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Blackjack Strategies

When it comes to blackjack strategies there are too many to be mentioned here alone. The right thing to do is to first tell the story of how it all began and evolved. It all started in 1957 when Roger Baldwin, Wilbert Cantey, Herbert Maisel, and James McDermott first wrote the all time famous book "Playing Blackjack To Win". These four mathematic geniuses were the first to form a mathematic method to card counting which made a whole revolution in the gambling community.

The blackjack winning book disappearence

This book that was released in the late 50's has been one of the greatest things that happened to blackjack. The book has form a new tradition of strategies around the game. This book however , was nearly printed and is very rare to find nowadays, almost a collecter's book. This fact makes you wonder why such a genius work didn't last and was almost forgotten, has this anything to do with the fact that most casino owners did not appreciate what this brought to the general public? I can't say for certain, but I wouldn't say this is an unlikely explanation,. This book bring out the first valid card counting system ever published for casino blackjack

Card counting Systems

Thorp’s Beat the Dealer which came later had much more attention drawn to it , and was considered the real breaking news. These books from the 50's and 60's were the first to grasp the concept of a card counting system that brought this kind of knowledge to the common crowds. Ever since that time strategies has evolved much and there were formed many more than for most casino games .

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