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Continue For the main character of the book, see Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time. John Ferguson (born 1943), known by the pseudonym Stanford Wong, is the author of Gambling, best known for his book Professional Blackjack, first published in 1975. Wong's Blackjack Analyzer computer program, originally created for personal use, was one of the first parts of the commercially available blackjack chance analysis software. Wong appeared on television several times as a participant in the blackjack tournament or as a gambling expert. He owns Pi Yee Press, which has published books by other gambling authors, including King Yao. Blackjack Wong began playing blackjack in 1964, teaching financial courses at San Francisco State University and earning a doctorate in finance from Stanford University in California. Not content with teaching, Wong agreed to receive a salary of $1 for the last term of school, so as not to attend teacher meetings and to continue his gambling career. The term Wong (v.) or Wonging began to mean a certain technique of advantage in blackjack, which Wong made popular in the 1980s. and then go out again. Wonging is the reason that some casinos have signs on some blackjack tables saying: No Mid-Shoe Entry, meaning that a new player has to wait until just first hand after shuffling to start playing. He reviewed or acted as a consultant to blackjack writers and researchers, including and Jan Andersen. Wong is known to have been the main operator of the team's advantage players who targeted casino tournaments including Blackjack, Craps and Video in and around Las Vegas. At the beginning of the team's work, Wong was the main financier providing travel expenses and buying bets for other players. The current owner of Las Vegas Advisor Anthony Curtis was among the members of this team. Wong is a member of the Blackjack Hall of Fame. Current Blackjack News In 1979, Wong began publishing monthly newsletters on blackjack. They grew into one of the main magazines for professional blackjack players, Wong Current Blackjack News, ranking with The 's . As of 2007, Wong's newsletter is published on Wong's official website. The magazine provides information on the rules and conditions of blackjack games in casinos in the United States and some other countries. Stanford Wong's website BJ21 has been online since 1997. It contains a free zone and a limited, subscriber-only area called Green Chip. Each month, one message from the exclusion zone is chosen by Wong as the post of the month and The author wins a prize of $100. The Record holder for the number of Post of the Month awards is a blackjack expert known as MathProf, with 16 wins. Craps Wong wrote Wong on Dice, which allegedly shows how a casino dice game can be beaten through controlled dice throwing. Many Blackjack experts are skeptical of Wong's bone claims, and this is a hotly contested issue, as opposed to counting cards in blackjack, which can be mathematically proven. Wong himself was initially skeptical of the suggestion that the bones could be controlled in craps. Personal Life Name Stanford Wong is a pseudonym; the author's real name is John Ferguson. His first choice for the alias was Nevada Smith, but that name was accepted. Stanford Wong was chosen by a friend in the PhD program, taking his alma mater as his name and Asian surname to provide the mysticism of the East. Wong lives in La Jolla, California, with his wife. They have two adult children who are college graduates and married. Wong's Company Pi Yee Press is currently based in Las Vegas. Books Professional Blackjack (1975) Professional video poker Wong on the dice (2006). Pi Yee Press (pdf). ISBN 0-935926-26-7 Blackjack Secrets Essential Blackjack (1992). Pi Yee Press, ISBN 0-935926-19-4 Tournament Blackjack Tournament Craps Full Idiot Management Guide T Optimal Strategy for Pai Go Poker Vegas Downtown Blackjack Sharp Sports Betting Casino Strategies Cheap Claims Winning Without Counting Full Idiot Gambling Guide as BlackjackInfo.com Pro Notes Received April 5, 2014. - Basic Blackjack, p. 4 - Information on green chip BJ21.com Archive 2011-10-27 in Wayback Machine - Post of the Month wins $100 for MathProf BJ21.com, July 2, 2011 Archived April 25, 2012 at Wayback Machine and Cooper, Marc (August 29, 2007). Gambling on distribution: Las Vegas-style sports betting. Los Angeles Times. Received on September 28, 2009. Storms, Steve. Meet Stanford Wong - Guru Blackjack. American Casino Guide. Received on October 21, 2010. Stanford Wong Biography. BJ21.com archive from the original 2007-06-26. Links Stanford Wong (1992). Basic Blackjack. Pi And Press. ISBN 0-935926-19-4. External Links Official Website Stanford Wong Sharp Sports Betting Blackjacked - Card counters condemn the casino's rough tactics of Bob Shemeligian, Las Vegas Mercury, October 16, 2003 extracted from the Showing 1-10 Beginning of Your Review of Professional Blackjack March 14, 2015 William rated it very much though, it's a solid reference that every serious blackjack should have a player in his. Contains full