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Online Blackjack News - Blackjack - The Most Controversial Game in the Casinos
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Today's blackjack nevertheless remains the one casino game that players can "handicap" in much the same way that horse players study the races. In horse racing parlance, a horse's future can be judged by his past. When playing blackjack, it is possible to use information collected from past deals out of any one shoe to predict with an escalating degree of accuracy what will happen in the remaining deals.
Using what has become known as "basic strategy" when playing blackjack gives the player an edge founded not on empirical knowledge, but rather sound mathematical principles and probability. If you take this one step further by using a card-counting technique, you can increase your advantage over other players even further.
Future throws of the dice or spins of the roulette wheel are totally independent of what happened in the past. Not so with blackjack. That's why casino supervisors will not allow anyone to take paper and pencil to the blackjack table with them. If you're going to use your head when playing the game, you must keep your knowledge in your head.
Scores of gaming writers have written books and articles about blackjack, capitalizing on the perception among the public at large that the game is close to being beatable if you use maximum strategy, keep a running count of the cards, and have a bankroll sufficient in size to stretch out over the long haul. Short-term results, even with top of the line play, can put you in the red.
But there's one nationally recognized gaming authority who insists blackjack is not worth playing! In fact, he advises people NOT to play the game. That gentleman's name is John Patrick, a New Jersey-based writer and lecturer. He has forged a reputation that goes back at least two decades on being the gaming world's "Lone Ranger".
Patrick insists he can play the game to perfection. He's a self-professed expert card counter. But he prefers not to play blackjack. It's not our purpose here to certify his theories, or on the other hand, debunk them. Patrick himself realizes that people are still going to play the game in spite of what he says, so he has written books about how he feels the game should be played if you insist on playing it. His gut feelings about the game are refreshingly off-the-wall.
Patrick insists that no matter how you play, it's money management that ultimately keeps you alive. In that regard, he has many interesting theories on money management techniques while playing craps, roulette, and baccarat. Sure, he's going against the advice of other experts, but Patrick insists that "house vig" is way overemphasized when it comes to making money in the casino. |
| Source:
Blackjack2002 News Staff
| Tuesday, 28 August 2007 |
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