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The best strategies combined with money management can extend your play time By Frank Scoblete There is a written acknowledgement concerning casino games (you can listen to it in the beginning of the movie Casino) and it is this: The longer you play the better chance you will be losing. The reason this has […]
Ways to battle the house edge By Frank Scoblete The outstanding television series Breaking Bad had some horrifying things to tell us about being addicted to methamphetamine— popularly known as speed. In the show, speed certainly isn’t good for the poor souls using it. Speed, to put it bluntly, kills a person’s personality and […]
A blackjack dealer’s perspective on ego, bias and missed opportunities By Al O’Grady As a blackjack dealer, I have seen a vast array of characters that have come to my table. They come in all shapes and sizes, young and old, highly intelligent to incredibly foolish, and they all have different bankroll sizes. As […]
Unveiling the Top 10 mistakes made at the blackjack table By Al O’Grady This is the third article of a three-part series summarizing mistakes that players make at the table. Let’s quickly review the top ten mistakes. 10 – Not having a plan; not having a goal 09 – Lack of self-discipline – win […]
The pitfalls and perils By Frank Scoblete In the world of casino playing, there are good players and there are bad players. The good players use the lowest house edge bets at the games they play and keep their betting in an easily handled way with no horrors of worrying about losing their houses, […]
Unveiling the Top 10 Mistakes Players Make at the Blackjack Table By Al O’Grady To be perfectly blunt, there are so many mistakes that players make I cannot list them all in the space provided for me. So, this is the first of three articles on the subject. As a blackjack dealer for a […]
To tip or not to tip the dealer By Al O’Grady Let’s assume for a second that you are having a winning session at the blackjack table. Do you tip the dealer? If so, how much? If not, why not? This is a very contentious issue, and everyone has his or her own opinion. […]
A better understanding of the basics can mean a world of difference By Henry Tamburin In the world of blackjack, knowledge is power, especially for novices eager to try their hand at the tables. Reprinted from the October 2014 edition of Casino Player magazine, the timeless wisdom shared here serves as a vital compass […]
How blackjack changed the course of one man’s life By Frank Scoblete Say “hi” to Professor Symington D. Delray, a blackjack player for several years. Professor Delray used to work for a wellknown university in New Jersey, just outside New York City, until his retirement in 2018—weeks before the pandemic shut many of us […]
A complete guide to index play By Don Schlesinger As with so many of the ambitious blackjack projects I have directed over my career, the article that you are about to read summarizes the result—The Hi-Lo Card Counting System: A Complete Guide to Index Play—of an incredible amount of sophisticated computer programming and simulations […]