sets of index numbers for the popular Hi-Lo System. Samn rated it was amazing february 03, 2014 Kevin Dietzler appreciated it was amazing July 05, 2013 Brad appreciated it really liked February 14, 2013 Joe Lanham appreciated it was amazing December 28, 2014 10 CHAPTER 1 Gambler INTRODUCTIONs around the world to win and lose millions in blackjack casinos and private clubs and private clubs. A handful of professionals support themselves by playing blackjack, and they call themselves investors, not players. Investing means waiting for money to grow and sometimes putting it in a risky situation. Gambling means placing money in a risky situation and hoping that it will grow, but knowing that it is likely to shrink. The investor buys stocks and bonds and real estate while the player plays dice and keno and slot machines. For most people, playing blackjack gambling; but, for some, it's an investment. Casino owners set blackjack rules, and the card counter always remains within these rules. You don't break the law when you win money using a system. Blackjack is a sporting proposition. The casinos issued the call; The card counter takes on casino terms and usually wins. It's always nice to beat someone in that person's own game. The purpose of this book is to serve as a convenient reference to blackjack players. When you travel, if there is a chance that you will come across a blackjack game, take this book with you. Whatever rules you encounter in blackjack, you should be able to open this book and find a basic strategy, and usually strategy numbers that advise you when to deviate from the main strategy. Chapter 2 of the Organization presents a common basic strategy. The rest of the book looks at situations where it is appropriate to disassociate yourself from the overall baseline strategy. Deviations from the overall baseline strategy are highlighted by a bold type. Chapter 3 presents a system of high low vote counting for one common set of rules. Below are the chapters, at the heart of the main strategies and insurance indices, double down, splitting and capitulating. Chapter 8 is dedicated to blackjack games in which the dealer does not accept the hole card. Then come chapters dedicated to straights, ties, aces, and busted hands. Chapters are dedicated to multi-card bonuses and hand bonuses, such as 6-7-8 of the same suit. You should be able to find the index strategy numbers you need for the rules you face in the casino of your choice. Chapter 16 is dedicated to older/under 13 years of age, which is a two-party bet. You can bet that your first two cards will be a total of more than thirteen or thirteen years old. Aces are considered one, not eleven, and thirteen loses. Over/under 13 can be used profitably by card counters. Chapter 17 is dedicated rates are not covered elsewhere in the book. Chapter 18 presents a more powerful system of counting votes, halves. Chapter 19 is dedicated to double exposure. It's This. a blackjack in which both dealer cards are exposed before the players act, and the connections go to the dealer. Chapter 20 and up explain some of the intricacies of blackjack, such as other ways to gain an advantage, the subtle points of blackjack play, how to play without getting kicked out, like winning faster, tokes, comps, and cheating on the part of the dealer. Chapter 29 presents several studies of casino shuffling. The app contains tables of strategies, expectations, and frequencies of specific hands. The underlying strategy of the Casino arrived in blackjack almost entirely due to players deviating from the main strategy. The average player knows almost nothing about the correct hand blackjack game, makes mistakes about 15% of the time, and loses at a rate of about 1.4% worse than the basic strategy. (Peter Griffin has studied this topic; these figures come from Chapter 15 of his extra things.) Standing on all stiffs against 2.3.4, 5 and 6 and hitting all the stiffness against 7, 8, 9, 10, and An ace will take you out of the 1.4% category and make you a better-than-average player. Even with good blackjack books available in stores across the country for decades, most players still stand at sixteen vs. 7; it's an expensive mistake. If you want to play blackjack to win, you should at least know the approach to the main strategy. Chapter 2 presents a common basic strategy, an approximation that is good enough for almost all blackjack rules. Subsequent chapters provide more information about the underlying strategy, so you can fine-tune your game to comply with the exact rules you face. Playing basic strategies puts you close even at all casinos, and gives you an edge in some. If you want more information about which casinos have rules so liberal that the basic strategy gives you an advantage, the best source is current Blackjack News. Aside from the basic strategy, if you find a casino in which the dealer checks the hole cards under the age of 10, chapters 20 to 22 can help you pick up anywhere from half a percent to a few percentage points. If you play the basic strategy as a base, picking up half a percent will lead you to a break-even point with