Recent content by brandone

Excellent! Hopefully there will be quite a few sales. I don't know how many copies of Modern Blackjack in paperback sold (I have the book volumes 1 & 2) but hopefully this will be considered essential reading. I already consider it essential in my collection. You could definitely make a book...

Not exactly your case but I noticed this in Vegas, too, for people that are under-age. My first experience in Vegas was at age 6 when my dad snuck me on the floor and let me crank the one-armed bandit slot and I won $30.00 on a 30 cent bet on dime slot machine. Years later I went back at age 19...

You know all those lame "Scarface" t-shirts you see kids and $5-maximum-playing adults wearing? We should make similar tees, in the same fashion, that include faces of Wong, Thorpe, Griffin, et cetera. Or maybe a Mount Rushmore style shirt including seven BJ great faces. Either way it would be...

Good points Lonesome. I was thinking about that, too; referencing hit/stay on a stiff 15 or 16 against a 10, when they of course know what 'the book' says AND I've made that play the same way repeatedly. Best to just spend time memorizing them and then look like a gambler making decisions by the...

I guess it depends on the online casino. Most will shuffle the deck after each hand played. If they from a single deck, and it's casino-style with multiple players or you're playing multiple hands, and you're sitting at third-base (the last seat to be dealt), I *guess* you might be able to...

When I was first learning to play blackjack, I used something similar to the Basic Strategy Engine located here on BJInfo and hand-wrote all of the plays for both double-deck and six-deck on two index cards; one per game. Later I designed it in Photoshop and had it printed and laminated on hard...

Advantage players, we have a new line to laugh at and bring into our vocabulary of classical Hollywood misrepresentation of counting. 'That's a six-deck shoe I was beating; No-one beats a six-deck shoe!'. Read on for more. There's a new TV series on NBC called 'Outlaw' featuring Jimmy Smits...

Speaking with another member of this board, I was told that the author of the Zen method, Arnold Snyder, switched back to the original true-count instead of the true-edge method. Apparently it's not as effective. I would suggest you use TC instead of "TE" as Snyder went back to it. I say "went...

Any advantage players in the St. Louis metro area, or planning to be in the next month, that would consider meeting with (an)other APs? I want to get a few people together to swap stories, strategies, advice for STL area casinos, etc. We could meet at one of the restaurants or bars at a local...

Tonight I decided to do nothing except count from the back of the tables and wait until a REKO running count of zero before jumping in. The first table I faired pretty well on the four hands I played, and the second table I flushed out pretty quickly dobule the gains from the previous table...

Does anyone have any blackjack books for sale? I'd rather buy from our local BJInfo brethren before going to other sites. I'm looking for both classics and contemporary books. Any condition other than ripped up by a pit boss work for me :-). I can pay via Paypal.

Did you know that all of the numbers on a roulette table, when added, equal 666? Just food for thought.

Anyone familiar with sites that list blackjack games (rules, side-bets, promotions, minimum/maximum, penetration, other relevent information) by casino/region? I know of TrackJack.com but I haven't signed up because I am unsure of the information I will find. I hear there are newsletters out...

Refresh of this topic! Bottom line -- this stuff takes a lot of practice and determination and concentration. Sound like something else we know? I was just reading about the Professional Roulette Prediction system. I did some further research and have found quite a lot of information on the...

Okay guys. You know what this is. Schroedinger's cat can be akin to the dealer's hole card or the next card in the shoe except the cards are not as cute and furry (and possibly deceased? :cat:). AKA -- The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle -- except our particles are cards in the shoe. How do...