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Play Blackjack Like the Pros
By: Kevin BlackwoodeBook Publisher: HarperCollins
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Professional blackjack player Kevin Blackwood shares his million-dollar winning strategies for mastering the odds and consistently beating the house at their own game.
Play Blackjack Like the Pros is the requisite introduction to the modern game of blackjack, including high and low stakes casino, shoe games (several decks shuffled together), online, and tournaments. Blackwood begins with the basic rules of play and then moves on to teach his proven card-counting method, broken-down into three levels: novice, recreational, and professional. He also covers camouflaging techniques (it's perfectly legal to count cards, but if the house catches you they will kick you out), money management, and team play. Blackwood includes many stories of his and other professionals' triumphs at the tables and keeps the highly technical language that bogs down most gaming books to an absolute minimum.
Play Blackjack Like the Pros is written in the style of Phil Hellmuth's Play Poker Like the Pros using easy-to-understand lessons that all levels of players can quickly benefit from.
Blackwood is one of the world's top card counters. He began with only a few hundred dollars and has won over a million playing blackjack. In Play Blackjack Like the Pros he demonstrates how to earn over $10,000 a month from just a few days work.
Blackjack is set to balloon in popularity. Ben Mezrich's book on the MIT card counting team Bringing Down the House was on the New York Times bestseller list for weeks and is being made into a movie staring Kevin Spacey. Blackjack Tournaments are growing in popularity with many of the top casinos offering large prize pools. Online Blackjack is currently a multi-million dollar industry. Blackwood keeps the highly technical language that bogs down most gaming books to an absolute minimum.
Foreword by Stanford Wong, author of Professional Blackjack and the master of modern card counting.
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Play Blackjack Like the Pros
Chapter One
The Myths of BlackjackThe Typical Tourist
One of the biggest obstacles keeping most blackjack players from improving their game is that they aren't realistic about their current skill level. It is human nature to overrate ourselves and few of us are very objective in analyzing our flaws. A large number of tourists think they play basic strategy accurately. They may even have read a book or bought a laminated card intended to teach them the correct method.
Yet in the fast-paced environment of the casino, what little they learned often melts away in the heat of battle. They never quite embedded proper strategy into their brain so it became second nature. Instead, they use some combination of correct plays and hunches. For example, they are told to always hit 16 against the dealer's face card, so they dutifully comply, only to bust out three times in a row. Inevitably, the next time the tourist receives the dreaded 16, he gives up on basic strategy and stands.
This time the dealer draws the paint and pays the table. The tourist is pleased and elated that he could outsmart the experts. He becomes convinced there's a better future in consulting an ouija board for his decisions than in relying on basic strategy.
This is one of the more common gambler's fallacies and is called selective memory. I will discuss a few of these misconceptions in this chapter to illuminate why blackjack is different from other casino games, and show the real reasons why it can be beaten.
Selective Memory
Like some mythical monsters, selective memory rears its ugly head in many shapes and forms....