standard rules, and picking up a percentage will give you the kind of long-term advantage enjoyed by the pros. And, of course, there is a counting of cards, which is explained in this book. This is probably a good place to provide against illegal actions. I'm not a believer in deception. I'm not a proponent of tactics like grabbing a handful of chips and running. There are many ways to gain a legitimate advantage over casinos; You should not resort to ways that can lead to fines, jail and criminal records. The ethics of casino gambling ethics are simple. The casino owner, not you, is responsible for the procedures. If you notice you don't have to tell anyone about it. If you can take advantage of this vulnerability, you can do so. Example Example vulnerability is the wrong win. Your bet is not lost until the dealer raises it; If the dealer doesn't pick it up you haven't lost it. If the dealer pays you by mistake and no pit boss rushes to fix it, then you have a winner. You can contact the dealer if you like, but you have no legal or social obligation to do so. Some vulnerable procedures give you more information. For all your solutions, you can use any information available regardless of the source. One day when I was playing a single-deck blackjack at El Capitan in Hawthorne, Nevada, a dealer ran lucky and winning almost every hand. When he accidentally broke a corner from Spade 7 during a shuffle, instead of replacing a card or deck he continued to deal with, thinking to give the players a break. I wouldn't have any doubts about doubling down on a hard thirteen or fourteen if I saw that card I would get missing the corner. The story of Victory is Blackjack Baldwin, Cantey, Maisel, and McDermott published a substantially correct basic strategy in the Journal of the American Statistical Association in 1956. Their book, Game Blackjack to Win, came out in 1957. The first published victory system was Edward O. Thorpe's tenth account of his Beat the Dealer in 1962. In the early 1960s, blackjack was a one-deck game in which 50 of the 52 cards were dealt, and could be doubled after the pair split. At the end of the deck, the dealer runs out of cards and shuffles to complete the round. Thorpe's revolutionary system has been effective for five or six years; It's out of date primarily because of casino countermeasures shuffling early, not a matter of almost all cards. The high low level created by Harvey Dubner in 1963 is still effective. The first published version was a 1966 revision of the Thorpe Beat Dealer. All popular counting systems are variations of the ten-account of Thorpe or High-Low Dubner. For every experienced player there are hundreds of players who know enough about blackjack betting big with confidence, but don't really know enough to have an edge over the dealer. Then there are those players who know what they have to do to win but prefer to rely on their intuition; such players so often deviate from the right games that they become losers. Strangely, for real, casino owners have helped on the balance sheet of publishing blackjack systems. Out: Be happy that bad players exist. They are the reason casinos can afford to offer blackjack games that can be beaten. Smile if the person sitting next to you makes a bone-fighting game. Never give advice to other players at the table. A casino can only offer blackjack if it makes money on the game, although it doesn't have to beat every customer. Casinos can afford to have with winning blackjack players only if he has volume of loss of blackjack players. If you play well enough to win, you should be grateful for those players who stand at soft seventeen and make other rough misplays. If you help other people at the table play properly you reduce the casino's ability to afford you. By the mid-1970s, the focus had shifted from trying to make better decisions to trying to beat a winning blackjack in a casino. For good coverage of this theme see Jan Andersen turning the table in Las Vegas. More and more decks were used in blackjack. The double deck and four-deck shoes are widespread, especially in Las Vegas. Then some casinos went to six decks, and up to eight. Northern Nevada has long remained predominantly one deck. Card counters playing against four or more decks usually have to use big bet changes because they have a positive expected winning rate only a small fraction of the time; and the large variation of the bets does not go unnoticed. Only where the rules are so liberal that the basic strategy gives a positive expected winning rate immediately after shuffling can card counters beat the shoe game without big betting changes. The team game, popularized by in The Big Player, involves players at several tables, set small amounts and count cards. When one of these little players finds a high score, a big player signals to come and make big bets. Then came the methods for winning the blackjack, not counting the cards. Winning excluding was the first book to explain the subject. Then came Ken Uston's books, most notably the Million Dollar Blackjack. Then the best book on tells: Steve Forte Read The Dealer. Other