Last weekend was the 17th annual Blackjack Ball. This is my favorite party of the year since it allows me to see so many people that I only see once a year. It is a gathering of professional gamblers of the highest level.
Posts tagged card counting
To card, or not to card. That is the question.
There is a lot of debate on the internet on whether or not one should use a player’s card. As my loyal readers know, I usually fall on the side of not using one. But I realized recently that the reason I advocate not using a player’s card is because I assume I am talking […]
Podcast – guest Mark Billings
The guest this week is Mark Billings, author of The Bias Wheel Handbook, and The Ultimate Edge. This episode focuses on roulette. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
Podcast – guest John Chang
This week’s guest is John Chang, head of the famous MIT blackjack team featured in the movie 21, and the book Bringing Down the House. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
Advice to new card counters
It seems there are a lot of new card counters on the blackjack boards recently. I don’t know if they received blackjack books as early Christmas presents, or maybe the movie 21 has been playing on cable, but for whatever reasons the new posts are proliferating, often with the same questions, and often making the […]
Podcast – guest Bob Nersesian #4
The guest this week is Bob Nersesian. Bob is a frequent guest to the show, and always entertaining. Bob is the lawyer who advocates for the players against the casinos, and has successfully sued many Vegas casinos on the behalf of players. He is also the author of Beat the Players. Bob Nersesian podcast Click […]
Podcast – guest Willy Allison
This week’s guest is Willy Allison, surveillance expert, and CEO of World Game Protection Inc. I thought this was a really good episode with lots of good info on surveillance. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
Podcast – guest Arnold Snyder
This week’s guest is Arnold Snyder talking about his new novel Risk of Ruin. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
Darryl Purpose – Next Time Around
For those of you not familiar, Darryl Purpose is a member of the Blackjack Hall of Fame. I did an extensive interview with him, which you can read here – interview. In the interview he said that when he was 16 his mother gave him a copy of Beat the Dealer, but he forgave her because […]
1536 Free Waters – book review
The full title of this book is actually, 1536 Free Waters and Other Blackjack Endeavors: Finding Profit and Humor in Card-Counting. The author is Glen Wiggy, an amateur card counter, and a mathematician. The book is part “how to”, part memoir, and part miscellaneous stories that started out as blog posts at blackjackstories.com. This is NOT a book for […]
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