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Kevin Blackwood is a professional blackjack player, card counter and gambling author. He is best known for his novel, The Counter, and his instructional book, Play Blackjack Like the Pros. Blackwood has played in the World Series of Blackjack [2] [3] and the Ultimate Blackjack Tour, a televised 10-week blackjack tournament airing on CBS. [4] [5]
Blackjack Forum was a trade journal for professional blackjack players, founded in 1981 and published by Arnold Snyder. [1] Originally a 100-page quarterly journal, it expanded into an online forum [2] which is frequented by professional gamblers, attorneys, industry people, mathematicians, and other aficionados.
John Ferguson (born 1943), known by his pen name, Stanford Wong, is a gambling author best known for his book Professional Blackjack, first published in 1975.Wong's computer program "Blackjack Analyzer", initially created for personal use, was one of the first pieces of commercially available blackjack odds analyzing software.
In Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would be King, a British soldier named Daniel Dravot schemes to become king of a remote area of Afghanistan. Today, a 63-year-old retired real estate developer ...
Arnold Snyder (c. 1960 — 6 June 2023) [1] was a professional gambler and gambling author. He was elected by professional blackjack players as one of the seven original inductees into the Blackjack Hall of Fame – hosted at Barona Casino [2] [3] – for his contributions as a blackjack player and his innovations in professional gambling techniques.
The meticulous training process included requiring them to pass the MIT Blackjack team's rigorous Big Player test (the "BP Checkout"). From 2007-2012, Tilton and D.A. went on to flourish independently as a two-person team, melding a variety of playing methodologies together into a multi-strategic approach to blackjack advantage play.
He moved to Las Vegas where he won an additional $100,000 playing blackjack around the clock. Later, he moved on to play in casinos across Europe, Australia, and Asia. [7] Woods retired from professional blackjack in 1982 and focused on horse betting in Hong Kong due to the small pool of horses. There, he met Bob Moore and Bill Benter.
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