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Recommending Red 7 In the Red 7, you pay attention to the color of the sevens. That unusual feature strikes many players as an obstacle. I'm guessing that's what zengrifter means by referring to extra effort. In my experience, this very quickly becomes second nature. It's not a matter that...

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Thanks for the information I appreciated Max's epitaph and all the other remembrances as well. Thanks to toddler for writing the Guest Podium and to the Mayor for hosting it.

The Mayor's questions Title: I agree with phantom007 that The Blackjack Zone is too similar to Blackjack in the Zone. Ph.D.: Used properly, the degree could make the book stand out from others. The idea would be to play up the idea of going against type: the nerdy (sorry, Eliot) computer...

A lawyer's good news and bad news I'm not licensed in Nevada, but from what I've read, I think that Nevada law is bad news for our correspondent. The casino can bar him without a good reason, as long as it's not for one of the bad reasons established by antidiscrimination laws (race, religion...

Uston APC I'm pretty sure that the Uston APC system is spelled out completely (the count, the index numbers, the Ace side count, using the side count to modify your bets) in the book Million Dollar Blackjack, by Ken Uston. My copy is out on semi-permanent loan, though, so I can't confirm my...

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Another problem Your proposed spread between your highest and lowest bets is only 10-1. You should have an advantage at that ratio, but not all that much of one. At the eight-deck tables, you'll spend a lot of time playing your minimum bet in negative-expectation situations. These hands are so...

Some of the content is available online While you wait for the third edition to published later this year, you can find much (though not all) of the content of the second edition at (Dead link: http://www.bjfonline.com/play.cfm) and (Dead link: http://www.bjfonline.com/beat.cfm).

True edge is not advantage zengrifter writes in part: "TE is calc'd after starting housEdge is deducted." Snyder uses "true edge" to mean the extent to which the advantage has shifted in a player-favorable direction as a result of card depletion. He writes, "Note that with the Hi-Lo Lite, you...

Referring tough question to a book... Specifically, Blackjack Attack by Don Schlesinger. He discusses the "floating advantage" -- the phenomenon that the player is better off at a true count of 0 with one deck left in a shoe than at the start of the shoe, even thought the true count is the same...

Another book about team play Formation and operation of a blackjack team is the subject of Blackjack Blueprint, by Rick "Night Train" Blaine. It has none of the mathematical analysis of Blackjack Attack, and doesn't present a counting system. Instead, it assumes you already understand counting...

There's a precedent I once knew an employee of the American Contract Bridge League whose business card mimicked a playing card -- same size, shape, plastic coating, and colored pattern on the back. He liked to say, "I have a card," and pull an apparent playing card from his wallet. Then he...

Second edition available cheap Cheap, as in free. Instead of paying a bundle for a copy of Blackbelt, which is out of print, you can get most of it online. The introductory sections are at (Dead link: http://www.bjfonline.com/play.cfm) under the rubric of "How to Play Casino Blackjack." Much...

More reasons to agree with LVBear As an employee, you would have a legal and ethical duty to act in your employer's interest. From that perspective, how would you handle these situations: (1) My personal opinion is that the profit-maximizing approach for a casino is the Zender method at the...