major casino countermeasures in recent years are no longer manually checking hole cards under the age of 10. This procedure first appeared at the Nevada Palace in East Las Vegas in May 1981 and quickly spread after it was introduced at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in November 1982. Las Vegas. Dealers at Caesars Palace no longer check their card holes if their upcards are aces. If the card is 10 and the hole card turns out to be an ace, the player loses only the initial bet, not the additional bets on doubles or split. The player loses by twenty-one, except the first two cards, if the dealer has twenty-one cards. If the player wants to surrender against 10, the dealer puts tiddlywink on top of the bet; then, when the card holes are turned on, the entire bet is lost if the dealer has a natural, or half the bet is lost if the dealer does not have a natural. - Current Blackjack News, December 1982 This book explains how to turn blackjack into an investment. It describes a powerful but simple system that has proven to be effective, and makes it simple so that a person who has never been to a casino can learn to win. No magic is required - just skillful work. You can also learn to play play for profit as well as fun. Aside from introducing blackjack to people who don't know any other winning system, this book tells how to play without being seen as a user of the winning system. After all, what good does he do to know how to win if winning helps you get kicked out? Despite the impressive winnings, you can be considered as the preferred customer in those casinos that encourage heavy players. Aside from taking accommodation in free hotel rooms, enjoying free gourmet dinners and happily taking in free floor shows in the world's most luxurious gambling palaces, you can win over the gaming tables of your hosts and hostesses most of the time. If you want to become a card counter, you must have certain abilities. You have to handle simple arithmetic well. You should be able to remember a simple number, such as three, be able to subtract one from that number or add one to that number, and be able to do so quickly. You should be able to divide and multiply roughly. You should be able to remember the numbers tables. If you've ever memorized a multiplication table, you can remember these tables. I used to think you should have good eyesight, but the reader says: I would take issue with one thing. While I'm sure good vision is a definite advantage, I don't think it's necessary. I'm legally blind and I'm still able to keep the score accurate and play the winning game. You have to be in good physical condition because blackjack is as much a physical sport as it is a mental game. The better your physical condition, the more hours a day you will be able to play. Most people can learn to play winning blackjack, but most readers of this book will never make any significant amounts of money in the game. It takes time to learn how to play well, and most people do not want to devote the time needed to develop skills. It's a time requirement lucky. Because of this, most casino employees do not learn how to win in blackjack and can't exactly spot winning system players. Also, so many customers are playing badly that casino owners don't need to change the game. However, for those who learn to count cards quickly and accurately, and who memorize table strategies, other obstacles loom upwards - like money, and boredom, and just time itself. To win money by playing blackjack you have to put in time to play blackjack. The longer you play, the more you can expect to do, but playing blackjack means spending less time on other things. It is possible that switching the time block to a blackjack may end up giving you more free time than you now have to pursue your dreams. Playing professional blackjack much more than just wasing time. It also includes quite a few financial risks. Having an advantage over the dealer doesn't mean you'll win steadily. The player usually loses but sometimes gets lucky Wins the card counter usually wins, but sometimes gets unlucky and loses. Your bankroll won't inch up like a tram, but zoom up and down like a roller coaster. If you can't afford to lose big, don't bet big; and if you can't afford to lose, don't play. You can only expect to win big by making big bets, and if you bet big you're going to lose big - regularly. If you can only afford a small loss, you have to bet small and you can't even win enough to cover your expenses. Of course, you can make a small bet at first and increase the size of the bet as you build a winning bet, but then you run into another problem: boredom. If you are a card counter, you have to be a machine. You are programmed to make decisions almost without thinking. Playing blackjack is exciting for the first weekend, but the next weekend's excitement usually lasts no more than an hour. If the time it takes to study the game doesn't scare you off, and if you're willing to take enough risk to be able to make real money, then boredom will get to you for sure. Those few who really profit from this book are those who can