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Once our season begins, individual batting practice is almost impossible to provide, as pitchers are just not available. Historically, baseball pitching machines have not been used because hitters complained that their timing was destroyed.

To the public at large, one of the most incomprehensible things about professional blackjack strategies is hole-card play. Hole-card play is not a single strategy, but a whole range of strategies.

The phenomenal growth in the casino industry that occurred in Nevada through¬out the 1960s and '70s as a direct result of the popularity of Ed Thorp's Beat the Dealer, had the East Coast politicians and business leaders buzzing with...

On April Fools Day, 1984, two players in Las Vegas were arrested at the Marina Casino for using a concealed video camera to peek at the dealer’s hole card. This device was yet another of Keith Taft’s inventions.

World Golf Headlines July 24 - 27thPGA Tour Reavie takes Canadian Open for first PGA Tour win Chez Reavie was asked what he planned to buy first after his $900,000 windfall in the Canadian Open.

In 1978, Resorts International opened in Atlantic City, the first legal East Coast casino in the twentieth century. Their four- and six-deck blackjack games offered a new form of surrender, dubbed by card counters as "early surrender,"...

In 1977, Ken Uston's first book, The Big Player, became a best seller for Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. Co-authored with professional writer Roger Rapaport, this was the book that taught the public at large, and casino industry insiders, how Al...

Every card counter quickly learns about the dreaded Griffin books. Initially, it was just a single book. Now, in its fifth "volume," the Griffin books are a virtual library of photos and information about professional casino gamblers.

Peter was the math genius who first proposed using the mathematical shortcuts developed by statisticians for estimating answers to highly complex problems in analyzing and comparing blackjack card-counting systems.

In 1975, Stanford Wong came out with Professional Blackjack. Wong had a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University, hence his pseudonym. This book was the next big advance for card counters.