Whats on your bookshelf?

[nightspirit]

When i checked earlier i'm sure nightspirit had posted asking the difference between Card Counting and Advantage Play for the Casino Executive but it doesn't seem to be here now. Maybe it was someone else, or maybe i've read one too many messages and it's finally driven me over the edge....
Anyway - Card Counting is in my opinion a fairly average book covering the basics of - surprisingly - card counting using the Hi/Lo count as i recall and going over the basics of how to spot a card counter.
Advantage Play however is a fantastic work covering just about every sort of advantage play in every game. How they work, and how to spot them. This works both ways as it gives you a good idea of what not to do to get away with different forms of play. It was a close one for the top 5.
Highly recommended.

RJT.

You read right it was here, but i deleted the post because meanwhile i found the answer one another site. I didn't want to hold you back from other things. (but thanks for your response.) I think i stick with Zender's "AP for the CE" together with Cellini's report it covers all I wanted to know about how surveillance works. I second your top 5. But I would exclude the Manual and substitute it with Thorp's "Beat the dealer". It simple belongs there. No offend taken the Manual contains all you need to know as hi-lo user (except optimal betting, but therefore we have CVCX), so Top 10 would be OK.

 

[zengrifter]

In my collection, I have the following:

The World's Greatest Blackjack Book
Professional Blackjack
Blackjack Ace Prediction
Play Blackjack like the Pros

I've been meaning to pick up a copy of Blackbelt in Blackjack. Any suggestions on which version/year? I already use the complete zen count with the full index from cvbj. So probably one before the true edge editions.

I also have a couple of poker books.

Josh

Just thget the most recent/complete version, BUT stick with your version of ZEN. zg

 

[suicyco maniac]

I have well over 100 BJ books +the complete collection of Blackjack Review magazine and most of the Blackjack Forum issues (still working on getting those) and some other general gambling books.

I am too lazy to dig them all out and list them. Here is a quick list off the top of my head of some of the more rare or valuable ones.

Blackjack for profit, Snyder (extremely tiny!)
Blackjack formula, Snyder
Winning without counting, Wong (First Ed. Autographed)
Professional BJ, Wong (First Ed.)
Wong's early BJ newsletters, Wong (just a few copies)
Beyond counting, Grosjean (read too many times, tattered and worn)
Read the dealer, Forte
Casino game protection, Forte
The big player, Uston
Uston on BJ, Uston (I didn't think this was that rare but listed it for Zengrifter)
Gambling times magazine (All the issues with Uston articles)
Playing BJ as a business, Revere (First Ed.)
Turning the tables on Las Vegas, Anderson (First Ed.)
How to win at BJ, Charles Einstein (68? Ed. can't remember)
Cheating at BJ, Marks
Cheating at BJ squared, Marks
Blackjack a professional reference, Dalton
21 counting methods to beat 21, Koko Ita
Silver Fox BJ system, Stricker
Card counters guide to Casino surveillance, Cellini



And I saved this one for last.

Blackjack'$ winning formula, Patterson (a book before he went nuts and started pushing TARGET.)
Not really rare or valuable to collectors but its rare for me to have a Patterson book.

I could probably come up with some more but I'm lazy.

Just thought of one more

Hollywood BJ, Dave Stann Aka HollyDeezy WTF? (rare because it is so new and also so painful to read that few should have it)

 

[darrislance]

One of my favoritesd, almost no one has - Uston On Blackjack -

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Grifter,

What do you like about the book? I've been through my copy a few times and personally I find my mind drifting away from the material. The book seems to have a lot of substance, but little style, which is good, but makes it difficult to hold peoples attention. That's just me.

 

[BJinNJ]

For Good Deals on BJ Books

go to Half.com . There are always hundreds for sale.
You can sort them by price, too.

They have Kevin Blackwood's books, Revere's book,
Peter Griffin's book, etc. at VERY GOOD PRICES. Just
be sure you get the edition you want. Some are the
outdated, unrevised versions.

I'm talking 75¢ to $1, plus s/h. Total cost about $5.

BJinNJ

 

[SilentBob420BMFJ]

its called a library.. i work at one, so i only own one book, that being play bj like the pros.. most libraries have something called 'inter library loan' which is where if your library doesnt have a book, they can borrow it from another library.. some of you have $200+ worth of books, which could be applied towards your bankroll, unless of course you have like tens of thousands for your bankroll

 

[Kaiser]

It might save money, but not everyone wants to take a book out of the library every time they want to check a number or reread a section of a book.

 

[shadroch]

its called a library.. i work at one, so i only own one book, that being play bj like the pros.. most libraries have something called 'inter library loan' which is where if your library doesnt have a book, they can borrow it from another library.. some of you have $200+ worth of books, which could be applied towards your bankroll, unless of course you have like tens of thousands for your bankroll

Try running to a library at 3am when a question pops up.If you aren't willing to pluck down a few books to have references handy,thats up to you.My library cost me about 15 minutes worth of typical action.Somehow I'll survive.

 

[Bobaloo]

Uh... so does this mean that the copy of Thorp's Beat the Dealer I have carefully stored away for 30 years (2d edition) contains a basic strategy that is no longer valid?

Damn. I was just getting ready to use it again.

 

[shadroch]

Uh... so does this mean that the copy of Thorp's Beat the Dealer I have carefully stored away for 30 years (2d edition) contains a basic strategy that is no longer valid?

Damn. I was just getting ready to use it again.

Its not that far off,if you find the right games.

 

[BJinNJ]

Picked Up Snyder's Blackbelt in BJ

finally. Started reading it, well into the night, yesterday.
It's longer than I expected. Tired today!

Also found a good site with reviews on many BJ books:

http://www.bjrnet.com/member/bjapr/BJBooks.htm#TOP

BJinNJ

 

[bigbjfan]

I've got Blackbelt, blackjack blueprint, Knockout. Probably one more but I cannot recall right now.

 

[The Stork]

the ego doesn't bark

is very entertaining too, although you can not buy it yet. Zen needs to edit it.......LOL By the way looking to the river collecting the pictures of it isn't good enough. It is about you jumping in that river, and forget about all the rest of side effects not being able to deal with what love can really bring to you.... A leader...or a slave of self imposed illusion. the difference between need and being, between friends and having none or one.


Sorry I am in the **** mode today. It is the outcome of consistently having to live in a society of people, complaining and excuses without the guts to explore life on their own.

an aggrivated St:flame:rk