Posts Tagged ‘games’

Stanford Wong – Blackjack Hall Of Fame

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 17:35 No Comments

Stanford Wong self-published his first book, Professional Blackjack, in 1975. It was later published by the Gambler’s Book Club in Las Vegas, then revised and expanded numerous times and published by Wong’s own company, Pi Yee Press.
Wong is widely regarded as one of the sharpest analysts of systems and methods for beating the casinos. In [...]

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Edward O. Thorp

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 17:33 No Comments

Edward Oakley Thorp is widely regarded, by professional players as well as the general public, as the Father of Card Counting. It was in his book, Beat the Dealer, first published in 1962, that he presented his Ten-Count system, the first powerful winning blackjack system ever made available to the public. All card-counting systems in [...]

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Online game master

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 17:31 No Comments

Keith Taft is not well known to the general public, but professional blackjack players know him as an electronics genius who has spent more than thirty years devising high-tech equipment-computers, video cameras, and communication devices-to beat the casinos. Blackjack was his initial and prime target. His first blackjack computer, which he completed in 1972, weighed [...]

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Max Rubin – Blackjack Hall Of Fam

Saturday, August 29, 2009 14:34 No Comments

Max is the author of Comp City, first published in 1994, with an expanded second edition published in 2002. In this groundbreaking book, Max exposed techniques even non-counting players could use to get an advantage over the casinos using weaknesses in the casinos’ comp systems. This information came from his years of experience in the [...]

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Lawrence Revere – Blackjack Hall of Fame

Saturday, August 29, 2009 14:33 No Comments

Lawrence Revere was both a serious player and talented author. He died in 1977. His only book, Playing Blackjack as a Business, initially published in 1969, is still in print. If you look at the “true count” methods that was employed pre-Revere, you will see why Revere’s name was placed into the hall of fame. [...]

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Blackjack Hall of Fame – Tommy Hyland

Saturday, August 29, 2009 14:31 No Comments

Tommy started his blackjack career in 1978 while still in college. That was also the year he formed his first informal “team.” He’s never looked back. For more than twenty-five years, he has been running the longest-lasting and most successful blackjack team in the history of the game. He and his friends have played in [...]

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Gaming addiction is fairly difficult to recognize

Friday, August 28, 2009 3:40 No Comments

It is truly hard to identify the real reason to recognize what is obsession and how it is brought about. Many people are suffering from gaming addiction and it is an actual ground to pry out the true reason for it. The emotional and the intellectual devotion with some things and a necessity of something [...]

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Tips for playing online

Thursday, July 30, 2009 1:58 No Comments

When you look at the welcome bonus and all the other benefits from joining an online casino, playing online has real advantages over the real world alternatives. Because the virtual operation does not need a major building and significant number of people to run the games, all that saving can go into financial benefits for [...]

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