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People have been going to casinos with "winning" Blackjack sys-tems for years. The casino management never worried about any of these "systems" because they were convinced all of the casinos' games were unbeatable. As a result, once the Las Vegas casinos realized that the method outlined in Thorp's Beat the Dealer was a legitimate winning system, they panicked. For the first time in years, the... |
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| DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACCURATE BASIC STRATEGY
Basic Strategy is the term applied to a system of play providing the highest betting yield without keeping track of the cards al-ready played. It was the search for such a strategy that led Messrs. Baldwin, Cantey, Maisel, and McDermott to spend three years pounding calculators. As covered in Chapter One, their work attracted the attention of Professor ... |
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WARNING SIGNS OF A CHEATING DEALER
A general statement about cheating comes from former casino owner Harold Smith, Jr. He states in his website I Want to Quit Winners, "We could cheat all the time and they [agents of the Gaming Control Board] would never know it. We're far more ex-pert at this business than they are." If Smith's statements are true, then how can the average player eve... |
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CHOOSING A SEAT
You are now ready to sit down and lay your money on the spot The final question in our casino-to-chair sequence is where to sit Go back and briefly review the illustration of a Blackjack table before reading on. Since the dealer gives the players cards fron his left to right (your right to left), first base is the seat farthesi to the right. First base plays first. The last posi... |
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TYPICAL TRIPS AND PLAYING RECORDS
One of the splendid aspects of being a casino Blackjack player is that I have an excuse to go somewhere else, preferably some' place warm when it's bitter winter where I live. In fact, the most, fabulous holiday I've ever had was just such a trip to Aruba.
BLACKJACK IN THE SUN: ARUBA
My wife had tried to get me to take a winter holiday for nearly' ten ... |
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BLACKJACK ON THE BOARDWALK: ATLANTIC CITY
Lest you think of all gambling as a relaxed romp in tropical splendor, I think you should hear about the early casino days of New Jersey. By the time you read this, the problem has lessened by having more casinos up and going.
The Resorts International Casino in Atlantic City had an official license to monopolize gambling in New Jersey in its first ... |
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ANALYZING TABLE CONDITIONS
After studying the options for the location you plan to visit, you., ' should be able to identify several favorable casinos. Once you enter 11 these casinos you will be confronted with more options to analyze, ; several varying from table to table.
NUMBER OF DECKS
In general, the more decks that are used, the worse it is for the player. One of the first moves th... |
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Marketing studies have shown that retail credit customers will buy more than cash customers. The casino industry has recog-nized this fact in gambling as well, and caters to players who use significant credit lines. A player using credit will be given a slip of paper called a marker, upon which he or she fills out an amount and then signs. (The marker is a negotiable instrument, which can ... |
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BLACKJACK IN PARADISE: PARADISE ISLAND
"Welcome to Paradise" flashed the sign as we crossed the bridge from Nassau to Paradise Island. Our limousine driver, Charlie the Great, assured us that we were truly entering Paradise. I use "the Great" when talking about Charlie because that's how he intro-duced himself to us when he picked us up at the airport. "The Great" ... |
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| The list of casinos is long and growing constantly. What you. find here are brief descriptions of some of the better-known more established places to play Blackjack.
Britain
The gambling industry here is strictly controlled by the British Gaming Board. The philosophy of the board seems to be to pro-11tect the players from themselves. Therefore, no irresistible temp-°tations are offered, an... |
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