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Online Blackjack News - Card Counting in Blackjack
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Even if you look the world over, it is almost guaranteed that you will never find a gambler who comes to the casino, waiting to lose their money. The dream of outwitting the casino is as old as gambling itself. Every gambler wants to win. Every other invents his own "system". Every hundredth attempts to carefully analyze the game. And only the few of millions succeed. The most famous “system” against the casino is that of card counting. Car counting is a mathematically based method used to gain an edge over the casino.
Probably the first person in history who applied mathematic analysis to the game blackjack was Jess Marcum (originally Marcovitch) was born on 30th December 1919. It all began in early 1950, when Marcum, a theorist in physics noticed that there was more than meets the eye in blackjack, and that victory depended on more than just luck and intuition. In order to find the system he began to analyze the game from the bottom up. Marcum’s attempts were unique in the he used no technology, merely writing down calculations on paper. In the second place, he did find the answer!
Ten years before anyone else had thought of it, Marcum developed the basic blackjack strategy. The way he played, the house edge was actually turn around, and he had an advantage of 3% over the casino! Winning at every casino he played in, Marcum was shown in papers as the luckiest man on the planet, yet he did not divulge his secret.
Jess Marcum also went down in history as probably the first to man to be thrown out of a casino. He has been living in Las Vegas for a year, and although the casino did not understand the system as he played it at the time, they did band together and refused to receive him. He subsequently moved to Reno, where the same thing happened after six months. After a string of incredible “luck,” he was banned from the casino there as well.
One thing is known for sure- in fact, Jess Marcum started the war between the gamblers and casinos in blackjack, that is still going on and getting more and more strained. He did not share his calculations with anyone, and completely gave up playing against casinos after other authors published books on how to beat the casino at card counting.
Jess Marcum died in 1992, at the age of 72. |
| Source:
Blackjack2002 News Staff
| Monday, 6 August 2007 |
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