Not Paranoia?
It’s Not Paranoia If… by James Grosjean (From Blackjack Forum XXIV #1, Winter 2004/05)© Blackjack Forum 2004 [Author’s Note: In my description of the trial against the Imperial Palace (IP), quoted matter comes from direct trial testimony given under oath, available in the official court transcript, which we expect to make available online in the future (or [...]
The Laughlin Lay-a-way
Dealer Cheating at Blackjack by Sam Case (From Blackjack Forum Vol. II #3, September 1982) © 1982 Blackjack Forum I met Crazy Bob in a bar in Calgary (Alberta, Canada). I knew it was him by his “Crazy Bob — No Autographs, Please!” t-shirt. We had more than a few Molsons, and he turned me on to [...]
The First Counters
Edward O. Thorp in Las Vegas, 1962 By Russell T. Barnhart (From Blackjack Forum Volume XX #1, Spring 2000) © 2000 Blackjack Forum In the early 1960s much publicity occurred concerning a 28-year-old professor of mathematics, Edward O. Thorp, first of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Cambridge, then of New Mexico State University at Las [...]
System Smitty
System Smitty and the Blindfolded Monkeys By Arnold Snyder (From Blackjack Forum, March 1987) © 1987 Blackjack Forum Take the case of Benjamin F. “System Smitty” Smith. You may recall System Smitty’s name from Ed Thorp’s 1962 classic, Beat the Dealer. According to Thorp, Smitty was a Las Vegas character he heard about in the late 1950’s, [...]
Stock Control Shuffles
How to Stack the Deck with Stock Control Shuffles by Sam Case (with photo by Ron Hunter) (From Blackjack Forum Vol. II #4, December 1982) © 1982 Blackjack Forum I must be the world’s pickiest card player. I always study a dealer before sitting down. Although there are more ways to cheat while shuffling than there are [...]
Stickin’ It to the Safari Club
by Nick Alexander (From Blackjack Forum Volume XVII #1, Spring 1997) © Blackjack Forum 1997 August 2, 1988, Tuesday. Read an article in the Sunday Times entitled, “SAFARI CLUB’S MYSTERIES MAY BE UNSOLVABLE.” The article details an account of Park Chong Kyu’s dealings with Northrop Corp. You may remember that Northrop paid him $6,250,000 to build a hotel in [...]
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