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- From: hall@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Michael Hall)
- Subject: Re: BJ - good reading material
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- In article <1er1jsINN2tt@oak3.doc.ic.ac.uk> kcw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kim Chung Wong) writes:
- >
- >I was wondering if anyone could recommend any good books on the more
- >advanced BlackJack systems
-
- Sure:
-
- "Blackbelt in Blackjack" by Arnold Snyder
- "Million Dollar Blackjack" by Ken Uston
- "Professional Blackjack" by Stanford Wong
-
- >that include complete and thorough mathematical analyses of the systems.
-
- Oh. Then forget my suggestions above. I don't think there are any such
- books. I don't even think "Theory of Blackjack" by Peter Griffin has what
- you want. Epstein's "Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic" has some
- meaty tables on the 10's count, and some on high-low, neither of which
- is an "advanced blackjack system". Most books, and the rec.gambling FAQ,
- do contain tables of the betting correlations and playing efficiencies as
- well as some (disceiving) advantage statistics from simulations, but this
- doesn't strike me as "complete and thorough mathematical analyses".
-
- >I am intending to carry out various simulations based on these systems.
-
- If all you want is confirmation, then post your results on rec.gambling;
- rec.gamblers will flame you severely if your results disagree with theirs.
-
- --
- Michael Hall \ Of course, "New Blackjack" by E. Clifton Davis and
- NASA Ames Research Center\ Jerry Patterson is backed by a complete and
- hall@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov \ thorough mathematical analysis. :-)
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