afford to risk financially and emotionally, and who don't mind getting bored as long as they are compensated adequately. Investing in blackjack is like investing in a stock market. Just as a diversified stock portfolio can be expected to become more valuable if enough time passes, the share invested in blackjack can become more valuable if enough hands are played. The stock market is chronically falling, and some of the downturns have been going on for years. The blackjack investor's portfolio is also chronically downs, and some of the downturns last for hundreds of hours of game time. Blackjack outperforms the stock in that it offers a more expected return as a reward for risk. The strategies in this book will surpass intuition. The game of guessing will cost you more than it gets. Every time you have a solution and one choice is superior to all others, you have to make an excellent choice. The tables in this book tell you which choice is higher. If you lose three consecutive double downs and another situation arises in which tables say double down, click more money. Your chances of winning this hand do not affect past successes or failures. The tables in this book are accurate. If you don't believe that the solution recommended by this book is the right one, check it at home or in a hotel room, handing your hands off yourself. For example, if you think that standing at sixteen vs. 7 wins more often, despite the advice in this book, the case is 100 hands in which you stand for sixteen and another 100 in which you are caught; then subtract the number of losses number of wins for each alternative. You'll find that hitting sixteen against 7 is less expensive than standing up. You will gain confidence in this book. Playing the game This section explains how blackjack plays. The work of blackjack is more boring than playing blackjack. The dealer's actions are cut and dried. A set of rules set by the casino decides whether the dealer takes an additional card. The dealer is not trying to defeat you; Rather the dealer must play the hand according to established and publicly proclaimed rules. It doesn't matter to an honest dealer whether your cards face up or face down. An honest dealer has no influence on the outcome of your hand. Greedy dealer roots for you in anticipation of toke if you win and hoping toke even if you lose. You make choices all the time. Casino rules limit your options, but at least you can make decisions that affect the outcome of your hand. Sometimes the two players are firmly at odds on how to play a particular hand. Most of the time, when you have a choice, one alternative is superior to all others. Sometimes the right choice is obvious, but other times the choice that you know to be right looks silly for those who are looking at you. A typical blackjack game goes something like this. You approach the table and notice five to seven small circles or other symbols that look like place markers. In fact, they are places for sacrificial offerings. You bet on the nearest little symbol and say a prayer or something. The dealer shuffles the cards with lightning speed and an exasperated expression and sets the package in front of you. You cut the cards and pray again. The dealer takes the cards and puts them in a box called a shoe. Or if one or two decks are used: With a quick motion called card burning, the dealer removes the top card and places it face up on the bottom of the package or face down in the reset tray. The dealer gives one card face down to each player, one card facing the dealer, the second card facing down to each player, and the second card facing down to the dealer. There are variations; For example, some casinos deal with all the cards players face up. Aces are considered either one or eleven. The face cards counted ten. All other cards count their face amounts. The combination of two ace and 10 cards (meaning 10 or face card) is known as natural or blackjack. If you have a natural you turn both cards face up and smile. A dealer with an ace or 10 up can check the hole card to see if the hand is natural. With any other upcard, an honest dealer has no reason to look at the hole card. The dealer with natural turns both cards face up and yawns. If the dealer has a natural, and you do not, you lose. If you have a natural and the dealer does not, you will happily win one and a half times your bet. If both you and the dealer have straights, you will stop and start swearing, because the money won't stop being in your hands. Most casinos offer insurance, side rates that you can make when the dealer shows an ace. A A showing any other card does not offer insurance. Some casinos never offer insurance, ace or no ace. The insurance rate is almost always limited to half of the original rate. The exception was the Palace in Reno, which in the early 1960s allowed insurance up to the full amount of your rate. If you want to take out insurance, place a new bet before your initial bet. A dealer with a natural (i.e. 10 per hole) pays two to one at the insurance rate. If the dealer does not have a natural, you lose your insurance rate. If both you and