The most famous book Stanford Wong wrote is Professional Blackjack. Wong had a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University, hence his pseudonym. This book was the next big advance for card counters. Wong described his playing style, which included table-hopping shoe games to avoid playing at negative counts. As four-deck shoes were the most widely […]
Blunder: The most common 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, […]
I am skeptical of much of what Scarne has written in his book about blackjack, so I’ll quote from Mickey MacDougall’s MacDougall on Dice and Cards (Coward-McCann, 1944, NY), which was published prior to any of Scarne’s books: “Many professionals dress up the game by giving prizes for certain hands. A favorite stunt is to […]
When people join clubs, it is usually for the shared interests, enthusiasm and passion that everyone in the group shares. For the most part, folks join already knowing what their counterparts are like. Book clubs, movie groups, knitting circles online! They all have terms and ideologies about their group’s topics that can be, well, predictable. […]
