of the deck is prearranged, the location step can be [...]
Stuck in Aruba with Darryl Purpose
Stuck in Aruba with Darryl Purpose By Nick Alexander (From Blackjack Forum Volume XXIV #1, Winter 2004/05) © Blackjack Forum 2005 [Nick Alexander is a professional blackjack player who retires every three or four years. He currently lives a life of leisure in the south of France. After reading the last issue of Blackjack Forum he is [...]
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