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2. Card counting - Wikipedia

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   Printable version; In other projects ... Card counting is a blackjack strategy used to determine ... As more casinos have switched games to dealer hits soft-17 and ...

3. Blackjack - Wikipedia

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   Pontoon, twenty-one, Siebzehn und Vier, vingt-et-un. Blackjack (formerly black jack and vingt-un) is a casino banking game. [1]: 342 It is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. It uses decks of 52 cards and descends from a global family of casino banking games known as "twenty-one".

4. Edward O. Thorp - Wikipedia

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   Edward Oakley Thorp (born August 14, 1932) is an American mathematics professor, author, hedge fund manager, and blackjack researcher. He pioneered the modern applications of probability theory, including the harnessing of very small correlations for reliable financial gain. Thorp is the author of Beat the Dealer, which mathematically proved ...

5. Colin Jones (blackjack player) - Wikipedia

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   Colin Jones is an American blackjack card-counting expert, teacher, and entrepreneur. He was a founder and manager of The Church Team, a successful blackjack card-counting team based in Seattle, Washington, which won approximately 3.2 million dollars from casinos between 2006 and 2011. [1]

6. Shoe (cards) - Wikipedia

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   Shoe (cards) A dealing shoe or dealer's shoe is a gaming device, mainly used in casinos, to hold multiple decks of playing cards. The shoe allows for more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles and less chance of dealer cheating. [1] In some games, such as blackjack (where card counting is a possibility), using multiple decks ...

7. Ken Uston - Wikipedia

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   Ken Uston. Ken Uston (January 12, 1935 – September 19, 1987) was an American blackjack player, strategist and author, credited with popularizing the concept of team play at blackjack. [2] During the early to mid-1970s he gained widespread notoriety for perfecting techniques to do team card counting in numerous casinos worldwide, earning ...

8. Glossary of blackjack terms - Wikipedia

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   When the dealer shows an ace and the player has a blackjack, the player can opt for even money and get paid immediately at 1:1. This is a version of insurance rather than a different bet. If the dealer has blackjack, the hand is a push, but the player receives twice the value of the insurance, which is the same as the original bet.

9. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (blackjack) - Wikipedia

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   Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is the name given by gambling authors [1][2] to the four U.S. Army engineers who first discovered in the 1950s the best playing strategy in the casino game of Blackjack that can be formulated on the basis of the player's and the dealer's cards. The so-called Basic Strategy, which was subsequently refined through ...