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Blackjack Computer (cont.) BTW, I thought the book was just great. Really entertaining -- makes me hope I can do something like that in my life some day. I lent the "Ultimate Edge" to a couple of friends of mine (who don't share my interest in blackjack), and they liked it, too. They didn't...

Blackjack Computer Billings mentioned 2 different computers in the "Ultimate Edge" book -- the Taft computer, and the one the dudes in the book built to do shuffle tracking. However. the previous poster is correct. That computer ran at 1 megahertz, and had a total of 30K of memory. 30...

Shuffle Tracking I have read only 3 blackjack books: Revere's book, Mezrich's book (which I now understand is largely fiction), and The Ultimate Edge. I am by no means a pro, so please bear with me. I found a series of articles that Mark Billings wrote for the blackjack Insider. Apropos the...

Mark Billings The Ultimate Edge I was looking for anything else Mr. Billings wrote via Google and came across this thread. The Ultimate Edge contains a huge amount on shuffle tracking, both in the main body of the book and in Appendix IV. I would love to explain it, but you would miss all...