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Off Topic - recommended blackjack book(s)

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10c. Re: Off Topic - recommended blackjack book(s)
Posted by: "Victoria Rosado" ros4144@yahoo.com ros4144
Date: Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:51 pm ((PDT))

Professional
Blackjack by Sanford Wong.

Agree 100% - discusses everything from basic strategy and simple count systems to very advanced count systems. Personally, I recommend simple plus/minus count, bet variation to the extent you can get away with it, and after you master that, adding some play variations by the count for more common hands. "Cover" (avoiding heat / getting barred) is covered, but the casinos have much more advanced technology to detect counters now, and this is NOT covered, and is really a significant problem for card counters.

More advanced count systems are complex and add only a small additional edge; similar to starting to use penalty cards in VP. Mostly require too much additional concentration. If you can come up with an act that will let you get away with more bet variation, that will be worth more than anything.

--BG

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#2

I agree, also. "Professional Blackjack" is the bible to pro bj
players. The www.bj21.com website is also a good place to spend
some time once you can sort out the more useful posters. (MathProf,
bigplayer, DD', Math Boy, are a few that come quickly to mind.)

If you want a second book, either of Arnold Snyder's books are worth
reading: "The Big Book of Blackjack" and "Blackbelt in Blackjack".

--Dunbar

> 10c. Re: Off Topic - recommended blackjack book(s)
> Posted by: "Victoria Rosado" ros4144@... ros4144
> Date: Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:51 pm ((PDT))
>
> Professional
> Blackjack by Sanford Wong.
>

Agree 100% - discusses everything from basic strategy and simple

count systems to very advanced count systems. Personally, I
recommend simple plus/minus count, bet variation to the extent you
can get away with it, and after you master that, adding some play
variations by the count for more common hands. "Cover" (avoiding
heat / getting barred) is covered, but the casinos have much more
advanced technology to detect counters now, and this is NOT covered,
and is really a significant problem for card counters.

More advanced count systems are complex and add only a small

additional edge; similar to starting to use penalty cards in VP.
Mostly require too much additional concentration. If you can come
up with an act that will let you get away with more bet variation,
that will be worth more than anything.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, b.glazer@... wrote:

--BG

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#3

I recommend "Golden Touch BJ Revolution." I reviewed the book in a Frugal Fridays column: http://tinyurl.com/2a6o88.

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