An Old Offer Re-vamped

They don't make 'em like they used to.

There are many books on Blackjack that could help you.  “Beat The Dealer” by Edward O. Thorp turned the popular game of Blackjack into the phenomenon that it is today.  Before the discovery of Blackjack’s hidden strategy, people just passed it off as a fool’s bet where the player had no stake in how the game turned out.  In truth, those people could not have been more wrong.  Today, Blackjack is one of the most strategically rich playing experiences that a player can engage in because of the fact that Blackjack gives the player the ability to theoretically turn the odds in his or her favor as long as the person playing uses the advanced strategy in the right manner.  After the initial popularity boom that Blackjack experienced in the ‘60s, it replaced craps as the single most popular game in Las Vegas. 

 

The average patron was so obsessed with making big money of the game by card counting that the casinos had to produce methods that would detour players from ever thinking about engaging in that advanced practice.  Although the practice of card counting is legal, it did not stop the Griffin Detective Agency from selling mug shots to casinos of suspected card counters.  While it is also true that the majority of card counters do not play a winning game, it was still important to the brick and mortar casino business to make sure that no one even thinks about it.  The brick and mortar casino industry has spent countless amounts of money in a constant effort to counter act card counters, even though card counters have never really posed that much of a legitimate threat.