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. […]
Tommy started playing blackjack professionally in 1978 while still in college. That was also the year he started 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 teammates have played in […]
Social rewards. This is a major reason behind the traditional home game. Many friends like to hang out and play cards, and many people become friends over the card table. If this is one of the major reasons you wish to play, stick with low stakes, where the games are more fun and friendly.
Entertainment. Poker […]
The most wide spread mistake beginners make is to stand too often on their stiff hands (12,13,14,15, and 16). Players are naturally afraid to hit these hands because every one of them could bust (make a total of 22 or more) with a single hit. But when the dealer has a high card (7, 8, […]
To the public at large, one of the most incomprehensible things about professional blackjack strategies is hole-card play. Hole-card play is not a single strategy, but a whole range of strategies. The one feature that can be found in all of these strategies is that the player either knows the dealer’s hole card, or has […]
Within a day, a myth can grow. A legend can sprout up out of nothing and morph into something larger than life. Soon, the myth is so big that it can come back to where it started. This is how the myths of blackjack started. Somewhere, in the past, there must have been a winner […]
It’s not the number of combinations that matters, It’s the rules by which the machine plays that matter.
That’s why it’s so important to read your machine before you start playing it. You’d be surprised how many rip-off machines get played all the time, despite the fact that they display, in clear, easy-to-read type, just how […]
Say you wish to play a 6-spot as your main number selection. Pick your six numbers on Card A. Then, on Card B, pick the same six numbers, but add one more, for a 7-spot. On Card C, you can add, say, two more numbers for a 9-spot, and on Card D you can add […]
As with all of these items concerning selection, they are intertwined at many levels. "Game detail selection" refers to the small nuances in the game, the often hard-to-see differences in pays or in the way the games play. Among reel slots, this is not nearly as important as it is among […]