the dealer are straight, the insurance rate still wins two to one. If the dealer has a natural, and you do not, the winnings at the insurance rate is equal to the loss on the original hand and no money does not change from hand to hand; hence the insurance tag. Most of the time you won't have a natural and the dealer won't have a natural. Then you have to choose one of several options. The order in which you will consider them: surrender, split the steam, double down, hit or stand. Not all options are available at all casinos. In any casino, however, you may have to make several consistent decisions. Several casinos offer to surrender, and usually only on the first two cards - rarely after hitting or splitting the pair. Early surrender is a capitulation that is allowed before the dealer checks for natural. Late surrender is when you have to wait to surrender until the dealer checks on the natural. If the dealer does not check the card hole, and recognizes your desire to surrender by putting tiddlywink or some such on your cards, and raises the entire bet in case of natural, you play against late capitulation. Late change is more common, but early surrender is more profitable for the player. You give up, saying surrender or take them; I don't want them! or some kind of expression of hopelessness. Dealer than takes your cards and half your bet. You hold the other half of your bet, and sit back to watch, while the other players and dealer finish their hands. By splitting the pair you can split any pair. A pair is two cards with the same point value, such as an Ace, 2-2, etc. For example, you can split the nest and the king in most casinos. The split of the pair is achieved by turning both cards face up and placing an additional bet equal to the first bet of the two rotated cards. Then you have two hands with a bet on each. If you split the Ace, each will receive one - and only one - additional card on each ace. In other words, in most casinos you can't get more than two extra cards after splitting the aces. There are exceptions; Random Casino allows you to resplit aces or a few hits to split aces. If you share any pair, that is, any pair except aces - you ask for extra cards first hand until not satisfied and then move to the second hand hand Ask for additional cards for this until satisfied. If the first additional card for any of the separated pairs is the third of its kind, it can be resplit to make a third hand in most casinos. Resplitting to make four hands is usually allowed, but not resplitting to make five or more hands. Doubling down Doubling down means turning the card face up and placing your original bet extra for the same amount or less. The dealer then gives his hand another card - never more than that, and never less. In most casinos you can double down on the first two cards. Rarely will you find a casino that will double down on three or more cards. In many casinos you can double down on two cards after just splitting the pair. When the text of this book says double down on any first two cards, then you can't double down after the split. In most casinos you can double down on any first two cards, but some casinos limit doubling to certain totals such as ten and eleven only. Hit Hit Hand means getting another card. You signal a blow by scratching the table with your cards. The dealer then inserts another card face up in front of you. Extra scratch brings extra cards. If your first two cards face up, you ask to be hit by scratching the table with your finger or tapping the table in close proximity to the hand that needs a hit. If a hit brings the total number to twenty-two or more with all the aces counting one, your hand is busted. If you are polite you will place your busted face up on the table. If you are impolite you throw your cards at the dealer. Either way you lose and the dealer takes your broken hand and your bet. Stand To stand is to be satisfied with the hand, i.e. not want more cards from the dealer. If the cards have been dealt face down, you indicate your desire to stand by placing your cards face down below your bet. Manners require this to be done without processing the bid. You can touch your bet after receiving the cards to invite suspicion of fraud. If the card faces up, you indicate your decision to stand on shooing an imaginary fly away from your cards. The dealer's hand After all players finish their hands, the dealer turns the hole card and plays the hand in accordance with the preset rules. If the hand is sixteen or less, the dealer takes a punch and continues to beat until the hand is seventeen or more. The dealer cannot split the pairs, double or surrender. Currently, most casinos indicate that their dealers hit a soft seventeen; in the good old days, most dealers stood at a soft seventeen. Just on Golden in Austin, Nevada, I've seen rules that give the dealer the choice of hitting or standing at a soft seventeen. Elsewhere at the dealer's Choice casino rules either indicate a hit or indicate a booth, and all dealers in the casino act in with these rules. After reaching seventeen or more years, the dealer turns your cards face up. If your cards add up closer to twenty-one than that of the dealer, or if the dealer's total is more than twenty-one, the dealer pays you even the money. If the total dealer's amount is closer to twenty-one without going over, you lose. In the case of a draw, the money does not change from hand to hand; that's called a push. After settling the winnings, the dealer takes the used cards and places them on the bottom of the package or in the tray on the card used. Time for the next round. Put another offering on the sacrificial place and pray again. This time the dealer does not shuffle, does not offer a deck for the cut and does not burn the card. Rather, the next round is dispersed with unused cards. This procedure has many minor variations. In some casinos, dealers do not check the card hole to see if the hand is natural. One deck can be used, or two or more decks can be shuffled together. Cards can be held by the dealer or handed over from shoes. Used cards can be placed at the bottom of the package or stacked on a table or placed in a chip rack. One or more players can fight against one dealer at the same table; Every player tries to defeat the dealer. The player can play more than one hand. Players' naturals can be paid immediately or after the dealer's hand is finished. The dealer can shuffle after each second round or halfway through the package or not until most of the cards have been used. You will come across other minor variations from casino to casino. The dealer will deal several rounds between shuffling, but usually won't start a new round with less than 26 cards (single-deck games) or 52 cards (multi-deck games). With one deck and four or more betting points, you can plan for two rounds for shuffling; With one deck and three-point bet, you usually get three rounds for shuffling. With less than three betting points, or with multiple decks, you get more than three rounds for shuffling. Blackjack is the only casino game in which dealer procedures and player options vary so much from casino to casino. This book covers almost all past and present blackjack rules. To keep up with what rules and conditions of the game are currently offered in American casinos, you can consider the current Blackjack News, published monthly since 1979. Another good source of information is blackjack sites on the Internet, including the Pi Yee Press site, BJ21.com. Dealer action on Soft 17 Some of the tables in this book were obtained for dealer stands at soft seventeen, and some were obtained for dealer hits soft seventeen. The abbreviation is used to distinguish between two: s17 means that the dealer stands on a soft and h17 means dealer hits soft seventeen. Pack and Deck This book uses a deck to mean 52 cards, and pack means a collection of cards that may or may not contain exactly 52 cards. Teh Teh For this use is to make tips on counting cards unequivocally: count on the deck means to count on 52 cards. Strategies for one and more decks, when I first conceived to write this book, my intention was to include rooms making for one deck, two decks, and four decks. I quickly discovered that the double-deck rooms making are almost identical to the four-deck rooms. Similarly, the solution numbers adapted to six or eight decks are essentially identical to the numbers for the four decks. Thus, one set of number-making is enough for two or more decks. So I changed my plan and I present solutions numbers for one and more decks. Rooms with multiple decks were created using four decks, but I would get almost the same numbers if I used two, six or eight decks instead of four. Multiple numbers for some solutions Some solutions have more than one number associated with them. For example, sometimes at 4-4 correctly beat on very low calculations, double at very high scores and split by intermediate calculations. Where this complication exists, the text provides a proper explanation. Another example: With a soft eighteen you can stand, you can hit, or you can double down. This complication is usually handled by having two lines in the table, one for a stand against a double and one for hitting against the stand. Win Prices This book contains numerous winning bets. Their purpose is to help understand the importance of different rule options. This book assumes that decisions are made on the basis of the expected cost, also called the expected victory. Whether the action is right or wrong on one isolated hand doesn't matter. The important thing is that the average result will be more than a thousand and thousands of such decisions. A positive expected winning ratio means you are expected to win in the long run, and a negative expected winning rate means you will lose in the long run. For example, if the expected winning rate is -0.5%, you are expected to lose with a rate of 0.5%. Here's a question from the reader. I like it because the answer to it is a good example of what this book is all about. I like the idea of starting two new hands professional blackjack stanford wong pdf. professional blackjack stanford wong pdf download

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